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Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities Open
Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increasingly complex needs of vulnerable commun…
Human Resource Development (HRD) Meets Human Resource Management (HRM): A Skills Based Agenda for a FRAGILE World Order Open
Problem HRD and HRM can sometimes operate in silos or at cross-purposes. The increasingly FRAGILE world order confronting business (i.e., Fragmenting boundaries; Resurgent populism; Accelerated digitalisation; Growing inequality; Inverted …
Untangling human resource management and employee wellbeing relationships: Differentiating job resource HR practices from challenge demand HR practices Open
In the strategic HR literature, current empirical results on the relationship between HR practices and employee wellbeing are mixed and contradictory. Based on the job resources and demands model and the fine‐tuned challenge‐hindrance dema…
Higher Education and Skills for the Future(s) of Work Open
This chapter takes a macro-level approach to explore key skills required for the future(s) of work in a digital era. It will explore how the future skills highlighted both impact on, and can be co-created and nurtured through, formal yet f…
In search of the next growth episode: How firms catalyse and sustain periods of high growth Open
This is an introductory article to the special issue In Search of the Next Growth Episode: How Firms Catalyse and Sustain Periods of High Growth. The article reviews alternative streams of research on firm growth, including ‘random growth’…
Accommodating HRM in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): A Critical Review Open
The significance and imprint of SMEs as dominant employers is not proportionally reflected in people management scholarship. In an effort to map out the prospects for greater understanding, this paper critically evaluates the prevailing un…
View article: HRM system strength and employee well‐being: the role of internal process and open systems
HRM system strength and employee well‐being: the role of internal process and open systems Open
This article draws on HRM system strength to further a process‐based understanding of how HRM can impact employee well‐being. The research contributes to new understanding using internal process climate as a mediator in the HR system stren…
View article: Guest editorial
Guest editorial Open
The motivation in proposing this special issue was to explore the links between human capital, high involvement work and well-being. In this overview, we review the state of the art of research on human capital, high involvement work and w…
View article: Managing a mega-project to explore and enhance careers: insights from Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3
Managing a mega-project to explore and enhance careers: insights from Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 Open
Contemporary careers are changing and face many challenges. This creates a need for innovative cross-cultural and multidisciplinary research. In this chapter, twenty-three participants in a European/South Korean research mega-project provi…
Unpacking the role of innovation capability: Exploring the impact of leadership style on green procurement via a natural resource-based perspective Open
In response to the growing urgency of environmental concerns in civil society, governments have been accelerating their pursuit of green procurement. However, green procurement faces substantial barriers and challenges that are internal to…
Navigating the shifting landscapes of HRM Open
A confluence of mega-trends mean that HR is experiencing disruption and change on an unprecedented scale. This special issue is designed to inform our understanding of these shifting landscapes of HRM. In this overview we detail the broad …
A <span>quarter‐century review of HRM in small and medium‐sized enterprises</span>: <span>Capturing what we know</span>, <span>exploring where we need to go</span> Open
Despite the proliferation of HRM research, only a small fraction explores the context of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Where HRM in SMEs has received attention, the literature base remains fragmented and variable, comprising a…
Editorial: global entrepreneurial talent management challenges and opportunities for HRD Open
This special issue of the International Journal of HRD Practice, Policy and Research brings together on-going work from the Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management3 (GETM3) project. GETM3 is a European Union Research Innovation and Staff …
Towards a new web of rules Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review “institutional experimentation” for protecting workers in response to the contraction of the standard employment relationship and the corresponding rise of “non-standard” forms of paid work. D…
Beyond disciplines: Can design approaches be used to develop education for jobs that don't yet exist? Open
At a time when the role and purpose of universities is increasingly being questioned; when modes of study are increasingly varied; when higher education has become increasingly marketised; when large employers are declaring that a degree w…
Employment relations and human resource management Open
This chapter locates the emergence and significance of key intersections of human resource management (HRM) and employment relations (ER) in a threefold manner. First, the chapter traces the origins of HRM, highlighting the importance of l…
Perceptions of HRM system strength and affective commitment: the role of human relations and internal process climate Open
Traditional HRM research has predominantly focused on both the content and/or bundling of HR practices, typically reported by managerial respondents. This paper extends knowledge by examining the diffusion of HR processes as an indication …
Building to grow or growing to build: insights from Irish high-growth SMEs (HGSMEs) Open
Relative to the overall population of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), high-growth SMEs (HGSMEs) make a disproportionate contribution to economic growth. While research has identified factors that characterise HGSMEs, it is yet …
Microfoundations of dynamic capabilities for innovation: a review and research agenda Open
This paper provides a conceptual overview of the microfoundations of dynamic capabilities for innovation. A critical evaluation of dynamic capabilities theory highlights its contested nature and significant limitations in its application. …
Unravelling the foci of employee commitment Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend understanding regarding the basis and foci of employee commitment. It does so by exploring the direction towards employee centric rather than an assumed organisation basis of commitment. Desig…
Book review: Developing leadership: Questions business schools don’t ask Open
Business schools are increasingly said to be in crisis. What is clear from this collection is that the malaise is more significant than one single event can capture and is deeply rooted in a foundation of moribund theories and amoral assum…
Exploring the HRM-performance relationship: the role of creativity climate and strategy Open
Purpose – While an established stream of research evidence has demonstrated that human resource management (HRM) is positively related to organisational performance, explanations of this relationship remain underdeveloped, while performanc…