How can human resource management (HRM), as both a scholarly discourse and corporate strategic function, advance the sustainability agenda? We endeavor to answer this question by drawing together insights gleamed from emerging sustainable HRM literature. First, we synthesize various conceptualizations theoretical perspectives on topic, including frames of reference HRM, institutional theory log...

In recent times, there has been increased awareness that organisational knowledge might be the key to organisation success. In most construction organisations such knowledge is dispersed and fragmented, since much of it exists in diffuse social networks. To prevent failure, knowledge management (KM) has to be properly implemented in organisations. This invariably implies that construction organ...

The importance of human resources management (HRM) to the success or failure of health system performance has, until recently, been generally overlooked. In recent years it has been increasingly recognised that getting HR policy and management "right" has to be at the core of any sustainable solution to health system performance. In comparison to the evidence base on health care reform-related ...

This study examines the challenges facing China’s increasingly complex human resource management (HRM) after its WTO accession and consequently the implications for further reform of government policy and enterprise-level HRM practices. The paper concludes that current HR practices are diverse between enterprises with different ownership, industry sector, location and history. The direction of ...

Page In the knowing approach, rather than study knowledge as something that people have, the authors focus the process of knowing regarded as something that people do. The social dimension of knowing, enhanced the tacitness of collective knowledge instead of individual mastery within communities of practices and communities of knowing. The assumption of a coherent research perspective based on ...

in today's organizations, an effective human resource management as the most important organizational source- especially in critical industries such as electricity industry- is not achievable unless having a systematic, specialized and professional perspective. professionalism is a perfect and holistic view to a work or working situation that it encompasses a comprehensive mastery in affai...

T purpose of this paper is to assess the claim by the Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA) and the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business (DEWRSB) that Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) allow employers to integrate both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dimensions of ‘strategic’ human resource management (HRM) theory, providing greater efficiency and profitability, while a...

In this paper, we review articles in the research field of international and comparative human resource management (HRM), published Asia Pacific Journal Human Resources since journal’s inception 1960s. Our is based on 155 articles, including 43 conceptual, opinion, editorial, 112 empirical studies, examines trends over decades by examining four major areas: 1) characteristics articles; 2) topic...