Betriebliche Arbeitsgruppen sind eine in der deutschen Industrie häufig anzutreffende Form der Fertigungsorganisation. Betrachtet man die innerbetriebliche Organisation aus der Sicht der Neuen Institutionenökonomik, so kann man die Arbeitsgruppe als eine Institution verstehen, mit deren Hilfe...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between psychological capital and performance and to identify work family spillover and psychological well-being as a mediator of the effects of psychological capital on performance. Data was gathered from 361 white-collar employees...

Training and skill development represents a process in progress during the whole career and involves specialized training both within the organization and throughout the professional and social environment. Notion of skill/ com-petence has been the object of investigation for many sciences....

Due to the intensifying “war for talent”, companies are increasingly looking to position themselves as attractive employers. They are also increasingly communicating their global talent management (GTM) programs through their websites and job advertisements. However, to date, there is a...

The erosion of standard forms of employment is creating new needs and management requirements in organizations. This article examines the polarization within the workforce. The classical approach of the core and marginal workforce based on the work of Doeringer and Piore (1971) will be reshaped...

Opinion – Gift, ungratefulness and management. Suicide and desengagement at work The gift theory as it was elaborated by Mauss and his successors helps to understand that the plant represents a place of social ties production, as well as a place for goods production. These ties, which produce...

What is the role of co-evolution in a population of firms’ adaptation to a hostile environment ? To answer this question, the network sociology is revisited starting from the Kauffman’s biological computer model. A qualitative methodology is used, updating the mechanisms of exploitation and...

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

Currently, telework stands a s one of the fastest developing illustrations of the so called virtual organization. Although it has started to boom in Europe, it still raises reluctance in companies that may implement it in their teams. One main reason listed in the literature for this reluctance...