The article tries to explicate and illustrate a type of qualitative practitioner research in the field of professional training and to shed light on its practical uses for the acquisition of analytical skills and the fostering of professional discourse. The discussion is based on the author’s...

Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro)economic methodology and insights to the personnel function of companies. It is scientifically fertile and complementary to other disciplinary approaches to personnel issues. Instead of that, an approach without...

This text deals with two of the most popular concepts of organizational marketization: “intrapreneurship“ (corporate entrepreneurship) and the “internalisation of markets“. Historical roots and their development are subject of discussion as well as their internal logics, their mutual...

According to the widely used Managerial Power Model, a higher hierarchical position with associated higher power leads to higher compensation. In contrast, the Compensating Wage Differentials Model argues that there is a non-positive relationship between positional power and total compensation....

Research on knowledge management in organizations reveals that some projects fail because managers include technological and strategic dimensions in their design, but not human and sociocultural considerations. The formation of communities of practice in organizations represents an alternative...

No political philosopher is better known in the business world than Niccolo Machiavelli, whose fame there rests entirely on his authoring of The Prince. Over the last two decades, no less than ten books have been published in the popular business press on the Renaissance Italian thinker, most of...

Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial when tacit knowledge in and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms enable different kinds of motivation and have different capacities to generate and transfer tacit knowledge. Since...

There is now a substantial body of research examining the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and organisational performance. Much of this research has focused on attempting to specify "bundles" of HRM practices or HRM systems that have an identifiable effect on firm...

This study utilized a predictive, multivariate research design to test the relationship between three independent variables -- supportive organizational leadership, organizational socialization, and satisfaction with supervision -- and the dependent variable -- turnover intent -- as mediated by...