Employees’ skill development is key to organizations’ competitiveness in a global, knowledge-based economy. Prior research in accounting, however, has mainly focused on the effects of management control instruments on the provision of transitory effort, thereby treating employee ability as...

"While the careers of secret agents have inspired many genres of popular culture, relatively little research has been carried out until now on spying as a profession. Through the lens of personnel management, the authors offer a unique and compelling analysis of secret service employee...

In seiner aktuellen Studie hat das KOFA den Zusammenhang zwischen ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit und personalpolitischen Maßnahmen analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass viele Unternehmen ihre Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Arbeitsprozesse bereits an ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit ausrichten. Es...

Apprenticeship training programs typically last several years and require substantial investments by training firms, largely due to the associated labor costs for participants and instructors. Nevertheless, apprentices also add significant value in the workplace. One tool to measure the costs...

International in scope, Working to Learn brings together acknowledged experts in this field. Taking both evidence-based and analytical perspectives, the book challenges many of the generalizations about the changing nature of work and skills, and identifies the workplace itself a critical site...

In the modern workplace, millions of dollars are spent each year on employee training. All too often, however, little thought and effort is spent on evaluating training and ensuring that the correct training is taking place. Successful training is about understanding both organizational goals...