Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of the link between human capital and strategy across hierarchies. Design/methodology/approach – Using data on personality traits as a proxy for strategy implementation success, empirical data included 1,738 Operational...

Purpose – Many organizations hold the traditional view that due to the potential of higher job dissatisfaction and employee turnover rates, hiring overqualified job candidates is risky. The purpose of this paper is to take an alternative perspective, using Human Capital and Resource-based...

Purpose – Organizational ambidexterity enables firm to simultaneously exploit existing resources and explore new resources. It is associated with high levels of organizational performance. The purpose of this paper is to identify key internal management resources which contribute to building...

Purpose Given its relative novelty, the field of people analytics remains rather obscure in terms of its success criteria. The purpose of this paper is to unveil some of the hidden secrets of people analytics. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the common characteristics of those...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the barriers to the rapid development of effective HR analytics capabilities in organizations. Design/methodology/approach Literature and conceptual review of the current state of HR analytics. Findings “HR analytics” is used to refer to a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore relationships between leader personality traits (neuroticism and conscientiousness) and four specific workplace stressors (control; work overload; work-life balance and managerial relationships) experienced by work group members....

Purpose – The knowledge that is embedded within people, relationships, and organizational routines present key, but varied, sources of capabilities needed to compete. The value of this knowledge depends on the investment costs and benefits that come as employees draw on and utilize these...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential effects of organizational socialization on organizational-level outcomes and to demonstrate that organizational socialization is an important human resource (HR) practice that should be included in research on strategic human...

Purpose – Following the high profile collapses of Enron and WorldCom, and the demise of Andersen, human capital (HC) has become a key driver of auditor quality. The purpose of this study is to investigate if there is a positive association between HC and auditor quality in public accounting...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the performance of a company’s intellectual capital can explain organisational performance. The dimensions of a company’s performance are (1) profitability, (2) productivity and (3) market valuation. Data were obtained from a sample of 65...