Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the status and functional responsibilities of female human resource (HR) directors vary cross‐nationally and how gender egalitarian cultural values affect role differences between female and male HR directors. Design/methodology/approach...

In this paper, we investigate how conventions enable organisational actors to cope with paradoxical tensions in performance appraisal systems. Building on a case study of a performance appraisal system reform in a public sector organisation, we analyse how this organisation enableds superiors to...

Die aktuelle Diskussion ueber betriebliche Gesundheitsfoerderung fokussiert auf freiwillige Massnahmen, fuer die Betriebe zusaetzliche Kosten tragen. Bezug nehmend auf das Konzept des Rationalitaetsmythos im soziologischen Neoinstitutionalismus wird untersucht, welche Gruende fuer betriebliche...

Purpose – While it is acknowledged that societal context matters for employee expectations on training and development, the complexity of this relationship is still little explored. This paper aims to study which higher‐order principles employees of a German and Russian company use to...