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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...
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Doctor of Philosophy
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Abstract: Purpose ? The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between organisational support for career development (OSCD) and employees' career satisfaction. Based on an extended model of social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and an integrative model of proactive behaviours, the...
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firm however human resource management (HRM) in individual clustered firms has received scant attention. This paper …’s boundaries. The paper concludes that HRM can assist in generating rents for firms and clusters more broadly when the function …
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There is little research on HRM practices in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs), especially in comparison to that … conducted in traditional production environments. Whether such HRM practices are appropriate for KIFs, particularly ones that … differentiate themselves on their ability to innovate, is the basis of this research. The study investigates the HRM practices being …
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Headcount reporting is supposed to be a simple counting process with a tangible outcome. However, counting the "number of people a business employs on a global basis" is not as straightforward as it should be. In one recent case, a corporate human resources (HR) report showed that the company's...
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The 21" century business environment is dominated by unprecedented change across a broad spectrum of social, economic, technological and cultural factors (Nowotny, Scott & Gibbons 2001). Among these, two broad trends -economic globalisation and rising knowledge intensity (Hart 2006)have come to...
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Effective people management is essential to successful innovation, however no single human resource function or practice can facilitate the development of innovation capacity in an organization. Several studies have argued that different bundles or configurations of human resource practices can...
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critical issue for ensuring sustained innovation capacity. The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) in KIFs is … HRM practices that support innovation. To this end, the paper includes reviews of the literature relevant to HRM and … role of HRM in KIFs. More specifically, the findings from this study suggest that while there are commonalities between HRM …
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The proficient human resource management of employees and their contribution to small business is commonly accepted as contributing to Australia’s future prosperity (Schaper 2000). Effective recruitment, selection and retention of employees are part of the employment relationship and can...
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