Abstract Mittels Gentests lassen sich Erkrankungsrisiken frühzeitig erkennen. Arbeitnehmenden bieten sie die Chance, eigene Krankheiten zu vermeiden, und Unternehmen die Möglichkeit, ihre krankheitsbedingten Kosten zu verringern. Der technische Aufwand und die Kosten für Gentests sind in den...

Zusammenfassung Unter der Prämisse, dass das Humankapital ein entscheidender Faktor für die erneute Buchung einer Messe durch einen Aussteller ist, wurde im Januar 2018 eine Befragung von 129 Messeausstellern auf der Fachmesse Best of Events (BoE) durchgeführt. Ziel war die Identifikation des...

Abstract The Volunteer Protection Act (VPA) was enacted in 1997 to encourage volunteerism by protecting individuals from liability for their negligent actions while volunteering. Proponents intended to provide legal safeguards for volunteers, whom they claimed were deterred from volunteering by...

Five distinguishing characteristics of non profit organizations are identified and explored. They are: a different and more complex environment, more altruistic purposes with strong traditions, importance of motivating and rewarding volunteers, staff structures that exist in parallel with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how chief executives of 20 nonprofit organizations construe and prioritize the skills they use to perform typical leadership tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The in-depth interview protocol used in the study is based on the Repertory Grid...

This article analyzes the book The Goal: A process of Ongoing Improvement by E. Goldratt and J. Cox to discuss human resource management implications. The book helped organizations increase profit margins through process management. The book focuses on a manufacturing plant that was unprofitable...

This article focuses on identifying key human resource management (HRM) practices necessary for improving information security performance from the perspective of IT professionals. The Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) via SmartPLS 3.0 was employed and 232 samples were collected from...

The global marketplace is characterized by various changes occurring in economic, social, natural, and technological areas. As such, experts in numerous fields are still working to revise various systems and infrastructures to operate in a robust manner within the new realities of today. This...

The number of staff restructuring processes has considerably increased worldwide in recent years, and their effects are increasingly dramatic. Furthermore, the global economic context is becoming more and more turbulent. All this poses a series of new challenges for firms that they will only be...