I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

Human resource (HR) management is one of an organisation's most important core activities. As new technologies and software applications spread, it is important to recognise that human resource management must also mature and, to this end, must apply new technological guidelines. Artificial...

The author reviews some specific ways in which human resource professionals can assist management in managing other salaried professionals.

The field of talent management (TM) has grown over the last two decades, and much theoretical and methodological progress has been made in an effort to better conceptualize the field. Despite these efforts, the construction of knowledge within TM research has ignored power and gender dynamics....

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...

Die Personalökonomik ist eine recht junge (Teil-)Disziplin, die (mikro-)ökonomische Methoden und Erkenntnisse auf die betriebliche Personalfunktion anwendet. Sie ist wissenschaftlich fruchtbar und ist komplementär zu anderen disziplinären Zugängen zu Personalproblemen, während ein...

This paper examines the question, whether the growing use of new technologies and decentralized forms of work organization affects the age structure of workforces within firms. The initial idea behind this relationship is that technological and organizational change may not only be skill-biased,...

Human Resource Management (HRM) ist trotz umfangreicher Diskussion in der amerikanischen, britischen und deutschsprachigen Literatur ein schillernder Begriff geblieben, mit dem unterschiedliche Phänomene und Konzepte verbunden werden. Auch Versuche, den ökonomischen Erfolg des HRM messbar zu...

Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes "Lokale Strategien für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung" des europäischen Forschungsprojekts TRUSTEE ("Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and Ecosystem services') beschrieben. Vor dem Hintergrund...

The aim of the article is a descriptive approach and present the growing importance of the - talent management concept in enterprises. The discussed issues were to explain the definition, the essence and objectives of talent management and visualize them on the background of the changes caused...