The present paper uses a large representative data set for Germany to analyze the effect of an enriched job design, which is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and multitasking, on job satisfaction. In our empirical approach we take job satisfaction as a proxy variable for workers’...

This paper considers how the demand for non-material aspects of jobs evolves over changing wealth levels and how firms may want to react. We first consider the importance of non-material job aspects in general before turning to two specific human resource practices: flexible working hour...

The ability to manage communication is crucial in project management. This field could be either a key success factor if stakeholders use it properly or an element slowing the project down or threaten it if there are some communication barriers. Indeed communication issues are costly. In...

In the field of services, quality is, in general, defined by the client and the management ensures the overfulfilment of the clients demands and expectations. The quality of services implies two essential aspects that a manager has to take into account: the clients satisfaction and the absence...

The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine project management within the framework of a multi-generational workforce. Conducted analysis showed the gap between Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y. The process of socialization of each group, which took place at different time...

Számos magyar és külföldi tanulmány kimutatta, hogy a nemzetközi cégek leányvállalatai bérezésben és termelékenységben jelentős előnnyel rendelkeznek a helyiek vállalatokkal szemben. A magyar szakirodalomból azonban hiányzik az olyan vizsgálat, amely bemutatná ennek az...

Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly evolved over time, both in terms of motives and in terms of expressions, from major events to permanent practices, from crisis to competitiveness restructurings, from reactive to...