Der Unternehmensmonitor Familienfreundlichkeit 2013 zeigt, dass die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf in der Wirtschaft weiterhin eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit genießt. Dies gilt fast ausnahmslos vor allem für die knapp 30 Prozent der Betriebe, in denen die Geschäftsleitung eine ausgeprägt...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die wechselseitige Beziehung zwischen Unternehmenserfolg und einer familienbewussten Personalpolitik. Anhand der Schätzung eines simultanen Gleichungssystems mit den Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels zeigt sich, dass eine gute Geschäftsentwicklung für ein...

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

The significance of cultural factors in the international economic environment has recently increased thanks to economic, political and social aspects. The role of cultural elements has been emphasized by a wide range of studies, both from the theoretical as well as the empirical point of view....

Using data from a large cross-section of British establishments, we ask how different firm characteristics are associated with the predicted benefits to organizational performance from using team production. To compute the predicted benefits from using team production, we estimate structural...

Firms with narcissistic CEOs are more likely to experience the turnover of non-CEO executives; this effect is amplified for executives with pay closer to the CEO's pay. Stock price reactions to narcissism-induced departures are more negative the longer the non-CEO executive's tenure. If...

Purpose of the article: Employee engagement, which has been acclaimed as one of the key determinants of the organisational performance, largely depends on employees' dispositions. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the effects of high performance work practices (HPWPs) on employee...

We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms:...

For more than ten years, a great deal has been written about the key role that human resources can play in acquiring a competitive advantage. HRM activities would become strategic if the organization's philosophy, policies, programs, practices, HRM processes and strategic needs were...

Objective: This article aims to identify and explore a potential relationship between talent management (TM) practices and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Despite the growing number of publications on talent management, scholars rarely investigate such a link in this...