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Managing flexworkers: holding on and letting go
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore what it means to be a manager in the context of working from home, or "flexworking", as an increasingly common work practice. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is ... -
Integrating realistic job previews and realistic living conditions previews: realistic recruitment for internationally mobile knowledge workers
(Emerald, 2008)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of realistic job previews (RjPs) and realistic living conditions previews (RLCPs) during the recruitment of a group of internationally mobile knowledge workers who ... -
Managing, managerial control and managerial identity in the post-bureaucratic world
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the issues involved in managerial control and managerial identity in relation to the idea of a post-bureaucratic organization. In addition it introduces the ... -
Barriers and paths to success: Latin American MBAs' views of employment in Canada
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - This paper aims to examine perceived barriers and paths to success for Latin American immigrant professionals in the Canadian job market Design/methodology/approach - Findings are based on 20 semi-structured ... -
Managerial narratives: a critical dialogical approach to managerial identity
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of a dialogical approach, associated with the Russian literary critic and philosopher Bakhtin, in understanding the portrayal of managerial identity in management ... -
Job-search strategies and reemployment quality: the impact of career adaptability
(Elsevier, 2010)Past job-search research has focused on how hard unemployed people search for a job, but we still know little about the strategies that people use during their search and how we can predict the quality of the reemployment ... -
Becoming a leader: the challenge of modesty for women
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - While the number of women in managerial positions has been increasing, the gender composition of top management teams is skewed. There are barriers and obstacles in place that limit the movement of women into ... -
Work intensity: potential antecedents and consequences
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - The purpose of this exploratory research is to examine the relationship of a measure of work intensity with potential antecedents and consequences. Design/methodology/approach - A questionnaire was developed and ... -
Canada's bold experiment with pay equity
(Emerald, 2010)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution, implementation and effectiveness of the Pay Equity Act in Ontario, Canada. Given that this Act is considered by many as the world's most progressive equal ... -
The drunkard's search: looking for 'HRM' in all the wrong places
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Specific concerns have been raised about the ontologies and epistemologies that have dominated HRM research and the concomitant ubiquity of positivistic research methodologies. These concerns have also given rise to calls ... -
In justice we trust: A model of the role of trust in the organization in applicant reactions to the selection process
(Elsevier, 2008)Despite the reliance on organizational justice in applicant reactions research, and the research attention devoted to the relationship between organizational justice and organizational trust (Brockner, J., & Siegel, P. ... -
Job analysis for a changing workplace
(Elsevier, 2008)Job analysis sits at the heart of all human resource practices, making it a critically important management activity in every organization. However, with increasing competition, shorter product life-cycles, rapid technological ... -
Pay for performance - panacea or Pandora's box? Revisiting an old debate in the current economic environment
(SAGE, 2009)New research in neuroeconomics suggests that money may be a more powerful motivator than previously thought, with important implications for incentive pay programs. -
The evolution of employee benefits at the Economical Insurance Group
(SAGE, 2009)Employee benefit plans can be an important part of an organization's employment deal and can help differentiate one employer from another. This article defines employee benefits as an extensive offering of programs that ... -
The man behind the woman: a qualitative study of the spousal support received and valued by executive women
(SAGE, 2008)Little is known about the spousal support received by married executive women and the support behaviors that they value. This article details the results of a qualitative study of 20 senior and executive-level women, with ... -
Facilitating class discussions around current and controversial issues: ten recommendations for teachers
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)Facilitating productive class discussions is one of the most challenging tasks facing college educators, especially when potentially divisive issues are discussed. The author shares ten recommendations derived from teaching ... -
Career advancement and family balance strategies of executive women
(Emerald, 2009)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore coping strategies devised by executive women in family relationships to advance their career and to maintain career/family balance. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative ... -
Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Canada: who makes the transition and why?
(Springer Verlag, 2008)The focus of this paper is on a microeconomic analysis of the annual transition rate from temporary to permanent work of individual workers in Canada for the period 1999-2004. Given that a large proportion of temporary ... -
Overeducated Immigrants in the Canadian labour market: evidence from the workplace and employee survey
(University of Toronto Press, 2008)This paper addresses the overeducation of recent immigrants in the Canadian labour market. Data from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey are used to explore the determinants and earnings consequences of overeducation. ...
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