Employing adequate manpower is one of the major concerns of modern organizations. As Faculty members having specific characteristics, they are not available when necessary and this requires planning in order to predict their demand in time. In this research, using trend analysis as one of the...

Das ifo Institut befragte im Auftrag der WirtschaftsWoche rund 600 Manager aus den Wirtschaftsbereichen Industrie, Bau, Handel und Dienstleistung nach ihren Einschätzungen der konjunkturellen Entwicklung im Jahr 2013 sowie zu ihren Investitions- und Beschäftigungsplänen für das neue Jahr....

Im Rahmen der 55. Prognose 100 fragte das ifo Institut im ersten Quartal 1999 wieder mittlere und große westdeutsche Industrieunternehmen nach ihren Personal-, Umsatz- und Investitionsplänen. Abweichend von den vergangenen Erhebungen beziehen sich die Meldungen der westdeutschen Firmen...

The German meat market is facing considerable changes. Along with the boom of case-ready and discount stores, butchers and smaller retailers loose market shares, and private labels become widely accepted. The consumers' preferences are often neglected by these trends. This contribution discusses...

In this paper we study drivers of firms’ human resource planning practices. This is done by analyzing two central parts of personnel planning, formal HRM strategies and analyses of competence development needs. Data collected from 3,877 firms in 21 countries are applied in the analysis. Nine...

A new model combining parametric and semi-parametric approaches and following the lines of a semi-Markov model is developed for multi-stage processes. A Bivariate sojourn time distribution derived from the bivariate exponential distribution of Marshall & Olkin (1967) is adopted. The results...

Human Resource Planning (HRP) plays a pivotal role in organizations through providing the balance between supply and demand for qualified human resources; in times of crisis, especially those cases with large number of fatalities, HRP will become even more important. In the case of Bam...

Strategic human resource management issue is treated by many authors, following this paper we will try to clarify, to emphasize the role of this concept and how it should be implemented in domestic comapniile. Defining the concept of strategic human resource management, requires perfect...