This study of a sample of firms based in a region of Scotland, examines the characteristics of organizations that are early adopters of management development methods. The survey results show that organizations that are early adopters of one or more of four fashionable management development...

Employer branding is becoming an increasingly important topic for research and practice in multinational enterprises (MNEs) because it plays directly into their corporate reputation, talent management and employee engagement agendas. In this paper, we argue that the potential effects of employer...

How MNEs control and co-ordinate their subsidiaries' human resources has been a mtter of some debate in recent years. The corporate centre's human resource (HR) department is frequently accorded a key role in shaping direction through programme of strategic change involving best practice...

In this paper we explore the potential for HR professionals to draw on the branding literature as a new performance discourse, which increasingly is believed by organizations such as the UK-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to be a key area of interest for their...

Addresses the question: will investment in HRD through company-based programmes of lifelong learning pay dividends to companies in terms of knowledge transfer from courses and more positive psychological contracts? Develops a model of the relationship between HRD investment, the content of...

The article sets out a process describing the links between the breach of psychological contracts and the resistance to strategic and organizational change. When organizations fail to respect employee interests, the low-trust relationships and levels of cynicism that invariably result severely...