Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contributors -- About the editors -- Contents -- PART I Historical and evolutionary perspective -- 1. The changing nature of work, employment and flexibility -- 2. Exploring the shifting landscape of work and employment: the interplay between technology, flexibility,...

1. Expatriate adjustment -- 2. Staking out the territory : a survey of adjustment theories -- 3. Dimensions, domains, dynamics : a 3-D model of adjustment -- 4. Dimensions of adjustment -- 5. Domains of adjustment -- 6. Dynamics of adjustment -- 7. Antecedents -- 8. Outcomes of adjustment -- 9....

This paper uses a substantial international database to provide the widest and the most detailed analysis to date of financial participation across Europe. It explores the antecedents of broad-based share ownership and profit sharing schemes. It is found that country effects are important...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the nature of undeclared work in South East Europe and the rest of the European Union and in doing so, to evaluate critically the validity of depicting the character of undeclared work as being the same everywhere....

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the level of convergence in employment practices among firms in the post‐communist countries and capitalist countries in South Eastern Europe. Firms from a total of ten countries were included in the post‐communist block and firms from Greece and Turkey...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an original picture of a selection of human resource management (HRM) activities in the micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hungary and to explore the extent to which these activities can be related to variations in firm size and variations...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a number of initiatives which have been spearheaded by the Romanian government in the field of HRM in the civil service. A more specific purpose is to determine the modelling strategy which best reflects the reform programme of HRM in the civil...