The theme for the 2017 SMS Annual Conference, “Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity,” embraces these challenges and the types of unconventional (i.e., unusual, avant-garde, exceptional, against-the-grain) strategies that might be used to address them.

Theme of the conference is "Searching for Sustainability in Future Working Life". The range of possible topics includes, but is not limited to, the following themes from the perspective of working life: - Workforce diversity, intersectionality, inclusion and equality, - 24/7 demands,...

Topics: - HRM models from emerging markets, - Institutional and cultural perspectives on IHRM, - HRM in multinational enterprises, - High performance work systems in different national settings, - Expatriate management and global careers, - IHRM and informal social ties and networks, - Global...

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific study of working and the application of that science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, and organizations. The scientific method is applied to investigate issues of critical relevance to individuals, businesses, and society.

The goals of ECIC 2012 are to provide a platform for presenting different academic and professional approaches (i.e. conceptual, empirical, managerial, multidisciplinary and case studies etc.) and discussions on recent developments and the outlook for the future in the field of intellectual...