The authors use comparable data on employment practices in multinationals located in four countries - Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom - to examine the question, How can we explain variation among national subsidiaries of MNCs in the extent and form of control on employment...

The tension that multinational companies (MNCs) suffer in the transfer of their HR policies and practices leads us to take an in-depth look at the factors that affect this transfer. We divide the transfer process into five phases, ranging from the configuration of HR policies and practices in...

As Conner and Ulrich (1996) have broadly maintained, the evolution of Human Resources Management (HRM) is related to the historical evolution of the business and of the economy in which companies operate. Accordingly, the roles and decisions of HR managers and the HR function adapts to the...

This paper addresses the problem of skills mismatch for the 16-24 age cohort in Spain. Our research objective is to survey managers of companies that operate in Spain and reveal their perception of the mismatch phenomenon. We hypothesize that "cherry-picking" the most talented workers and...

Women continue to be under-represented in senior positions. The disparity is widest at the very top, where only 3% of companies have a woman directing their highest decision-making bodies (Iversen and Frances, 2010). In this paper, we present a "best practice" implemented by public agents as key...

El control de la eficiencia de las prácticas de RRHH ha recibido una atención escasa en la literatura académica. En este trabajo hemos contrastado cuál es el nivel de aplicación de las teorías acerca de la cuantificación de los efectos de las políticas de RRHH. Hemos desarrollado una...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the subject of work attitude drivers within the current scenario considering two influencing factors, culture and generation. Both membership of a particular generation and membership of a particular culture can affect individuals' work...

The tension that multinational companies (MNCs) suffer in the transfer of their HR policies and practices leads us to take an in-depth look at the factors that affect this transfer. We divide the transfer process into five phases, ranging from the configuration of HR policies and practices in...