The study is conducted to assess the impact of burnout on performance of the employees working in sales departments of banking industry in Pakistan. Data was collected from 322 sales officers working in banks. Regression analysis was used to assess the impact of burnout on performance and...

In the recent decade, the global tourism industry is showing trends of increasing visitor arrivals in the developing countries. On one hand, this implies that more tourist dollar is coming into small island developing states; on the other hand, it means that there will be more need for...

This paper examines the impact of mood and social presence of communication medium on ethical decision making within an expense reporting setting. Based on theoretical accounting research (Gaudine and Thorne, 2001), we predict that negative mood will result in more unethical expense reporting....

This paper explains how the Ruggie’s framework for corporate human rights performance may benefit from a relationship with the capability approach. The capability approach is found to fit nicely with both human rights and managerial perspectives. Among the many reciprocal contributions these...

Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful recombination depends on both the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) that contains innovation-relevant knowledge and the regulation of the knowledge flow through the...

This paper offers Amartya Sen’s capability approach as a framework for understanding and evaluating Human Resource Development activities in larger organizations, specifically transnational corporations (TNCs). There is a growing literature on international human resource management targeted...

Unfortunately, human capital erosion is a topical problem which affects the entire labor market. In Romania the issues are much more difficult than in other Member States of the European Union. Human capital erosion is a process through which the human capital from an organization, or from a...

An increasingly important organisational design problem for many firms is to recoup general human capital rents while maintaining attractive career prospects for workers. We explore the role of information management in this context. In our model, an information management policy determines the...

Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...

Trotz eines stetigen Anstiegs der Anzahl von selbstständigen Frauen in Deutschland hat sich der sogenannte Gender-Gap kaum verringert. Die vorlie-gende Studie untersucht auf Basis des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS), ob bzw. inwieweit familienbedingte Erwerbsunterbrechungen, die aus...