In knowledge based economy, soft skills format pro-active and entrepreneurial behaviors. Once they provide answers to complex company questions, the academic curriculum should highlight a diversity of skills in graduates to build an open and flexible mind to uncertain and volatile market...

Environmental wastes can be a symptom of a suboptimal system. can help the company to reduce waste and improve environmental performance leading to increased system productivity. Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very...

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...

National employment systems are changing primarily through the activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In order to understand in how far national employment systems are susceptible to change, we revisit important quantitative empirical studies published since 1994 on the transfer of...

This paper explores the level of student employability skill, and identifies factors that influence international mobility. The findings would help forecast employment trajectories of new graduates in the Southeast Asia labor market. The information will be especially useful for seven...

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members learn that lay-offs will occur at a fixed future date,...

In this work, we analyse the participation, self-management, interdependence of objectives, work satisfaction and competitive and co-operative behaviours both with Work Teams and individual Work Teams. The objective of the investigation is to demonstrate that Work Teams increase the...

In der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik werden teils explizit, stets aber zumindest implizit Fragen des Personalmanagements (mit-)diskutiert. Die Profession der Personalmanager indes hat sich lange Zeit nicht besonders intensiv mit normativen Fragen des Personalmanagements auseinandergesetzt....

This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...