Purpose: To shed some light on the motivational profile of Entrepreneurial as opposed to Professional CEOs in Greece.Design/methodology/approach: Based on McClelland's motivational patterns i.e. power, achievement and affiliation, as well as responsibility; interviews with Greek entrepreneurial...

Purpose --To shed some light on the motivationalprofile of entrepreneurial as opposed to professional CEOs in Greece. Design/methodology/approach -- Based on McClelland's motivational patterns,i.e., power, achievement and affiliation, as well as responsibility; interviewswith Greek...

Η πληθώρα προελεύσεων των συγγραφέων είναι ενδεικτική της απήχησης και εμβέλειας του έργου και της συνεισφοράς της τιμώμενης καθηγήτριας.Τα κεφάλαια...

Subjective career success continues to be a critical topic in careers scholarship due to ever changing organizational and societal contexts that make reliance upon external definitions of success untenable or undesirable. While various measures of subjective career success have been developed,...

Employee training plays a crucial role in the success of most organizations. Due to its developmental aspect, training is closely linked to core competencies and strategic focus. However, it is also one of the most widely outsourced HR functions in most western economies. This paper attempts to...

This study examines the effect of collectivism and humane orientation, as organizational culture dimensions, upon employees' organizational commitment and job satisfaction. A survey to 649 white collar workers from 78 organizations was run in Greece during the crisis and data were analyzed with...

In this paper, we examine how benefits awarded by organizations to employees, as a way to increase their employment revenues, have changed during the last decade in Europe. To do so, we use empirical data from two research rounds (1999 and 2009) of the CRANET research project in 15 countries.In...

Purpose: In this paper we attempt to identify the challenges posed to business leaders from major global demographic changes expected in the workforce composition, such as higher participation of women and more active involvement of elder and more experienced people in the future...

Purpose: Outsourcing is gaining considerable popularity in the field of business services and management. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the practice of outsourcing human resource management (HRM) functions, such as training, staffing, rewards and restructuring, in...

This paper focuses on the occurrence of the workplace bullying phenomenon in Greece. Although a significant amount and level of research has been realised in Nordic countries and the UK, there is scarce research in other European countries (France and Germany), while there is no research...