Purpose: The research empirically investigates the effect of human resource management practices (HRMP), consisting of recruitment and selection, reward as well as recognition, training, performance appraisal (PA) and career development on affective commitment (AC) among employees working for...

Personnel development is a complex economic concept, which is proposed to be understood as the management activities of the enterprise, which involves the formation and increase of quality professional, social, personal characteristics of sta ff to ensure the current and strategic goals of the...

We examine the relationship between managerial incentives and firms' human resource policies by combining Italian social security records with newly collected data on board terms. We exploit the fact that boards of listed companies are appointed every three years as a source of variation in...

The aims of the research are to explore evidence of professional human resource management (HRM) role tensions, the factors that affect HRM role tension, and to consider the impact on management perceptions when role tensions exist. Using a qualitative approach, 25 interviews were conducted in...

Organizational Behavior is the multidisciplinary, academic study of how people interact within groups. The principles of the study of organizational behavior are applied primarily in attempts to make businesses operate more effectively: for instance, improving job performance, increasing job...

Introduction:The basic function of any government is to provide various types of services and facilities to its citizens. The quality of services and facilities greatly depends on how satisfied government employees are, which mainly depends on the way they are paid and allocated, how quickly...

This article is based on a systematic literature review of compensation practices and motivation processes in social sector organisations. The review is divided into two main sub-sections- compensation and motivation. The review of the compensation literature provides a holistic understanding of...

We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance, exploiting the Italian 2015 Jobs Act. Results indicate that firms (1) stabilize workforce mainly through contract transformations of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent...

Purpose – the sustainable human resource management has earned significant attention in the past few years from the researchers and scholars all around the globe. However, there hasn’t been any thorough analysis carried out so far and to fill this gap, this current study offers the...

This article is devised to understand the intricacies of a High-Performance Work System (HPWS) which is comparatively, a modern evolutionary resultant of Human Resource Development Metrics and its analysis. A High-Performance Work System is a specific combination of HR activities, workflow...