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View article: GWO in Interesting Times: Joint Editorial
GWO in Interesting Times: Joint Editorial Open
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View article: Training Investments and Innovation Gains in Knowledge Intensive Businesses: The Role of Firm Level Human Capital and Knowledge Sharing Climate
Training Investments and Innovation Gains in Knowledge Intensive Businesses: The Role of Firm Level Human Capital and Knowledge Sharing Climate Open
Training investments are important in securing innovation gains. However, research on this relationship in knowledge intensive businesses is nascent. In particular, questions remain concerning what value different types of training hold fo…
View article: Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights and Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Call to Action
Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights and Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Call to Action Open
This commentary considers c ompany‐sponsored fertility benefits (CSFBs) and their use by organizations. We highlight the lack of attention to these benefits in the gender and management literature. Indeed, despite the importance of the top…
View article: Work re‐entry following maternity leave for first‐time mothers: An events, social identity and intersectional theories informed identity work framework
Work re‐entry following maternity leave for first‐time mothers: An events, social identity and intersectional theories informed identity work framework Open
Many first‐time mothers experience significant identity issues on work re‐entry following maternity leave, an important individual and life‐related event. Work re‐entry prompts significant identity tensions leading to identity work challen…
View article: Legitimating Organizational Secrecy
Legitimating Organizational Secrecy Open
This paper brings into focus the concept of organizational secrecy by senior managers in the context of a major strategic change program. Underpinned by legitimation theory and utilizing a narrative methodology and a longitudinal investiga…
View article: Extreme work in organizations: mapping the field and a future research agenda
Extreme work in organizations: mapping the field and a future research agenda Open
Despite the growing interest in the phenomenon of extreme work amongst academics, policy makers and the media, the area is characterized by different constructs, terminology, and disparate research findings on both contexts and outcomes. T…
View article: Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks
Leadership development in the Hong Kong Civil Service: Accessing social resources through guanxi networks Open
Drawing on guanxi and conservation of resources theory we explore how close personal ties between middle managers who participated in leadership development, constitutes an important social resource in an East Asian public sector context. …
View article: Learning And Development Practitioners in Organisations: Organising, Belonging, Learning And Performing Tensions
Learning And Development Practitioners in Organisations: Organising, Belonging, Learning And Performing Tensions Open
This paper provides a review of the literature on the learning and development (L&D) role in organisations using the lens of paradox theory. I evaluate prior literature and organise it around four paradoxes: organising, belonging, learning…
View article: Despotic Leadership and Front-Line Employee Deviant Work Behaviors in Service Organizations: The Roles of Moral Disengagement and Moral Identity
Despotic Leadership and Front-Line Employee Deviant Work Behaviors in Service Organizations: The Roles of Moral Disengagement and Moral Identity Open
Research on despotic leadership and its impacts on the behavior of front-line employees (FLE) in service organizations is nascent. Drawing on the social cognitive theory of morality, we develop and test a model in two service settings inve…
View article: Authors’ Biographies
Authors’ Biographies Open
She teaches courses in work-life integration, HRD strategy, organization development, and managerial coaching.Dr. Eversole's primary research interest is studying how to make workplaces more accommodating of the non-work lives of employees…
View article: JURIDICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE 167 PARAGRAPH (1) CONCERNING AGE AND WORKERS' RETIREMENT RIGHTS IN LAW NUMBER 13 OF 2003
JURIDICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE 167 PARAGRAPH (1) CONCERNING AGE AND WORKERS' RETIREMENT RIGHTS IN LAW NUMBER 13 OF 2003 Open
Background. The National Development of the Republic of Indonesia is carried out in the context of the human development of Indonesia as a whole and the development of Indonesian society as a whole to create a society that is prosperous, j…
View article: A conservation of resources perspective on public sector employee work engagement
A conservation of resources perspective on public sector employee work engagement Open
Research on how and when leader–member exchange (LMX) impacts work engagement in different public sector contexts and categories of employees is scarce. Utilising conservation of resources theory, we advance research on LMX and work engage…
View article: Subjective well‐being, COVID‐19 and financial strain following job loss: stretching the role of human resource management to focus on human sustainability beyond the workplace
Subjective well‐being, COVID‐19 and financial strain following job loss: stretching the role of human resource management to focus on human sustainability beyond the workplace Open
The unprecedented COVID‐19 pandemic resulted in significant negative consequences for employee well‐being across the globe, including job loss leading to significant financial strain. Job loss and financial strain have important implicatio…
View article: Chinese students entrepreneurial career anchors, self-cultivation and the role of in-group collectivist values and gender: a conservation of resources perspective
Chinese students entrepreneurial career anchors, self-cultivation and the role of in-group collectivist values and gender: a conservation of resources perspective Open
Using Conservation of Resources theory (COR) as our conceptual framework we investigate the relationship between the entrepreneurial career anchor (ECA) and self-cultivation (SC) values of Chinese business students. We additionally examine…
View article: Digital Learning: A Bright New Dawn for Learning and Development
Digital Learning: A Bright New Dawn for Learning and Development Open
There has been a steady increase in the use of digital learning media, a trajectory which was accelerated in recent years due to a myriad of factors. Definitions of digital learning are quite diverse but generally can be categorised into f…
View article: Creativity development and Mode 2 theory development: Event system and experiential learning perspectives
Creativity development and Mode 2 theory development: Event system and experiential learning perspectives Open
Literature on academic‐stakeholder collaboration in the context of HRM is scarce and highlights the challenges linking theory to practice. Drawing on Mode 2 research, we theorise how a structured intervention enables the generation of theo…
View article: Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses Open
Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox theory. Multiple ins…
View article: Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective
Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective Open
In this chapter, we propose that EETPs should be understood as a lifelong dynamic process and highlight how entrepreneur knowledge, skills and abilities develop across the lifespan (Bohlmann et al., 2017; Brieger et al., 2021). A lifespan …
View article: Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda
Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda Open
Conceptualization of national human resource development (NHRD) emphasizes that it is an ongoing development process of the individual that is shaped by context. However, the extant literature has focused primarily on describing and evalua…
View article: Understanding the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Indonesia in the context of increased government regulation: a legitimacy-as-perception perspective
Understanding the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Indonesia in the context of increased government regulation: a legitimacy-as-perception perspective Open
Purpose The authors explore the metaphors people from Indonesia use to describe their propriety beliefs about the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS). This paper aims to understand why there is a con…
View article: High-performance work practices and labour productivity: a six wave longitudinal study of UK manufacturing and service SMEs
High-performance work practices and labour productivity: a six wave longitudinal study of UK manufacturing and service SMEs Open
This study utilises both evolutionary resource-based view (EBRV) and open systems theory to investigate the long term impact of high-performance work practices (HPWPs) on labour productivity in UK manufacturing and service sector SMEs. We …
View article: Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence
Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence Open
Many employees experience work–family conflict (WFC) and family–work conflict (FWC), multidimensional states of resource depletion. In this paper, we conceptualize Type A and B personality as resource depletion and resource gain scenarios …
View article: Putting the<i>system</i>back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda
Putting the<i>system</i>back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda Open
Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers over a 40‐year per…
View article: Untangling the Complexity of HRM & Employment Relations in the Gig Economy
Untangling the Complexity of HRM & Employment Relations in the Gig Economy Open
The growing gig economy has emerged as a significant theme of discussion in the world of work. Involving dynamic multi-party working arrangements between workers, digital platform organizations and requesters (i.e. customers), the gig econ…
View article: Coaction Interrupted: Logic Contestations in the Implementation of Inter‐organisational Collaboration around Talent Management in the Public Sector in Scotland
Coaction Interrupted: Logic Contestations in the Implementation of Inter‐organisational Collaboration around Talent Management in the Public Sector in Scotland Open
Our study explores how human resources (HR) actors from 24 public sector organisations in Scotland interpret and address multiple and competing institutional logics in the context of the implementation of an inter‐organisational collaborat…
View article: An exploration of the professional and leader identity of IT professionals transitioning to a permanent hybrid role: a longitudinal investigation
An exploration of the professional and leader identity of IT professionals transitioning to a permanent hybrid role: a longitudinal investigation Open
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role of professional and leader identity and the maintenance of identity, through identity work as IT professionals transitioned to a permanent hybrid role. This study therefore contribut…