Human resource management has always faced a fundamental paradox: Top managers in any company will readily agree that the people are the keys to the success, but few believe they know whether their people are well managed or if they are prepared to fortify and enhance the transformations facing...

The present study attempted to provide a constructive replication and extension of a study on managerial job search completed by Bretz, Boudreau, and Judge (1994). Beyond examining the same variables as Bretz et al. (1994), the effects of personality, cognitive ability, challenge and hindrance...

This paper does not recommend a measurement system, nor a particular set of HRM measures. Rather, our purpose is to suggest a framework of thinking about human value and business measurement that may guide future measurement efforts.

This paper introduces human resources management, and shows why it is so important in modern organizations. It will help you understand who human resource management affects your future, and that of your organization.

The multiple uses of performance appraisal (PA) have been the focus of much research, often yielding conflicting findings and conclusions. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of separating PA uses on employee attitudes and behavioral intentions. An untreated control group...

For SHRM to advance, it must eventually be based on a theory that specifies not only concepts and relationships, but appropriate and high-quality measures to express and test them. For metrics to advance beyond simply a large inventory of potentially-useful indices with no integrating logic or...

The present study investigated the degree to which traits from the five-factor model of personality (often termed the "Big five") and cognitive ability were associated with several dimensions of extrinsic (salary, number of promotions, job level) and intrinsic (job satisfaction, life...

Absenteeism research has often been criticized for using inappropriate analysis. Characristics of absence of data, notably that it is usually truncated and Skewed. Violate assumptions of OLS regresion; however, OLS and correlation analysis remain the dominant models of absenteeism research.

Our review of the evidence suggests that the claims of the advocates of standards and examination based reform of American secondary education may be right. The countries and Canadian provinces with such systems outperform other countries at comparable levels of development. In addition, New...