We discuss a model for analyzing and measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity. Productivity is measured through the Malmquist productivity index approach using Data Envelopment Analysis. A novel component of the model is that in addition to standard...

Mit Blick auf den rasanten Wandel von Arbeitsanforderungen gewinnt die berufliche Weiterbildung auch in der Tarifpolitik an Gewicht. Nach langem Vorlauf mit Tarifregelungen in kleineren Branchen und einzelnen Tarifregionen wurden seit der Jahrtausendwende erstmals auch in grossen Branchen...

In this paper the importance of practice of human resource management as of a significant driver of business ethics in companies has been considered. The basic premise of the paper is the fact that the company’s main source of unethical behaviour is situated in its people’s activities which...

In Romania and other Eastern European countries, the administrative reform was often understood just as the adoption of new laws and regulations; the only instrument of administrative changes being located in the legislation. There were taken ideas, policies, procedures, laws, without properly...

This paper aims at presenting and analysing the performance appraisal systems and the human potential development in hotel units. It aims at integrating and updating many aspects of performance appraisal while concentrating on the hotel units system to prove the importance of human resource...

The main bojective of this study is to investigate the impact of employee performance management system on business process improvement and to find out the importance of employee development through performance management system in order to achieve the superior business goal. This case study...

In the management of human resources, knowledge workers have been considered as adding high value to their organizations and as being the cream of the workforce. The globalization process as well as the easier access to technology has changed this paradigm. Nowadays, the knowledge workers are...

Employees’ commitment is very important for an organization. Once the employees’ commitments reduce, the organization could face the difficulty in retaining the employees. The purpose of this study is to examine whether there is significant relationship between organizational commitment and...

Atypical employment is a new breed of employment manifested by flexible and precarious work arrangements like part-time work and fixed-term contracts. Atypical employment provides the elasticity required by modern organisation to respond quickly to market demands without compromising their...

The study examines the correlation effects between leader-member exchange and organizational citizenship behaviour in a public sector organization in Peninsular Malaysia. Based on previous studies that leader-member relationships contribute to improved performance (e.g., Stewart, 2007), this...