While both recruiting and termination are crucial human resource management activities, professionals in the field have preferred to focus on other aspects of employment. Despite tremendous changes undergone by business and society over the past few decades, terminations are still handled in the...

This paper attempts to evaluate the extent to which the introduction of human resource management (HRM) practices in Chinese state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) is likely to boost the organisations’ performance in the way in which the advocates of HRM bundles claim. It has examined the...

Purpose – Referring to the sociology of conventions, the purpose of this paper is to examine how various conventions of work coordination and employee relations affect how recruiters in the domestic labour industry use ethnic categories to match jobs to applicants in the domestic services...

Purpose – This paper aims to reveal the factors that have helped SearchFlow, a UK provider of property searches, to earn a first‐class rating from Best Companies, the organization that compiles the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For lists. Design/methodology/approach – Emphasizes the...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the main human resource management policies at Ethan Power Private Ltd, an Indian design, sales and manufacturing company, and the specific circumstances that led it to become a learning organization. Design/methodology/approach – This paper outlines the...

Purpose – Domestic and international underserved markets represent a multi‐trillion‐dollar opportunity that is largely untapped. They offer the chance both to build significant profits and to meet social needs as well. But recent experience shows there are significant risks as well. The...

This paper adapts the model espoused by Snape and considers avenues for trade unions to increase membership. It studies two specific industrial sectors, namely 20 non‐unionised manufacturing small‐ to medium‐sized establishments (SMEs) and four large unionised banking and insurance...