This article focuses on employee performance-management practices in the healthcare sector. We specifically aim to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of employee performance-management practices on affective well-being of nurses in hospitals. Theory suggests that the features of...

This article discusses the effect of academic teaching staff mobility and publication performance. It investigates how international teaching assignments affect research output (measured in terms of publication). The research described covered a large range of publication types (for example in...

We evaluate a number of the claims made in the debate between the prescriptive and critical literature that surrounds `excellence', with a particular focus on human resource and quality management. The critical literature contains two positions, broadly a traditional control perspective and the...