Research on knowledge management in organizations reveals that some projects fail because managers include technological and strategic dimensions in their design, but not human and sociocultural considerations. The formation of communities of practice in organizations represents an alternative...

There is now a substantial body of research examining the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and organisational performance. Much of this research has focused on attempting to specify "bundles" of HRM practices or HRM systems that have an identifiable effect on firm...

No political philosopher is better known in the business world than Niccolo Machiavelli, whose fame there rests entirely on his authoring of The Prince. Over the last two decades, no less than ten books have been published in the popular business press on the Renaissance Italian thinker, most of...

Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial when tacit knowledge in and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms enable different kinds of motivation and have different capacities to generate and transfer tacit knowledge. Since...

This study utilized a predictive, multivariate research design to test the relationship between three independent variables -- supportive organizational leadership, organizational socialization, and satisfaction with supervision -- and the dependent variable -- turnover intent -- as mediated by...

Die Personalökonomik ist eine recht junge (Teil-)Disziplin, die (mikro-)ökonomische Methoden und Erkenntnisse auf die betriebliche Personalfunktion anwendet. Sie ist wissenschaftlich fruchtbar und ist komplementär zu anderen disziplinären Zugängen zu Personalproblemen, während ein...

Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro) economic methodology and insights to the personnel function of companies. It is scientifically fertile and complementary to other disciplinary approaches to personnel issues. Instead of that, an approach without...

With the help of humatics as the theory of operable knowledge characteristics, it is now possible to show how the change of knowledge perspectives appear on the level of controlling data. The example of an employee switching from the Development department to the Sales Department within a...

Deloitte and supporting organization, Bersin, are arguably the world's foremost institutions in researching and offering comprehensive annual reports on the status of modern thinking, and the trends in that thinking, in all facets of organizational operations and performance. The latest 2017...