Human Resource Management and Fortune's Corporate Reputation Survey

This study investigates the relationship between human resource objectives and Fortune's corporate reputation score. Questionnaires were received from 83 human resource executives of companies measured in Fortune's survey. The questionnaire measured the degree to which the following HR objectives underlie HR activities: (1) treating employees fairly, (2) improving organizational performance, and (3) complying with the law. Results show that a significant, positive correlation exists between emphasis placed on the fairness objective and corporate reputation.     

企业社会工作:中小企业人力资源管理的催化剂

我国经济发展逐渐步入新常态,在复杂多变的市场环境中,部分中小企业的发展遭遇发展困境。通过对企业现阶段人力资源现状的研究分析发现,中小企业发展同企业人力资源管理重视程度和执行方式密切相关。探索企业社会工作辅助的人力资源管理模式,旨在提升员工工作积极性和幸福感,为企业发展、创新提供崭新路径。     

企业志愿者活动:实现CSR的一个有效路径

企业志愿者活动是企业社会责任践行的重要方式与有效路径。有效的企业志愿者活动可以实现多赢,把社会、经济和环境主体与员工的热情以及企业经营需要匹配起来。通过实施志愿者活动,企业将赢得公众的认同与支持,提升良好的企业、产品或服务的形象,还将有利于员工的组织公民行为的产生。良好的效果源于对企业志愿者活动从战略到战术层面的有效管理,有效的企业志愿者活动管理应该以战略定位为基点,系统的计划为前提,有效的组织为关键,适当的控制为重点。     

Aligning employees with the organization's strategic objectives: out of ‘line of sight’, out of mind

This research focuses on the strategic alignment of a firm's human resources. Specifically, I investigate employee ‘line of sight’ to an organization's strategic objectives. Line of sight is conceptualized as an employee's understanding of an organization's objectives and how to contribute to those objectives. Line of sight was expected to vary across individual characteristics (e.g. hierarchical level, tenure) and relate to important work outcomes (e.g. work attitudes, turnover). Results of a field study confirmed many of the hypotheses, supporting the importance of this construct to research and practice.     

物流企业员工关系管理策略对组织承诺的影响研究

运用员工关系管理和组织行为学的理论,在大量问卷调查的基础上,通过对我国物流企业员工关系管理策略与员工组织承诺之间关系的实证研究,揭示了不同员工个人特征对企业员工关系管理策略的认知和组织承诺的影响,更重要的是揭示了物流企业不同的员工关系管理策略对组织承诺有着显著影响。研究结果对企业员工关系管理策略的调整与改善有一定的借鉴意义。     

Extending beyond borders: Multinational companies and the international management of labour

The paper investigates the potential consequences of MNCs' globalizing strategies for the management of labour, drawing on findings from a survey of employee management among MNCs operating in the UK. It finds clear evidence of transnational forms of management organization, including in the personnel sphere. But it also underlines that moves to globalism are uneven. Structures and policies to develop international management teams were found primarily among certain types of MNC. Most striking was the extent to which MNCs are actively engaged in the management of non-managerial employees at international level. Seven out of every ten companies monitored labour performance across sites in different countries. The broader significance of this finding lies in the business decisions which flow from the use of such information. As MNCs develop continental production strategies, pressures on local workforces, keen to attract future investment, for performance improvements are likely to intensify. These developments pose considerable challenges for labour which remains primarily local and national in its organizational focus.     

Compensation or Right: An Analysis of Employee “Fringe” Benefit Perception

Past research suggests that employee perceptions of the benefits provided to them by their organization can influence employee attitudes. Three factors that appear to influence the perception of benefits by employees are benefit satisfaction, benefit importance, and the perceived motive of the organization in providing the benefit to employees. However, it also appears that some benefits are perceived as rights that are owed to employees by the organization. This study proposes and tests a model of benefit perception that incorporates all of these factors. Results suggest that benefit satisfaction and the perceived motive of the organization in providing a benefit both have a direct relationship with employee attitudes. The perceived right status of a benefit appears to moderate this relationship.     

企业社会责任、企业声誉对员工满意度影响的实证研究

构建了企业社会责任、企业声誉和员工满意度的关系模型,以西北工业大学深圳地区和西安地区MBA班工程硕士学员为调研对象,欲探讨现阶段企业员工对企业社会责任的认知状况。通过构建结构方程模型,实证分析发现:企业社会责任对企业声誉有显著正向影响;企业声誉对员工满意度有显著正向影响;企业社会责任不直接对员工满意度产生影响,而是通过影响企业声誉后对员工满意度产生作用。     

Testing alternative models of human resource policy effects on trade union recognition in the Republic of Ireland

This paper tests two alternative models of human resource policy effects on the incidence of union non-recognition in a sample of over 150 organizations in the Republic of Ireland. A series of scales of human resource policy sophistication is developed, guided by the broad body of theory in the area of HRM. A conceptual model linking HRM policies to union recognition/non-recognition is also elaborated. Two alternative theoretical models of HRM policy effects are developed and estimated using logistic regression. The first of these models, the 'simple additive model', tests for the discrete effects of various areas of human resource policy on the incidence of union non-recognition. Only the management of reward systems along HRM lines is significantly associated with the incidence of non-recognition. A second model, called the 'threshold-fit model' tests for a decisive overall HRM effect on union non-recognition in organizations which implement relatively sophisticated and internally consistent sets of HRM policies. A series of policy cross-dependencies or interaction effects is also allowed for in this model. Contrary to the predictions of the theoretical literature, no empirical support is found that such HRM policy combinations prove particularly impenetrable to trade unions. Line management dominance of HRM policy is found to be a significant factor in predicting non-recognition. The possibility that this factor is indicative of sophisticated human resource management is however discounted. The apparent failure of most areas of human resource policy to depress the likelihood of union recognition in Ireland is accounted for in terms of the wider framework and traditions of industrial relations practice in that country.     

Managing Human Resources in East Asia

This article reports on the management of international assignments (IAs) in fifteen UK companies who have expanded their operations into the international arena over the last three to twelve years.¹The results show that very few of these companies currently follow examples of ‘good practice’ as espoused by most management theorists and other commentators on the management of expatriate assignments. However, at this moment in time, they do not have any significant problems with either high expatriate failure rates (HEFRs) or with staff performing under par on IAs. However, many are experiencing considerable problems with returning expatriate staff. The implications of these findings for expatriate management are discussed in detail.     

French multinational companies’ strategies and co-ordination mechanisms: the role of human resource management in Europe and Nigeria

The everchanging European context may well lead to the evolution of MNCs’ strategies in Europe and to the evolution of the control mechanisms within their subsidiaries. The author analyses the issue from the angle of human resources management, considered as an informal control tool that is widely recognized by both scholars and managers. This research therefore aims at analysing whether or not and how HRM systems embody a possible integration process in the European economic space. The methodology is based on a case study from a French multinational company belonging to the automobile industry while the investigation, a comparative analysis of the headquarters-subsidiaries relationships in England, Spain and Nigeria, points out the specificity of the European context regarding corporate strategy orientations, subsidiary roles and personnel transfer policies. The major conclusions from such an analysis suggest a framework that gives prominence to the differentiation of the management process between Europe and Nigeria.

These results confirm previous literature on co-ordination mechanisms in complex business organizations.