Wird die Arbeitswelt aus mikropolitischer Perspektive betrachtet, geraet das Ringen um Ressourcen und Spielraeume auf der Handlungsebene in den Blick. Wie werden organisationale Change-Prozesse – ob innerbetriebliches Delayering oder die fortschreitende Digitalisierung – strategisch genutzt?...

Research’s goal is to show what managers should know in order to improve employees’ performance by guiding their behaviour and motivating them. To succeed, the manager must develop positive attitudes towards himself and the circumstances in which he is located.

Over time there have emerged a number of human resource management models, each with different characteristics and specificities. Starting with the Japanese model and up to the general European one, each has introduced a different perspective, not only into literature, but in practice also. This...

Relevant theoretical underpinnings suggest that higher education, continuous professional development and training provide numerous opportunities for societal advancement. This contribution posits that interventions in the realms of education can play a significant role in shaping key...

This article presents an original analysis of newly-available data from a landmark survey of 4,387 low-wage, front-line workers in the three largest U.S. cities. We analyze data on worker claims, retaliation, and legal knowledge to investigate what we call “bottom up” workplace law...

Purpose – Work-life balance is about living a fulfilled life inside and outside paid work, having control over your time so you can achieve that. It has become important to demonstrate the benefits that employers can derive from such employment policies and practices supporting work-life...

Economic liberalization policies adopted by the lawmakers in the last decade of the previous century have resulted in steady growth in India's GDP and the share of services sector in this growth story is remarkable. At present services sector contributes to Indian economy in a significant manner...

German Abstract: Die Verbreitung moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien macht es Unternehmen möglich, bei der Lösung von Problemen auf eine Vielzahl von Menschen zurück zu greifen. Bekannte Beispiele hierfür sind etwa Produktentwicklungen durch Crowdsourcing und...

Typically, workplace discrimination is approached from the perspective of a particular dimension (e.g., race or gender). This offers insight but also obscures important communality among different types of discrimination. We propose a construct of generalized workplace discrimination that...