This paper is a contribution at raising awareness of the fact that the commercial activity, consisting primarily in buying and selling, has become so complex and from another point of view, so important for companies in their struggling for market share, that it cannot be anymore performed with...

The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions in training managers may have on their future performance. We argue that training with an emphasis on the standard assumptions used in economics (rationality and self-interest) is good for technical posts but...

Employee satisfaction related to their job, possibilities of career development, mechanisms of performance measurement and reward, as remuneration systems are of growing importance. Expectations of highly educated workforce continuously increase, so recruiting and retention of such workers...

Economic development presumes not only the existence of formal institutions such as property rights and the rule of law under which behave economic agents, but also certain norms or social values that promote exchange, savings and investments. In this context, we discuss cultural dimension of...

An understanding of the organizational cultural preferences of new hires is required in order to achieve a person-organization fit—the key to reducing job turnover and maintaining a committed workforce. In addition, because all organizations socialize new hires (formally or informally) to...

Wird die Arbeitswelt aus mikropolitischer Perspektive betrachtet, geraet das Ringen um Ressourcen und Spielraeume auf der Handlungsebene in den Blick. Wie werden organisationale Change-Prozesse – ob innerbetriebliches Delayering oder die fortschreitende Digitalisierung – strategisch genutzt?...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden individuelle Vorstellungen von Karriere und karrierebezogenem Handeln analysiert und typisiert. Angeknuepft wird an die Diskussion, inwiefern „Einheitsmodelle“ von Karriere ausgedient bzw. jemals umfassende Gueltigkeit besessen haben. Im Zuge der...