Businesses are responding to the threat of disruptive innovation technologies by upgrading their capabilities and practices. These upgrades ensure implementing organizations become more adaptable, and flexible, with respect to their ability to alter business strategies in response to changing...

An important dimension of this broader concept of innovation is 'workplace innovation'. One form of workplace innovation is the adoption of 'high performance' or 'high involvement' approaches within firms, such as work teams, multi-skilling and employee involvement schemes. In this paper, we are...

Corporations cannot exist without workers, yet workers are not part of the formal or informal governance structures established by U.S. corporate law. Commentators and policymakers have bemoaned this state of affairs for decades, to little avail. Since the mid-2010s, however, a concept related...

In her article, the author showed the impact of cultural determinants on age management at enterprises in the selected European countries. To consider the relationships between the national culture and age management at enterprises the author proposed a system approach, with the use of the...

This paper attempts to spotlight human resource management as a fundamental part of the role of any supervisor. In this paper, the human resource manager refers to the supervisor of three or more reports in a business unit not minding the existence of the human resource department in the...

Whereas the field of International Business has extensively studied MNEs’ generic (positive) impact on host economies, but rarely on employee wages, economics research has only shown an overall MNE wage premium. We ‘unravel’ this premium, considering multiple levels of analysis and...

Workers in the United States depend on their employers for a host of benefits beyond wages and salary. From retirement benefits to health insurance, from student loan repayment to dependent-care spending plans, from disability benefits to family and medical leave, U.S. employers play a uniquely...

Because globalization is as much about capital as it is about labor, multinational companies hire third-country nationals out of competitive necessity. This article discusses why litigating claims for breach of the covenant-not-to-compete (and other restrictions in post-employment agreements...

Future economic growth requires the employment of a greater number of workers above 55 years old. To deal with this increasing problem, it is important to identify the preferred solutions of older workers in order to promote the retention of these workers in their jobs. Older workers of three...

The authors tested the influence of thirteen human resource management practices on voluntary turnover rates the following year while controlling for workplace size, the presence of a separate human resources management unit, union density, industry, and region. Analysis of data from 4,160...