A survey of the UK "Times" Top 500 companies and five in-depth case studies are used to investigate the growth in use of "soft" employee-related measures, and the paths of companies striving for "best practice" in this arena. The use of such data in the Business Excellence Model and the Balanced...

Research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997), Paauwe and Richardson (1997) and Boselie et al. (2001), suggests significant impact of Human Resources Management (HRM) on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...

In today's economy, companies must work harder than ever to attract, retain and motivate talented employees in order to foster employee satisfaction, and in order to do so, CSR practices can provide a strategic tool. A green company no longer denotes solely the promotion of green products or...

This paper explores the concepts of new pay and total reward from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The context is one of a UK public sector executive government agency tasked with delivering best value and modernising government agendas. The paper explores the theoretical framework...

This paper examines the relative impact of employee satisfaction with communication on trust in a work-setting. The data was drawn from an employee survey conducted in two consecutive years in a medium-size food processing organisation operating in Australia. Regression analysis revealed that...

The objective of this research is to provide a brief analysis of the performance of Islamic banks in Bangladesh. The Islamic banks in Bangladesh continued to show strong growth since its inception in 1983 to June 2007, Islamic banks maintained and achieved strong position in the key areas like...

Characterised as activities organisations take to positively influence the image the public has of them, organisational impression management (OIM) is essentially analogous to brand management. To date, however, there is a dearth of literature that links OIM and brand management. Taking this...

This study is for the faculties of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Communication, Tourism, Theology and Literature based on Gumushane University, and for instructors who take charge in the units based on Rectorship. As a result of this study, the effect of academic staff and employee...

This paper examines the gaps in chief executive officer (CEO) and worker compensation by exploring the vital data of 10 corporations as uncovered in a study by NerdWallet.com on the differences in hourly compensation between CEOs and average hourly workers or employees. The author examines the...

The paper has two purposes – first, to examine the dimensionality of employee satisfaction and, second, to identify the impact of the groups of factors on employee satisfaction. The measurement of satisfaction of all employees in the Slovenian Police based on the comprehensive on-line...