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An analysis of cultural shifts - the examples of Luxembourg, France, Germany
Schinzel, Ursula - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 2/3, pp. 308-326
The purpose of this research is to investigate the cultural shifts in Hofstede's cultural dimensions individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, long-term orientation, indulgence versus restraint, and monumentalism in Luxembourg, France and Germany. The design of the...
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Human Resource Management And The Search For The Happy Workplace
Peccei, R.E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004
(OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Department of Management at King’s College London. His research … interests include the study of the impact of HRM on organisational performance and employee well-being, the transformation of … macro-micro-macro relationships in OB and HRM. Within this perspective, together with colleagues from King’s, Birkbeck …
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Creating ethical organisational cultures by managing the reactive and proactive workplace bully
Hood, Jacqueline N.; Jacobson, Kathryn J.L.; III, Harry … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 1, pp. 29-41
Organisations in the current economic climate might conclude incorrectly that being hard and even abusive to employees will serve a useful purpose. However, we will argue that organisations that will survive the current economic turbulence are those that follow ethical principles by managing...
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Personnel Economics: Strengths, Weaknesses and Its Place in Human Resource Management
Dilger, Alexander - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 4, pp. 331-343
Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro)economic methodology and insights to the personnel function of companies. It is scientifically fertile and complementary to other disciplinary approaches to personnel issues. Instead of that, an approach without...
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TQM and service quality: a survey of commercial banking industry in Malaysia
Sit, Wen-Yi; Ooi, Keng-Boon; Loke, Siew-Phaik; Han, … - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 3 (2011) 1, pp. 78-91
The objective of this paper is to examine the association between Total Quality Management (TQM) practices and service quality in Malaysia's commercial banking industry. This study is based on empirical data collected from a survey of 101 middle management employees of 20 commercial banks in...
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Human Resource Management And The Search For The Happy Workplace
Peccei, Peccei, R.E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
(OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Department of Management at King’s College London. His research interests … include the study of the impact of HRM on organisational performance and employee well-being, the transformation of work and …-micro-macro relationships in OB and HRM. Within this perspective, together with colleagues from King’s, Birkbeck College and the London School …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837404
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The serving organisation and leadership for sustainable human development
Szilas, Roland Ferenc - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 1, pp. 28-39
resource management models. Two influential HRM models (the Michigan model and the Harvard model) are described in detail, with … these HRM models the author proposes the introduction of a more complex anthropological basis for HRM that includes ideas …
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Human resource excellence in software industry in India: an exploratory study
Prasad, P. Arun; Kamalanabhan, T.J. - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 2 (2010) 4, pp. 316-330
To explore the significant role of human resource practices in Indian software industry, in-depth interviews were conducted with heads and senior human resource managers. The interview questions for this study were structured broadly on human resource practices such as staffing, training and...
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Performance appraisal in the Chinese state-owned coal industry
Bai, Xuezhu; Bennington, Lynne - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 7 (2005) 3, pp. 275-287
Performance Appraisal (PA) is a western management concept that is meant to improve individual and, concomitantly, organisational performance. Although performance appraisal systems have come under a plethora of criticisms, they continue to be a platform of human resource management systems....
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Exploring HR outsourcing and its perceived effectiveness
Shih, Hsi-An; Chiang, Yun-Hwa; Hsu, Chu-Chun - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 7 (2005) 4, pp. 464-482
This study tries to explore the impact of HR outsourcing on its corresponding perceived effectiveness. Meanwhile, four variables, namely environmental dynamism, company strategy, HR involvement in the company's strategy process, and contractor relationship were employed to test the moderating...
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