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Focuses on new trends that have been identified for Canadian human resources (HR): the emergence of new roles for HR; new forms of partnerships, particularly in the labor‐management relations; globalizations in daily HR operations; work life issues; programs to tackle the shifting...
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Labour markets in transition: the case of Eastern Europe. In 1989 a political revolution in the Soviet Union and its Eastern Europeansatellites led to the dismantling of Communist controls and transition toward freemarkets in goods and services and factors of production
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Changes in internal and external labor markets through externalization of the workforce or the development of contingent and core distinctions have been intensified in Australia by globalization, competitive pressures and political changes. An extensive literature describes and analyzes these...
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Global outsourcing is a management strategy by which an organization delegates major, non‐core functions to specialized … and efficient service providers. Global outsourcing represents a significant shift in the way organizations manage and … staff their business support activities. While global outsourcing has received considerable attention from practitioners and …
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Purpose – Outsourcing is gaining considerable popularity in the field of business services and management. The purpose … of this paper is to illustrate the practice of outsourcing human resource management (HRM) functions, such as training … stage of development, with limited credibility, while the customers lack the experience of managing outsourcing relations …
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Purpose – Since the mid‐1990s, offshore production has become increasingly important in white‐collar, service sector activities in the US economy. This development coincided with a stagnant gender wage gap in the service sector and a slowdown in the narrowing of the overall US gender wage...
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resource availability and resource needs, influence HR outsourcing. The study examines the subject of human resource (HR …) outsourcing. Design/methodology/approach – The potential influence of firms' characteristics on HR outsourcing is analysed … size and previous reorganization activities significantly raise the probability of an HR outsourcing. In contrast, there is …
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resource availability and resource needs, influence HR outsourcing. The study examines the subject of human resource (HR …) outsourcing. Design/methodology/approach – The potential influence of firms' characteristics on HR outsourcing is analysed … size and previous reorganization activities significantly raise the probability of an HR outsourcing. In contrast, there is …
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Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to study opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of...
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The deteriorating labour market position of low‐skilled workers challenges economic efficiency and social equity. Four aspects are examined: joblessness among the low‐skilled; the prevalence of low pay among women; persistence in low pay; and the overlap between low pay and household poverty....
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