The Development of an Instrument for Evaluating Chinese Business Strategy...
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...
View ArticleThe Influence of Support at Work and Home on Work-Family Conflict: Does...
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...
View ArticleCurrent Remuneration Practices in the Multinational Companies in Malaysia: A...
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...
View ArticleOrganisational Leadership: A Case Study of the Identification and Advancement...
ABSTRACT Most middle sized and large corporations in Australia invest considerable sums of money in the provision of leadership identification and development programmes for their management staff. The...
View ArticleA Study of the Change Management and Challenges in a Bank
INTRODUCTION Change is inevitable and ubiquitous in a rapidly expanding world. These landscapes of many external forces make it most difficult for organisational survival and prosperity. Indeed, the...
View ArticleA Test of Four Western Scales in a Singaporean Service Organisation
INTRODUCTION Organisations face constant pressure to improve results and stay competitive." (Dreher & Dougherty 2001: 3). To be more efficient and productive, organisations are leveraging on...
View ArticleThreads of Constraint: Ethnic Minority Migrant Women and Employment
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...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Career: A Study of Indian Mobile Knowledge Workers in Tokyo
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...
View ArticleEstablishing a Link between Employee Turnover and Withdrawal Behaviours:...
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...
View ArticleDescriptive Case Study of the Use of Non Cash and Informal Compensation in...
INTRODUCTION Non-cash compensation is increasingly used in Western countries (Hashimoto 2000, Dale-Olsen 2006), and its importance in recruiting and retaining employees has been highlighted by many...
View ArticleOrganisational Support as the Mediator of Career-Related HRM Practices and...
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...
View ArticleBusiness Strategy in the Era of Globalisation: The Case of Konica Minolta
INTRODUCTION Konica Minolta was established in August 2003 through a merger of Konica and Minolta. Konica was founded 130 years ago, and Minolta was founded 79 years ago. Before the merger each company...
View ArticleTraining and Development Evaluation in Jordanian Banking Organisations
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...
View ArticleStrategy, Policy and Practice in the Nationalisation of Human Capital:...
INTRODUCTION Middle Eastern countries are largely perceived as having economies of limited competitiveness in a global context. This situation is largely due to the political, economic, environmental...
View ArticleJob Satisfaction and Turnover Intention Relationship: The Moderating Effect...
INTRODUCTION The exit of low performing employees is beneficial to an organisation. However, the exit of important and valuable human resources from the organisations leads to the loss of the tacit...
View ArticleWRKLFQUAL: A Tool for Measuring Quality of Work Life
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...
View ArticleWhat Happens on Tour, Stays on Tour: Failure and Teams on Short Term...
INTRODUCTION For many years a significant focus of global human resources management (GHRM) research has been the traditional long term expatriate (Bonache, Brewster & Suutari 2001, Brewster &...
View ArticleExploring Workplace Friendships in Business: Cultural Variations of Employee...
INTRODUCTION Increasingly, the workplace is the main crucible for making friends (Shellenbarger 2000:B1), as community organisations and personal networks in neighbourhoods are weakened by catastrophic...
View ArticleEmployee Performance Appraisal Using Data Envelopment Analysis: A Case Study
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....
View ArticleEmployment and Retrenchment Issues in the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New...
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...
View ArticleHuman Resource Management Practices and Firm Performance Improvement in Dhaka...
INTRODUCTION Bangladesh, like many other developing economies, is attracting foreign direct investment to accelerate its economic growth in term employment creation and human capital development. The...
View ArticleThe Relationship between Training and Firm Performance: A Literature Review
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...
View ArticleHeterogeneity of Role Stress
Introduction Stress has always been a part of human existence. Its origin can be traced in the literature to the 17th Century when it was identified with hardship, straits, adversity or affliction as...
View ArticleStrategic Integration of Recruitment Practices and Its Impact on Performance...
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...
View ArticleHow Cultural Determinants May Affect HRM: The Case of Italian Companies in China
Introduction Observing an image in a mirror is the common example used by several scholars to represent a business relationship between Western and Chinese counterparts (Hofstede & Bond 1988,...
View ArticleA Conceptual Model of the Human Resource Climate Dimensions That Influence...
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...
View ArticleDoes Human Resource Management Contribute to the Development of Logistics and...
Introduction Globally, logistics has emerged as a significant growth sector in most nations. Reputed to be the world's manufacturing hub, China is among the nations where the demand for logistics and...
View ArticleAttracting and Retaining Talent: Social Organisational Support as an Emergent...
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...
View ArticleThe Relevance of Human Resource Management Theory on the Management Practices...
Introduction The hospitality industry has often missed out on the benefits of human resource strategies used by management. Among the reasons is the fact that hospitality management has been hived off...
View ArticleThe Comparison of Graded Response Model and Classical Test Theory in Human...
Introduction The quality of a research depends on several factors and one of them is the quality of measurement (Zagorsek 2000). If various aspects of phenomena are not measured properly, wrong...
View ArticleFamily-Work Conflict and the Availability of Work-Family Friendly Policy...
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...
View ArticleThe Impact of Training on Firm Performance in a Transitional Economy:...
INTRODUCTION Academics and professionals in human resource management (HRM) have identified that training policies are critical for improving employee skills, firm performance, and organisational...
View ArticleCompetence Development in the Electronics Industry in Thailand
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....
View ArticleA Preliminary Investigation of Employee Motivation in Pakistan's Banking Sector
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...
View ArticleMultiskilling of Frontline Managers in the Five Star Hotel Industry in Taiwan
INTRODUCTION Human resource (HR) development plays an important role in developing the skills of workers in organisations in order to improve productivity and international competitiveness. A well...
View ArticleWhy Do Women Still Experience Downward Gravitation in the Corporate Ladder? A...
INTRODUCTION Gender discrimination at the workplace has long been a debated issue (Arrow 1971, Lazear & Rosen 1990, Bernard & Laband 1995). The patterns of gender segregation are persistent and...
View ArticleExploring the Rhetoric and Reality of Performance Management Systems and...
INTRODUCTION This paper explores the links between performance management (PM) systems and organisational effectiveness (OE) from the perspectives of managers in arange of organisations and industries...
View ArticleRecruitment of Indigenous Australians with Linguistic and Numeric Disadvantages
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...
View ArticleHuman Resource Management a Function of the Past: A Content Analysis of the...
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...
View ArticleThe Perceived Importance of Cultural Priority for Global Business Operations:...
INTRODUCTION The importance of culture to an organisation's operation and management has been acknowledged (Bond 1991, Lo 1997, Su, Zhang & Hulpke 1998, Watt 1999, Pun, Chin & Lau 2000,...
View ArticleTeam Performance: Where Learning Makes the Greatest Impact
INTRODUCTION The rapidly changing organisational environment coupled with advances in technology has resulted in an increased complexity of work tasks. Consequently, greater interaction between and...
View ArticleThe Interactive Effect of Cultural Intelligence and Openness on Task Performance
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...
View ArticleSustenance of Human Capital: Social Support as a Managerial Stress Reliever...
ABSTRACT Although women managers in Ghana represent an unique set of human capital the adverse consequences of job stressors on their performances make their sustenance in organisations a key human...
View ArticleVietnam's Labour Relations and the Global Financial Crisis
ABSTRACT Labour relations institutions and practices in Vietnam have changed since the economic reform that started in late 1980s. Since joining to the World Trade Organisation (WTO)in 2006, a new...
View ArticlePractitioner Perspective Process Based Role Analysis and Design: Application...
ABSTRACT Contemporary business schools are enmeshed in competitive global environment which compels reexamining the role of the faculty. Process Based Role Analysis and Design (PROBRAD) was employed...
View ArticlePractitioner Perspective Comparison of Performance Appraisal Score: A...
ABSTRACT The performance of employees is evaluated annually based on a numeric scale for deciding on promotions and annual increments. The normalisation of scores is generally done to compare scores of...
View ArticleFostering the Innovative Behaviour of SME Employees: A Social Capital...
ABSTRACT Although developing the innovative behaviour of employees is considered to contribute to improving organisational efficiency and effectiveness, very little is known about innovative behaviour...
View ArticleEditorial
Welcome to this final issue of the Research and Practice in Human Resource Management Journal. It has been more than a decade since the current editorial team from Curtin University joined with our...
View ArticleThe Impact of the Supervisor's Role in Training Programmes on the Transfer of...
ABSTRACT The Malaysian public sector plays a key role in the government's vision to enhance the economic status, assist the growth of industrial and private sectors, and support the country's human...
View ArticleThe Role of Leader-Member Exchange in Organisational Justice: Organisational...
ABSTRACT Perceptions of justice in the workplace are widely recognised as an influential factor in employee attitudes at the workplace. Employees are more likely to exhibit organisational citizenship...
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