This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market,compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level...

The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...

Less than a tenth of Finnish firms CEOs and chairmen of the board are women; less than a fourth of Finnish firms board members are women. An empirical regression analysis of a large firm-level data set suggests that a company led by a women CEO is on average about ten per cent more profitable...

Esta investigación pretende mostrar si el predominio de culturas individualistas o colectivistas en una organización puede moderar los efectos de las políticas de recursos humanos sobre el rendimiento empresarial, relación a la que la literatura existente ha prestado muy poca atención. Para...

A person’s credibility within an organization, for a leader especially, can’t be separated by his professional competence. This is more important if we pay attention to his position within the hierarchy, what means that he can influence to a large extent the use of existing resources, with...

Socially responsible actions of the companies can be performed not only to society but also to its employees, which can help increase the company’s performance. In this article we have identified various ways of achieving social responsibility programmes to employees, being outlined a number...

Die Studie erörtert Chancen und Risiken, die mit der Anwendung der Unternehmensführungsstrategie CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) verbunden sind. Eine Vielzahl an Gefahren in CSR-aktiven Unternehmen - darunter das Risiko des Greenwashings - werden identifiziert, systematisiert und...

Betriebliches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement zielt auf einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Ressourcen und auf die entsprechende Gestaltung der innerbetrieblichen Abläufe ab. Dabei nutzen Unternehmen, die nachhaltiges Wirtschaften mit strategischen Zielen verbinden und hierbei über das gesetzlich...

Este documento presenta los hallazgos efectuados en el estudio de laresponsabilidad social empresarial (RSE) de las pequeñas y medianasempresas industriales de la provincia de Tundama. Con este propósitose da cuenta de la evolución de las diferentes apreciaciones sobreRSE; un acercamiento...

A partir de una revisión de la importancia empresarial del capital intelectual se analiza su aplicación a la empresa española Irizar, facilitando su salida de la crisis productiva. En este contexto, se pretende validar tres premisas de la generación de conocimiento, las cuales permiten...