Self-leadership is theoretically assumed to be the key management approach in modern knowledge work because it strengthens the employees’ commitment. This study examines the relationship between self-leadership and affective organizational commitment empirically. An underlying assumption in...

Warum und wie Diversity Management Eingang in deutsche Organisationen fand, wird vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund des organisationssoziologischen Neoinstitutionalismus analysiert. Dazu werden qualitative Interviews mit Diversity-Beauftragten mittels einer wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse...

High Performance Work Systems are generally considered to have a positive impact on workers’ well-being. But is this actually the case? This classroom-material will discuss this question from the point of view of “End of Fun”, a controversial and widely-discussed book by Judith Mair...

The last quarter of the nineteenth century undoubtedly marks a watershed in human resource management in public organizations. Indeed, those organizations undergo deep changes which bring with them a number of challenges. Now, at the time when many aspects of public organization management are...

High Performance Work Systems are generally considered to have a positive impact on workers' well-being. But is this actually the case? This article will discuss this question from the point of view of "End of Fun", a controversial and widely-discussed book by Judith Mair (2003), claiming that...

In the process of organizational adaptation to environmental demands, primarily through the anticipated outputs, human resources play a key role. The procuring of necessary human resources, their working commitment and development, are the basic assignments of the management of human resources....

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

Participative management, which appeared during the fifties, seems to bring a new hope and appears today not only as the energy mobilization vector of firms, but also as the key to a better social organization previously endangered by the industrial revolution. Perceived as the entity best...

During last century, Human Resource Management underwent, in both its theoretical and practical applications, deep changes considered by some as a revolution. These mutations are primarily characterized by a questioning of the Fordist and Taylorist models of work organization, which were...

In this editorial the previous and current state of studies in the subject of sustainability are considered and the role of HRM examined. Particular attention is drawn to the range of definitions of 'sustainability' and to prior approaches to Sustainable HRM. The difficulties of studying the...