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...

In Sachsen könnte bis zum Jahr 2030 für jeden vierten älteren Beschäftigten passend ausgebildeter Nachwuchs fehlen. Dies ergeben Berechnungen des ifo Instituts für das Sächsische Staatsministerium der Finanzen. Demnach dürften Akademikerstellen schwieriger nachzubesetzen sein als Stellen,...

The increasing overload of information that bothers people is affecting businesses on online job boards as well. Although there is no doubt about the benefits of those platforms, companies are threatened to get lost in the sheer mass of similar advertisements. Considering the background of the...

Das ifo Institut befragte im Auftrag der WirtschaftsWoche rund 600 Manager aus den Wirtschaftsbereichen Industrie, Bau, Handel und Dienstleistung nach ihren Einschätzungen der konjunkturellen Entwicklung im Jahr 2013 sowie zu ihren Investitions- und Beschäftigungsplänen für das neue Jahr....

In this paper, we propose a general model for various scheduling problems that occur in container terminal logistics. The scheduling model consists of the assignment of jobs to resources and the temporal arrangement of the jobs subject to precedence constraints and sequence-dependent setup...

Small firms often do not change their number of employees from year to year. This paper investigates the role of adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at...