Purpose: In the last few decades, the effectiveness of the evaluation of human resources and their performances has become a crucial theme in the debates of the public sector. The purpose of this paper is to analyze key design characteristics of performance management system (PMS) that may be...

Every training process aims to a deep transformation of individual competencies. The success of these programs strongly depends on the level of commitment of the actors involved playing different roles (Public Government, financing body, providers, trainers, firms, workers) and mainly on the...

The firms use a quantity of variables to face their need of flexibility, as for the human resources, there is a continuous huge resort to new temporary contracts, including both LDC – limited duration contracts and TAWs – temporary agency works, which differ from the long-term and permanent...

This paper is related to our previous work (submitted to the 6th New Institutional Workshop, Lyon, 2009) dealing with the analysis of the evolution of the Italian Temporary Work Agencies’ field (TWAs) through the new institutional logics approach. Through this approach, we aimed to analyze the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to interpret employees’ resistance using the perspective of a Foucaultian/post-structuralist approach in critical management studies. The authors examine the relationship between management of diversity, based on employment contract, emotional...