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View article: Age and Career Resilience Through the Lens of Life Course Theory: Examining Individual Mechanisms and Macro‐Level Context Across 28 Countries
Age and Career Resilience Through the Lens of Life Course Theory: Examining Individual Mechanisms and Macro‐Level Context Across 28 Countries Open
Career resilience is critical to the world's aging workforce, aiding older workers in adapting to the ever‐evolving nature of work. While ageist stereotypes often depict older workers as less resilient when faced with workplace changes, ex…
View article: Dr Who? Identity Crucibles and the DBA Doctoral Degree
Dr Who? Identity Crucibles and the DBA Doctoral Degree Open
This paper explores the triggers and identity crucibles facing professional doctorate students pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). Unlike prior research, which centres on full‐time PhD students, our study examines the id…
View article: Developing organizations’ dynamic capabilities and employee mental health in the face of heightened geopolitical tensions, polarized societies and grand societal challenges
Developing organizations’ dynamic capabilities and employee mental health in the face of heightened geopolitical tensions, polarized societies and grand societal challenges Open
The year 2023 witnessed intensified geopolitical tensions, military conflicts, and international economic sanctions, with heightened risks and uncertainties for businesses, especially multinational enterprises. In this editorial for 2024, …
View article: Individuals' career perceptions in different institutionalized contexts: A comparative study of career actors in liberal, coordinated, hierarchical and mediterranean market economies
Individuals' career perceptions in different institutionalized contexts: A comparative study of career actors in liberal, coordinated, hierarchical and mediterranean market economies Open
Leveraging Weiner's attribution theory of intrapersonal motivation at the micro level and varieties of capitalism theory at the macro level, we conduct a multi‐country and cross‐level study examining whether individuals' career goals (i.e.…
View article: Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other
Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other Open
Effective integration of the Regular and Reserve Armed Forces is essential to operational effectiveness, but evidence suggests that this remains problematic. Past research has focused on the professional values of Regulars and the percepti…
View article: Careers: what they are and how to look at them
Careers: what they are and how to look at them Open
Careers are central to people’s lives, but difficult to describe and understand. Building on the notion that everyone participating in the workforce has a career, this chapter presents the major building blocks of careers along three dimen…
View article: One, two, many ways - a hands-on guide to how to navigate this book
One, two, many ways - a hands-on guide to how to navigate this book Open
This book contains career stories in context from all the populated continents in the world. It demonstrates how to look at careers from various perspectives. The stories are grouped in to 6 key themes: personal characteristic, stability a…
View article: Careers in turbulent environments: the impact of 'Brexit' on career motivations and behaviour in the United Kingdom
Careers in turbulent environments: the impact of 'Brexit' on career motivations and behaviour in the United Kingdom Open
This chapter explores the effects that the ‘hostile environment’ policy of the British government and the eventual exit of the United Kingdom (UK) from the EU, has had on the careers of international workers. Using insights from the career…
View article: Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion Open
The composition of the workforce, the pool of potential job applicants, and the diversity of the workplace are changing. In this chapter, we focus on the future of workplace diversity and inclusion of human workers, as well as how diversit…
View article: Technology in Human Resource Functions: Core Systems, Emerging Trends and Algorithmic Management
Technology in Human Resource Functions: Core Systems, Emerging Trends and Algorithmic Management Open
Technology continues to shape how we work and manage our workforce.Yet, the human resource (HR) function often lags behind other business functions when it comes to the implementation of technologies.In this chapter, we explore the core HR…
View article: The value of international assignments through the lens of real-options-reasoning
The value of international assignments through the lens of real-options-reasoning Open
Studies over several decades demonstrate that international assignments (IAs) are implemented for a variety of reasons and yet their total organizational value is generally not assessed nor theoretically understood. We suggest that a new t…
View article: The international transfer of individual career capital: exploring and developing a model of the underlying factors
The international transfer of individual career capital: exploring and developing a model of the underlying factors Open
Purpose The purpose of this literature review is to critically analyze, synthesize and integrate the currently fragmented literature concerning the factors affecting the international transfer of individual career capital (CC). Design/meth…
View article: The disabling effects of enabling social policies on organisations’ human capital development practices for women
The disabling effects of enabling social policies on organisations’ human capital development practices for women Open
Paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are social policies designed to enhance parents' labour force participation. These policies influence not only men's and women's decisions regarding their labour market activity but als…
View article: Building sustainable societies through human-centred human resource management: emerging issues and research opportunities
Building sustainable societies through human-centred human resource management: emerging issues and research opportunities Open
In this paper, we argue that adopting a human-centred approach to human resource management (HRM) will contribute to building sustainable workforces, organizations, communities and societies against a backdrop of a global pandemic and poli…
View article: Generations in context: The development of a new approach using Twitter and a survey
Generations in context: The development of a new approach using Twitter and a survey Open
Millennials (born between 1982 and 1999) and their work‐related values have received significant attention in recent years, but empirical evidence of Millennials’ characteristics is inconclusive. One possible reason behind these mixed resu…
View article: Institutional duality and human resource management practice in foreign subsidiaries of multinationals
Institutional duality and human resource management practice in foreign subsidiaries of multinationals Open
We examine how institutional context affects the decisions that subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs) make in pursuing particular human resource management (HRM) practices in response to institutional duality. Drawing on Variet…
View article: Generational categories: A broken basis for human resource management research and practice
Generational categories: A broken basis for human resource management research and practice Open
This provocation challenges the use of generational categories as a valid and useful basis for the development of human resource management (HRM) research and practice. We present two provocations. First, that a focus solely on year of bir…
View article: Localization of staff in a hostile context: an exploratory investigation in Afghanistan
Localization of staff in a hostile context: an exploratory investigation in Afghanistan Open
Hostile environments pose a distinct threat to international organizations and their staff and yet they are under researched within the literature on IHRM. Localization of staff may present a means to manage some of the risks and also to p…
View article: Going straight into work from school: Young people’s hoped-for occupational possible selves
Going straight into work from school: Young people’s hoped-for occupational possible selves Open
The latest (2016/17) destination figures for 18 year olds in England from the Department for Education (2018) showed that 22% of young people entered work directly following compulsory schooling; 6% started an apprenticeship; and the large…
View article: IJHRM after 30 years: taking stock in times of COVID-19 and looking towards the future of HR research
IJHRM after 30 years: taking stock in times of COVID-19 and looking towards the future of HR research Open
In this paper, we take stock of what The International Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM) has achieved in the past 30 years since its inception in 1990. By analyzing the publication trends indicated by keywords, we find that rese…
View article: The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalisation
The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalisation Open
The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalization is the first book to compare the Asiatic Generation Z (born 1990–1995) in terms of country and culture specific drivers and characteristics based on interdisciplin…
View article: The organizational value of international assignments – the relational underpinning
The organizational value of international assignments – the relational underpinning Open
The organizational value of international assignments (IAs), is unclear and rarely measured by organizations. We argue that taking a relational perspective may enable a greater understanding of the value of IAs to organizations. A relation…
View article: International assignments – extending an organizational value framework
International assignments – extending an organizational value framework Open
Purpose This study aims to present a framework relating to the organizational value of international assignments (IAs). This extends the existing framework by Lepak et al. (2007) and applies to other fields researching questions of value. …
View article: Laying the foundations of international careers research
Laying the foundations of international careers research Open
As an editorial to the special issue “new avenues in international careers research” this article discusses the roots of the international careers research stream, which sits at the intersection between career studies, HRM and internationa…
View article: Balancing Rigour and Relevance: The Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Conducting Large‐Scale, Multi‐country and Comparative Management Studies
Balancing Rigour and Relevance: The Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Conducting Large‐Scale, Multi‐country and Comparative Management Studies Open
Collecting large‐scale comparative management data from multiple countries poses challenges in demonstrating methodological rigour, including the need for representativeness. We examine the rigour of sample representativeness, the counterb…
View article: Still feeling employable with growing age? Exploring the moderating effects of developmental HR practices and country-level unemployment rates in the age – employability relationship
Still feeling employable with growing age? Exploring the moderating effects of developmental HR practices and country-level unemployment rates in the age – employability relationship Open
A compelling issue for organizations and societies at large is to ensure external employability of the workforce across workers’ entire work-life span. Using the frameworks of age norms, stereotyping and age meta-stereotypes, we investigat…
View article: Important issues in human resource management: introduction to the 2020 review issue
Important issues in human resource management: introduction to the 2020 review issue Open
In this fourth annual review issue published by The International Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM), we are delighted to present five articles that cover some of the important areas in people management in contemporary work sett…
View article: Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour
Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour Open
Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organisational‐level variables, we provide insights into how career goals and be…
View article: Generations Z in Europe
Generations Z in Europe Open
Generations Z in Europe brings together differing geographic perspectives from a range of researchers to present a fascinating picture of the contemporary reality for ‘Gen-Z’ workers from nine European countries. The findin…