Purpose – This paper aims to explore the role of human‐resource (HR) specialists as change agents and the competencies they need in order to execute this role. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on the HR literature, the paper enumerates the skills that HR specialists should seek to...

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments...

Purpose – Discusses what motivates people who work in information technology and looks at ways that companies can retain their key personnel. Design/methodology/approach – Describes a retention and reward strategy for information‐technology specialists. Findings – Details the importance...

Purpose – Describes how OpenText, an international enterprise‐software company, wanted to align its expanding European business under a common framework, following a period of rapid growth, and so chose more than 100 employees to go through workshops focused on sales and customer service....

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments...

Purpose – Describes the role of human-resource management (HRM) in ensuring effective knowledge management in virtual teams. Design/methodology/approach – Explains how the various policies and processes designed and implemented by the HRM enable virtual teams to manage knowledge effectively...

The aim of this article is threefold: first, to discuss a framework for understanding the penetration of information and communication technology (ICT) in Western households and the abundance of associated risks such as capability deficits, a network society exclusive to internet users leading...

This article identifies contemporary society as a network society made possible by new information and communication technologies which are both a necessary condition for, and inextractable dimension of that society, and pose complex results and challenges. The prevalence of networks means that...

This article assesses the extent to which social transformations involve changes in their socially constructed temporal profiles and draws distinctions between cyclical, linear, absolute and relative conceptions of time. It could be predicted that, in the information society, with the...