In a modern economy human capital is the basic resource, directly influencing production and the financial results of the enterprise. Employee involvement determines their better job performance and the achievement of better financial results. The analysed companies - winners of the contest...

Human capital plays an important role in the development of every company. Big enterprises have a Human Resources Department which conducts analyses and measurements of human capital. In Poland over 90% of the total number of companies is made up of small and middle- size enterprises. The aim of...

Purpose - Against the background of current leadership theory, this research paper analyses and compares the leadership approaches of two outstanding leaders: Daniel Vasella, chairman of the leading Swiss pharmaceutical organization Novartis and Ricardo Semler, owner of the Brazilian...

Measuring workers’ productivity is important for public policy and private-sector decision-making. Due to a lack of reliable methods to determine workers’ productivity, firms often use specific performance measures, such as how different incentives affect employees’ behavior. The public...

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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...

Zum zweiten Mal ermittelt eine gemeinsame Studie des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln (IW Köln) und des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult GmbH (IW Consult) den Beitrag der Unternehmen zu Studium und...

Cross-Company Mentoring is an external form of business mentoring across organizational borders. Thereby it is important that the participants are able to quickly get into a high quality developmental relationship to reap the benefits of the learning opportunities. This paper thus focuses on the...

Managing work-life balance (WLB) has become an issue for both employees and HR departments since WLB tensions may reduce performance, overall job satisfaction and finally, increase the fluctuation rate. Having a balance between job and non-work is a particular challenge for international...

International talent management becomes increasingly important, because companies compete on a global scale for qualified employees. Finding highly educated talent, however, is difficult, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This research investigates the work expectations of Chinese (N=404),...