Technological optimistic voices assume that, from a technical perspective, the IT possibilities for HRM are endless: in principal all HR processes can be supported by IT. E-HRM is the relatively new term for this IT supported HRM, especially through the use of web technology. This paper aims at...

Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war es, eine systematische Bestandsaufnahme zum Status quo der Personalforschung im Kulturbereich vorzunehmen. In die Untersuchung einbezogen wurden Studien, die sich empirisch mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen und im deutsch- und englischsprachigen Raum in...

Human resource management is experiencing a time of great changes and is, thereby, facing new challenges and roles. It is no longer enough merely to adapt to the ongoing changes. Instead human resource management needs to increase its concern of how to create the future. Old beliefs, thinking...

The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...

This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locallyowned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational...

This paper is concerned with examining the implications of inter-organisational relationships for human resource management (HRM). To date much of the literature on human resource management has been inwardly focussed on the organisation and its employees. Yet increasingly complex organisational...

A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article - in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies of...

Social systems theory as developed by Niklas Luhmann is an option for the theoretical foundation of Human Resource Management (HRM). After clarifying the advantages of using a grand (social) theory as the basic theoretical perspective, the roots of this social systems theory - the deterministic...

This paper uses insights and data gained from 15 years of involvement in a research network studying HRM developments in Europe to explore the notion of 'European HRM' and the meanings of convergence and divergence in HRM Using data from the last decade of the Cranet research, the paper puts...

In this article, we compare the effects of 'high performance human resource management' (HPHR) on employee and company performance between Ireland and the Netherlands. Key hypotheses are, first, that companies using the HPHR system exhibit higher levels of employee and company performance than...