Change Management is often defined as a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams and organisations from a current to desired future state, aimed firstly at employee empowerment for accepting that change. But that change inevitably brings fear: fear of being unable to adapt, fear...

The main task of this research is to create a model that enables an organization to effectively and effeciently resolve its everyday problems and potential incidents in time to prevent them from turning into a crisis. For solving problems, ad hoc measures and activities are often applicable,...

We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

Human resource (HR) management has been proposed as being one of the core drivers of the modernization of the public sector, in particular with reference to the changing nature of people management and "HR-public service partnerships" as an antecedent capacity of modernizing public service...

Erster zu sein, ist immer vorteilhaft - diese Sichtweise wird im Kontext von Unternehmen gewöhnlich vertreten. Die akademische Literatur bestätigt diese Annahme jedoch nicht generell. Im Gegenteil, als Erster zu handeln kann auch schädlich für Unternehmen sein. Die vorliegende Studie...

Although the performance effects of multitasking were analyzed intensively in the past, little is known about the impact of the adoption time of multitasking on corporate performance. Possibly, the quantity of the reorganization is crucial and early movers experience a comparative competitive...

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

Objective - Organisational commitment has emerged as a major source of competitive advantage for many organizations. Its dominance and significance in the field of academia and business is highly attributed to its incredible benefits such as improved employee performance, productivity, loyalty,...