Environmental context in family resource management

Fundamental differences are described here between the environmental context of management within the private sphere of home and family, and management within the public sphere of government, political and business institutions. We articulate how management differs in the two spheres because of the unique rules and structural principles that govern each sphere, and because of the distinctive ends pursued in each sphere.     

Leadership in a global context: New directions in research and theory development

The goal of this special issue is to present a set of articles that, collectively, explores the interrelationships between national culture, leadership, and organizational behavior. Our hope is that these articles will summarize where the field currently stands, as well as suggest new directions for future research and theory development on this important topic. To achieve this, we include 14 articles from authors representing 13 countries. The methodologies used here include meta-analyses, case studies, and interview studies, although the majority represents conceptual model building based on critical analyses of existing theories and research. Management implications are discussed.     

试论高校人力资源的柔性管理

刚性管理模式凭借硬性的制度和奖惩手段约束职员,但是对于高校来说,鉴于其人员的特殊性,柔性的管理模式更加有效和使用.本文将介绍柔性管理的含义以及高校人力资源管理的必要性和措施.     

试论人力资源管理在高校后勤管理中的功能作用

本文主要分析了人力资源管理的主要功能及高校后勤人力资源管理的现状,并就人力资源管理在高校后勤管理中的重要意义及作用提出了相应见解.     

Road safety perspectives among employees of a multinational corporation in urban India: local context for global injury prevention

In rapidly developing economies, like urban India, where road traffic injury rates are among the world's highest, the corporate workplace offers a non-traditional venue for road safety interventions. In partnership with a major multinational corporation (MNC) with a large Indian workforce, this study aimed to elicit local employee perspectives on road safety to inform a global corporate health platform. The safety attitudes and behaviours of 75 employees were collected through self-report survey and focus groups in the MNC offices in Bangalore and Pune. Analysis of these data uncovered incongruity between employee knowledge of safety strategies and their enacted safety behaviours and identified local preference for interventions and policy-level actions. The methods modelled by this study offer a straightforward approach for eliciting employee perspective for local road safety interventions that fit within a global strategy to improve employee health. Study findings suggest that MNCs can employ a range of strategies to improve the road traffic safety of their employees in settings like urban India including: implementing corporate traffic safety policy, making local infrastructure changes to improve road and traffic conditions, advocating for road safety with government partners and providing employees with education and access to safety equipment and safe transportation options.     

Developing a culturally synergistic approach to international human resource management

This paper offers international human resource (IHR) professionals guidelines how to decide which IHRM approach to choose. In choosing among an adaptive, exportive, or integrated IHR approach, IHR managers may want to consider three decision criteria, e.g. forces for global integration and local adaptation, the cultural component of HRM, and the power dynamics within the MNC. To develop an organization that values cultural differences, IHR professionals may choose a culturally synergistic approach to IHRM. This approach has the potential of designing new combinations of HRM practices and simultaneously attends to the three decision criteria.     

现代企业人力资源管理初探

伴随着信息时代的到来,信息技术和知识经济的迅猛发展已经对我国企业的人力资源管理产生了深远的影响。面对国内企业人力资源管理重管理、轻开发的现象;只强调对员工的开发而忽视对各级管理者素质的提高等问题,企业必须从管理理念、管理制度、管理机制、管理职能、管理手段等多个方面加强和改善人力资源管理工作,使企业在日益激烈的市场竞争中占据主动。     

Employees’ perspectives on strategic human resource development before and after the global financial crisis: evidence from the Greek banking sector

Constantly changing business and economic environments have challenged organizations to re‐think the crucial role of their human resource development (HRD) policies and practices in relation to individual and organizational competitiveness, change and growth. Being proactive/strategic, in HRD terms, corresponds to the concept of strategic HRD maturity, a state evidenced by a specific set of strategic characteristics, but research into this concept within the challenging context of the economic crisis is limited, as is research into employees’ perceptions of it. Previous research has been applied mostly within ‘static’ business and economic environments, with much of the existing strategic HRD models neglecting employees’ perspectives. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 42 bank employees in Greece, with the aim of examining their perceptions of strategic HRD before and after the global financial crisis. The study raises important questions for both HRD academics and practitioners because its findings indicate a setback in the development of HRD. Whilst there were a few contradicting perceptions, the dominant employee view was that strategic HRD was a theoretical notion rather than an organizational reality.