During an extended period of economic recession for most of the 1990s, broad and striking changes have been made to the Japanese employment system. How fundamental or reversible they are is harder to evaluate. This paper discusses the Japanese employment system and its changes. It is concluded that if the economic recovery prevails, a considerable stabilization of Japanese human resource practi...

Within academia there has been similar growing awareness of this need. Although this awareness is being articulated in several ways, one of the most frequent involves the conceptualization and investigation of the relationship between business strategy and the personal characteristics of top managers.^ Here, particular manager characteristics such as personality, skills, abilities, values, and ...

Received: 18 November 2008 Revised: 9 June 2009 Accepted: 10 August 2009 Abstract Previous research has investigated the relationships between intellectual capital (IC) and human resource management (HRM). Others have described the link between IC and strategic initiatives in an organization including strategic human resource management (SHRM). However, little systematic work has been done to d...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and workers’ overall job satisfaction and their satisfaction with pay. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses British data from two different cross-sectional datasets. It estimates probit models with overall job satisfaction and satisfaction with pay as subjective depen...

Human resource practices are important to enable a company to gain competitive advantage (Barney & Wright, 1998) and enjoy global sustainability (Gollan, 2005). Effective implementation of strategic human resource management is essential and significant in shaping the success of a business (Hoque, 1999) as well as in building human capital or people management as a competitive advantage. Many M...

according to this reality that there are some differences among the women, men in terms of learning agents such as education, job background and natural factors such as risk taking and the time that they devote to do a work, it is expected that some differences to exist in the management field and specially in terms of method of human resource management approach (hrm) among the women and men. ...

It is now five years since we last reviewed performance management practices and fifteen years since we first began this important research project. Over this period we have witnessed four important developments in human resource management. First, the connection between an organisation’s performance and how it manages its people has now been established empirically: human resource practices di...

2 Abstract The evidence from 25 years of the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys shows that a growing number of workplaces have a personnel specialist in place and that an increasing proportion of these specialists have relevant qualifications. Personnel management is becoming more embedded and more professionalised. It is reasonable to assume that personnel specialists are hired to apply co...