This article has the aim of considering whether managerial control, no matter its form, has outlived, its usefulness in postbureaucratic society, and if so, whether it can be replaced by a more emancipatory discourse among local practitioners as they confront the immanent requirements of social...

The most vexing problem in the management of salaried professionals is how to provide them with their espoused right of autonomy while ensuring adequate control of the organization. In this article, Joseph Raelin explains how a standard approach of granting professionals operational autonomy...

Increasing development in information communication technology led to huge attention over the mobile phones having extra features, normally referred as smartphones. Recently, the operating system and more importantly what distinguishes smartphones from ordinary phones, applications (Apps) had...

Labour markets have undergone vast transformations over the last few years. There are arguments that employment and unemployment measures have not been adequate in understanding the complexities of labour markets. Research on labour underutilisation has focused on one side of the spectrum, which...

Gender differences in the frequency of employer changes and their financial return were examined in a sample of Bavarian university graduates. The search and matching theories were used to develop hypotheses which were then tested against each other. The results show that in the first few years...

The underrepresentation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) majors is well documented. Using high-quality Spanish data, this study examines whether female STEM graduates are less likely to pursue STEM careers than their male counterparts and considers the...

Eine moderne Industrienation wie Deutschland ist auf hoch qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte in hohem Maße angewiesen. Den deutschen Hochschulen kommt dabei eine besondere Verantwortung zu, ihre Absolventinnen und Absolventen mit dem Wissen und den Fähigkeiten auszustatten, wie sie am Arbeitsmarkt...

Wird in Deutschland zu viel studiert, oder ist die Diskussion über eine Überakademisierung der Gesellschaft verfehlt? Johanna Wanka, Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, unterstreicht, dass berufliche Bildung und Studium gleichermaßen wichtige Bestandteile des deutschen...