There is a worldwide trend towards rapidly growing defined contribution pension funds in terms of assets and membership, and the choices available to individuals. This has shifted the decisionmaking responsibility to fund members for managing the investment of their retirement savings. This...

Boards and Management Committees of nonprofit organisations are often portrayed as lacking the necessary skills and knowledge for the role. To investigate this issue, we undertook a survey of 835 community, nonprofit organisations in the community services sector. We received 565 usable...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of adopting a strategic approach to human resource management (HRM) in professional service firms (PSFs). It provides the empirical evidence by comparing and contrasting the adoption of a strategic approach to HRM in two Australian...

In this study, we examine a variety of management characteristics of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the health services (HS) industry. Data collected from Australian senior executives are used to test the relationships between managerial constructs such as employee commitment,...

The current study seeks to answer a number of key questions concerning the strategicmanagement of frontline employees (e.g. individuals who do not occupy an executive,managerial or supervisory role in functions such as production, maintenance, service andclerical functions) and their...