Research and Practice in Human Resource Management

INTRODUCTION The Canadian human resource profession is influenced by college/university education, which is in turn, is influenced by HRM textbooks. The 'functional' framework of the first Canadianisation of U.S. developed HRM textbooks continues...

INTRODUCTION A major challenge for the minerals industry, which is of strategic importance to the Australian economy, is how to recruit highly skilled people to remote mining operations. The Australian minerals industry is a leading world producer...

INTRODUCTION There is little doubt that as a result of global mobility and immigration, the experience of work, particularly in large metropolitan centres such as New York, London, Toronto and Sydney has been transformed from relatively homogeneous...

INTRODUCTION The banking sector plays an important role in the worldwide economy and the employees of these institutions are the best resources responsible for delivering good services to bank customers (Khan, Farooq & Khan 2010). The banking...

INTRODUCTION The electronics industry in Thailand is vital for economic growth and sustainability because it ranks highly in its contribution to the country's Gross Domestic Product and to its exports. In fact, the Thai government has adopted a...

Introduction In spite of the ubiquitous nature of workplace friendships (WFs), this construct has only recently attracted serious attention in organisational analysis (e.g., Nielson, Jex & Adams 2000, Morrison 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, Sias,...

Introduction The 2010 Intergenerational Report, commissioned by the Australian Government, highlights that Australia faces real challenges for maintaining its work force into the future (Australian Government 2010) and halting declining productivity...

Introduction The increase in the number of women, and dual income earner families in the workforce pose challenges to employees in the management of their roles in the family and work domains (Kossek & Lambert 2005). When these challenges are...

INTRODUCTION Recruitment and selection is the process of attracting individuals on a timely basis, in sufficient numbers and with appropriate qualifications. Following the initial selection of incumbents they are likely to again be chosen to develop...

Introduction A major challenge for PNG mining companies is how to effectively formulate, implement, plan and administer a workable retrenchment programme that is consistent with sustainable development objectives. Developing strategies to address...

Introduction Training is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills needed for their present job (Fitzgerald 1992) because few people come to the job with the complete knowledge and experience necessary to perform their assigned...

INTRODUCTION In the wake of the industrial developments and to increase the productivity at the same time to maintain quality strategic tools are vital to evaluate the practices of the employees. Performance appraisal (PA) is an important management...

INTRODUCTION With the huge investment in developing training strategies and programmes, the question is no longer whether organisations should train or not, but rather it is about whether or not training is worthwhile and effective (Mann 1996)....

INTRODUCTION Work as a 'source of livelihood' has branched out from this meaning and advanced over to 'cover and create' diverse meaning in an individual's lived experience in the workplace as well as in life, encouraging creativity and self expression...

INTRODUCTION In the last two decades, increasing attention has been placed on self managed careers along paths other than the linear progression of responsibility and pay in the organisation (Baruch 2004). The 'protean career' and 'the boundaryless...

INTRODUCTION Historically New Zealand (NZ) is a country of immigrants though these immigrants in the 19th and early 20th century were primarily Caucasians from Anglo Saxon countries. However, in the 19th century, there were a few migrants from...

INTRODUCTION In Malaysia, the shift of a production based economy into a knowledge economy in the 1990s has spawned a variety of knowledge driven activities and entailed changes in the demand for intellectual manpower. The Third Outline Perspective...

INTRODUCTION In the knowledge economy, human resources with knowledge and competencies are the key assets in assisting firms and/or countries to sustain their competitive advantage. Globally competitive organisations will depend on the uniqueness...

ABSTRACT Although work-family conflict has been identified and analysed by numerous behavioural researchers, attempts to examine this issue across cultures are generally lacking. In view of this gap in the literature, this study sought to examine...

ABSTRACT The acceleration of China's integration towards the global economy and the ever changing business environment under its continued economic transition has heightened the need for overseas investors and Multi National Companies (MNCs) to...

ABSTRACT The increasing globalisation of the marketplace combined with an ever increasing shortage of skilled staff and advances in technology has resulted in large scale changes to remuneration practices throughout the world. And as Asian firms...

ABSTRACT Occupational Health and Safety (OH & S) is a topic of considerable relevance for the Papua New Guinea (PNG) mining industry. The unique environments in which PNG mining operates has confronted the industry with particular dilemmas that...

ABSTRACT Difficulties in executing performance appraisals are widely reported. However, little is known about the conduct of performance appraisals for host country managers. These managers are usually isolated from their supervisors, and it could,...

ABSTRACT Staff organisational linkages research (i.e., absenteeism, work accidents, turnover) is receiving increasing attention in the growing business competitiveness of today that requires effective utilisation of human resources. Organisations...

ABSTRACT The value of linkage research is in its ability to recognise the organisational practices that are the most important drivers of customer satisfaction in a specific organisation. Human Resources Management (HRM) plays a central role in...

ABSTRACT Family or domestic violence is a major social issue affecting many Australian women. Since the 1970s, women's refuges have led the movement to bring about change in relation to this form of violence against women and children, and more...

ABSTRACT Employees' training motivation arising from their judgements of justice can be a critical asset that a business has for gaining a sustained competitive advantage over rivals. This study sought to examine the effect of three (distributive,...

ABSTRACT There are three Human Resource Management related issues that have attracted considerable interest in the international management literature. These three research issues deal with 1) human resource practice transfers, with 2) relational...

ABSTRACT HRM practitioners have long understood how important it is that managers, especially senior ones, have the ability to deal with the cultural milieu, both national and organisational, in which they operate. In relation to expatriates, for...

ABSTRACT Recent changes to the Australian workforce raise questions about the impact of casualisation on employees. This study explored the effects of casual employment on a group of university students using the psychological contract as an interpretative...

ABSTRACT Previous research suggests that firms can gain sustainable competitive advantage through strategically managing their human resources, operationally exercised as strategic human resource management (SHRM). However, it remains unclear about...

Abstract The notion of empowering human capital to onset creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovation through planning the careers of institutional members using HRM policies and practices to develop different mindsets, skills and competencies...

Abstract Until the 1980s, Japanese firms succeeded with people oriented HRM in favourable business surroundings, but during the 1990s, in contexts of intense global competition, Japanese organisations changed their HRM systems to performance oriented....