Gabriel Arturo Sánchez de Aparico y Benitéz, Ph.D. Department of Studies on Education University of Guadalajara MEXICO ABSTRACT: After much time in real world you gather firsthand experience of several different jobs, places and duties. Whether in a public or private organization few people seldom take the time to reflect and analyze the previous […]
4. THE ESTONIAN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER
Krista Tuulik & Ruth Alas Estonian Business School, Tallinn Estonia ABSTRACT: Current paper concentrates on the subject of leadership during the years of transformation of Estonian e economy. The socio-economic transformation during the post communist period has been facilitated by conceptualising it in terms of institutional change –– change occurring as a macro-system […]
29. INTERPESRONAL CONFLICTS: STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION, OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERVENTION AND LIMITATIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Harald KUPFER Consulting & Human Resources GERMANY ABSTRACT A large part of a person´s life is spent on the job or in a professional setting. One isn´t alone or isolated, but in more or less periodical or constant contact with one´s work environment co-workers, subordinates, employees, superiors, customers, and so on. Each of them contributes […]
4. TRADE UNION INFLUENCE ON HRM: EXPERIENCE FROM INDIAN BANKING INDUSTRY
Jacob MANKIDY National Institute of Bank Management Pune 411 048 INDIA ABSTRACT: Looking back one can trace the efforts of unions in exerting influences on firm policies and procedures relating to people management. The trade union movement in India, like in many other countries, has also been instrumental in bringing about changes in […]
4. PLEADING FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE, A REAL NECESSITY FOR THE ROMANIAN’S ORGANIZATIONS
Lect. Ph.D. candidate Denisa ABRUDAN-POP Prof. Ph.D. Emilia NOVAC West University of Timisoara ROMANIA ABSTRACT: In Romanian organizations, a part of the managers deal with big problems regarding the efficiency of human resources, known that this resource is no longer a simple resource. Nowadays, the high performance organizations are the ones that gives […]
4. NEW TRENDS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMANET IN JAPAN
Koji OKUBAYASHI Kobe University Rokkodai – Cho Nada, Kobe Hyogo 657 JAPAN INTRODUCTION: It has been that “Lifetime Employment“, “Seniority Wage System“ and “Enterprise Union“ are the main characteristics of Japanese management, which brought the “Japanese Miracles“ of high economic growth in 1950´s and 1960´s. These three characteristics are called the „Three Sacreds“ […]
4. DRASTIC CHANGES OF CHINESE CIVIL LIFE AND MANAGEMENT IN THE LAST SIX YEARS
Koji OKUBAYASHI Kobe University Rokkodai –cho Nada, Kobe Hyogo 657 JAPAN ABSTRACT: In the execution of the economic reform of socialist China in the 1980´s, the Chinese central government enhanced the principle of market economy for economic development. It promoted primarily privatisation of enterprises and introduction of foreign investment. In the 1980´s, special areas […]
33. THE COEXISTENCE OF FLEXIBILITY OF LABOUR AND COMMITMENT STRATEGIES IN COMPANIES IN EUROPE: CONTRADICTION OR INTERACTION?
Evelyne LEONARD & Bénédicte VANDE VELDE Institut d´Administration et de Gestion Université Catholique de Louvain BELGIUM ABSTACT: In the last decade, two broad types of topics have been given much attention in the literature in human resource management: on the one hand, commitment strategies constitute a major topic in publications; on the other […]
17. ECONOMIC GROWTH – A WAY TO HAPPINESS?
Mária Bláhová University of Economics in Bratislava Slovakia ABSTRACT: Since the dawn of the mankind, since the very first moments as the Earth was peopled, the most pressing problem for its habitants was the struggle for subsistence. This combat has always been connected with searching adequate and sufficient sustenance resources. Throughout centuries the human […]
29. PROCESS AND INTERFACES – A NEW FOCUS OF LEDEARSHIP PROCESS- AND INTERFACE-ORIENTED CONTROLLING
Cliff Rehr Philip Morris GmbH. GERMANY ABSTRACT: Due to international recessive economic tendencies within important markets and the deriving growing international competition driven by globalization, many national and international operating companies driven by globalization, many national and international operating companies initiative new measures to reshape their business models. Changes in business units and […]
49. IS EMPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITY THE RIGHT ANSWER TO UNEMPLOYMENT?
Ľubica BAJZÍKOVÁ Comenius University Bratislava Helena ŠAJGALÍKOVÁ University of Economics Bratislava SLOVAKIA ABSTRACT: The recent developments in employment arrangements have witnessed the shift towards their more flexible nature. Multiple survey and analyses have established the scope of the affairs labelled employment flexibility. The article presents the overview of the most frequent forms of such flexible work […]
16. WORKPLACE PLURALISM IN THE ERA OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: THE INDIAN SCENARIO
Debi S. SAINI Senior faculty Human Resource management Area Delhi College of Arts & Commerce University of Delhi INDIA ABSTRACT: This paper assesses the HRM developments in India, and asks what impact the changed HRM thinking will make on workplace pluralism in the country. It also reflects on why HRM in India is limited to […]
16. DO MANAGERS ALWAYS WANT TO BE PAID IN STOCKS AND STOCK OPTIONS? CEO COMPENSATION IN A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY
Janez PRASNIKAR Andreja CIRMAN Ajoša VALENTINCIC University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics Anuska FERLIGOJ University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences SLOVENIA ABSTRACT: Results to date do not entirely confirm the hypothesis that privatized enterprises in transition economies, including Slovenia, operate more efficiently than before privatization. Some of the factors influencing restructuration are: adverse economic […]
10. ASPECTS OF CORPORATE CULTURE IN THE CHEMICAL ENTERPRISE
Pavel HERZKA Department of Management Faculty of Technology Bratislava SLOVAKIA ABSTRACT: The contribution submitted is aimed at one of the most important aspects of developing the strong corporate culture in the particular conditions of chemical enterprises participating in the economy of the Slovak Republic. Right away at the beginning it is necessary to note that […]
16. LEADERSHIP IN ROMANIAN’S ORGANIZATIONS
Lect. Ph. D. candidate Denisa ABRUDAN-POP Prof. Ph. D. Emilia NOVAC West University of Timisoara ROMANIA ABSTRACT: The present paper work presents the main characteristics of leadership in Romanian organizations based on a study made on several companies in the West part of Romania. The results are interesting and they are a point of reference […]