Human resource management has always faced a fundamental paradox: Top managers in any company will readily agree that the people are the keys to the success, but few believe they know whether their people are well managed or if they are prepared to fortify and enhance the transformations facing...

Absenteeism research has often been criticized for using inappropriate analysis. Characristics of absence of data, notably that it is usually truncated and Skewed. Violate assumptions of OLS regresion; however, OLS and correlation analysis remain the dominant models of absenteeism research.

The present study attempted to provide a constructive replication and extension of a study on managerial job search completed by Bretz, Boudreau, and Judge (1994). Beyond examining the same variables as Bretz et al. (1994), the effects of personality, cognitive ability, challenge and hindrance...

Our review of the evidence suggests that the claims of the advocates of standards and examination based reform of American secondary education may be right. The countries and Canadian provinces with such systems outperform other countries at comparable levels of development. In addition, New...

This paper presents a framework for studying the concepts of fit and flexibility in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management (Strategic HRM) focusing on HRM practices, employee skills, and employee behaviors and reviews past conceptual and empirical work within that framework. A model of...

There is a considerable amount of research suggesting that "being international" is better. While that may be the case, the assumption remains tenuous at best, and research that considers organizational size provides results contesting this assumption. In particular, we explore the effect of...