For SHRM to advance, it must eventually be based on a theory that specifies not only concepts and relationships, but appropriate and high-quality measures to express and test them. For metrics to advance beyond simply a large inventory of potentially-useful indices with no integrating logic or...

The purpose of this study was to expand research on personality and leadership by investigating the relationship between leader personality and firm performance. Drawing from research on the five-factor model of personality ("the Big Fife") leader emotional adjustment (low neuroticism) and...

The present study investigated the degree to which traits from the five-factor model of personality (often termed the "Big five") and cognitive ability were associated with several dimensions of extrinsic (salary, number of promotions, job level) and intrinsic (job satisfaction, life...

La gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) est un domaine où les choses changent actuellement tres vite dans le monde, lui-même en plein changement economique et social, a cause de l'arrivee des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication. Les entreprises sont plongees dans...

Ce texte s'interroge sur la place donnee a la formation au sein des entreprises qui ont signe des ententes de longue duree, notamment en ce qui concerne les processus formels de negociation entre les syndicats et les employeurs. Ces nouvelles ententes que d'aucuns qualifient de convention...

This study decribes the typical effects of the merger process on the people involved and, using the merger between Molson Breweries and Carling O'keefe as an example, identifies the crucial role that human resource professionals must play in ensuring merger success.

A partir de una revisión de la importancia empresarial del capital intelectual se analiza su aplicación a la empresa española Irizar, facilitando su salida de la crisis productiva. En este contexto, se pretende validar tres premisas de la generación de conocimiento, las cuales permiten...

We study a real supply chain environment from which specific information and knowledge can be extrapolated for other similar environments. We focus our research on the analysis of the interactions between members forming different teams (and between the teams themselves), and on the leader’s...

Today, innovativeness has an important function for both the public sector and the private sector. At the focal point of innovativeness are individuals whose innovative behaviors are influenced by various factors. Locus of control is one of those factors too. In this context, while examining the...