Purpose – Little is known about the implications of employing agency staff on safeguarding or the reasons why employers recruit staff from agencies who specialise in supplying staff to the sector or why social care staff work for such agencies. This paper aims to present findings from a study...

The article examines the impact of changing human resource endowments on the factor intensity and commodity composition of manufacturing exports in the ASEAN economies. There is evidence that skill and human capital endowments over the period 1970‐83 have increased, and that this rise in the...

Purpose – The paper seeks to report on an audit undertaken in 2010 to support implementation of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) processes by National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. The ISA was set up under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (SVGA) 2006. Concern has been...

Municipal or local governments worldwide are poorly prepared for the vast changes taking place in human resource management (HRM). Most aspects of organizational life are being transformed, and a strategy, that local governments can follow to avoid becoming a “backwater”, that will cease to...

Purpose – The spread of economic global integration in the last 50 years has resulted in the recent emergence of global labour markets. Ageing populations and skill shortages have placed significant pressure upon Australia's economic sustainability and survival in a global economy. The global...

Today, human resource managers do not have the luxury of operating and performing in a stable, predictable environment as political, social and economic changes are affecting all organizations and their human resource management activities. In particular, the dominant environmental uncertainties...

Seeks to examine the link between union membership and union recognition by using the nested multinomial logit model. Explains the application to modelling union membership, dividing variables into blue– and white‐collar workers. Concludes that the most important determinant of union...

Investigates changes in skilled and unskilled employment over the 1980s using UK data skills from the Labour Force Survey and the New Earnings Survey Panel Data set, matched with industrial data from the Census of Production. The major findings are: that there was a rise in on‐manual wage and...