Can a company attract a different type of employee by changing its compensation scheme? Is it sufficient to pay more to increase employees’ motivation? Should a firm provide evaluation feedback to employees based on their absolute or their relative performance? Laboratory experiments can help...

For decades the rise of women to leadership positions in the workplace has been a conspicuous matter on a global spectrum. Women are challenging the prospects that were once emplaced upon them and continue to break the forefronts of opportunity that face them. This thesis brings life to Eleanor...

The paper examines the effect of gender composition of executive body on financial performance and financial health of the firms. The data of more than thousand Czech travel agencies and tour operators for the period 2008-2015 was employed in the paper. To test the relationship between firm...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, emphasising the importance of ensuring full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and...

The present study aimed to explore whether personality traits influence buying behaviour and if this influence differs depending on a different culture. The author focused on a cross-cultural investigation of Poland and the UK. Data were collected via an online questionnaire which measured...

Change is accepted as a process determined among an organisation's senior management; therefore, employees would predominately resist the change process, making it necessary for change strategists to address the resistance prior to implementing the change programme. Since a strategic challenge...

La intención primaria del presente artículo es realizar un análisis comparativo entre estrategias de planeación de la capacidad de firmas pertenecientes a la industria manufacturera colombiana. Los planes erigidos son determinados a partir la aplicación de sofisticadas técnicas de...

Most individuals find their way into entrepreneurship through combinations of self-employment and paid employment. However, prior research on entrepreneurial intentions has overlooked intended career transitions. Drawing on social cognitive career theory, we argue that, against the background of...

The present paper uses a large representative data set for Germany to analyze the effect of an enriched job design, which is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and multitasking, on job satisfaction. In our empirical approach we take job satisfaction as a proxy variable for workers'...

This study examines the performance of wholesale and retail small and medium enterprises in Thailand, which are integrating innovations in human resource practices, innovation capabilities, and competitive advantage. The data sample comprises 260 small and medium enterprises located in the...