Trotzdem ist man auf diesem Weg noch lange nicht am Ziel. Die Beschäftigung mit der zielgerichteten, zukünftigen Entwicklung von Gemeinwesen und ihren Verwaltungen hat eine lange Tradition. In den letzten Jahren wurde das Thema verstärkt wieder aufgegriffen, wobei weniger die Planung als die...

Als Folge von Veränderungen im Unternehmensumfeld haben sogenannte innovative arbeitsorganisatorische und personalpolitische Instrumente, wie z.B. Gruppenarbeit oder ergebnisabhängige Entlohnung, in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten eine enorme Verbreitung erfahren. Die vorliegende Studie erarbeitet...

Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, the authors of the present study investigate the...

The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...

Although the body of research and practice on HR management in private sector organisations has grown at an astonishing pace in recent years, much less is known about the nature, role and meaning of a strategic HR department within public sector organisations undergoing commercialisation. This...

A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article - in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies of...

The theoretical idea of personnel economics is to apply simple economic principles to the field of human resources management. Personnel economics as a research field has grown rapidly since the first text book on 'Personnel Economics' was published in 1998. The development is driven by new...