Human resource (HR) management is one of an organisation's most important core activities. As new technologies and software applications spread, it is important to recognise that human resource management must also mature and, to this end, must apply new technological guidelines. Artificial...

Human resource management (HRM) practices are generally expected to stimulate a firm's innovation performance. However, which of these practices do really pay off? Based on a unique dataset that includes detailed information for both a firm's innovation activities and different types of HRM...

Unternehmenskrisen sind seit langem Gegenstand der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung. Relativ wenig Aufmerksamkeit wurde dem Thema Unternehmenskrise jedoch bisher seitens der Personalforschung gewidmet. Dies dient dem vorliegenden Beitrag als Anlass, zwei Zielsetzungen zu verfolgen: Erstens...

Aufgrund eines verstärkten ökonomischen Legitimationsdrucks und des zunehmenden Einflusses des Shareholder-Value-Denkens wuchs in größeren Unternehmen das Interesse der Personalpraxis an Konzepten wertorientierter Personalarbeit. Obwohl die zugrunde liegenden indikatorengestützten...

This article explores the current practice of motivating agricultural workers in post-socialist settings. In addition, it attempts to evaluate the different wage systems observed in reality and better understand under which conditions they are reformed. It does so by contrasting the experience...

The present article presents the empirical findings of a questionnaire survey carried out in Greece, exploring the effects of the recent financial crisis on organizational behavior in the country's public sector. The study focuses on the impact of the financial crisis on organizational...

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We adopt an alternative approach comparing schools to observationally equivalent workplaces in the rest of the British economy using measures of workplace performance that are...

There is a perception among some commentators and policy analysts that leadership and managerial practices in private schools are superior to those in state schools. Analysing a survey of workplaces in Britain, we find little evidence to support this contention when examining the prevalence of...

Human Resource Management as an academic discipline needs to be theoretically grounded, i.e. it requires support through theories, theory-driven empirical research and critiques. In doing so, different theoretical perspectives are addressed suggesting a problem-orientated theory selection which...