Purpose – While the charity retail literature emphasizes the richness of human resource practices among charity retailers, it rarely makes the link between these practices and their interest for establishing charity retailers' brands. Simultaneously, while the retail branding literature...

Purpose – To understand the impact of product specificity on organizational practices of retailers at the store level. Design/methodology/approach – An Aokian framework is used that enables one to discriminate between food products according to their informational properties, and to connect...

The principle of distributing the incomes according to the production elements implies that the value of employees’ human resources should be considered in the distribution. The incomes should be distributed according to employees’ abilities and performances in the course of generating...

Purpose – The paper aims to show that human resource management professionals need to consider the uniqueness of Native, indigenous, and traditional people. Design/methodology/approach – A number of key issues demanding attention are analyzed in a non‐exhaustive discussion of relevant...

Purpose – Human development is the most modern development approach. However, the proposed human development indexes for implementation of Islamic human resource management (HRM) do not suffice to realize the Islamic developed society. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model of harm indicators of negative externality (NE) of organizational practices, to help practitioners and researchers identify the harmful aspects associated with the unsustainable internal efficiency focused organizational...

Presents the key issues in the field of human resource management against the background of the socio‐economic system transformation in Poland. These issues concern the impact of external conditions on this management process. The crucial ones among such conditions are: the economic situation,...

The major ethical questions occuring in the process of personnel management are reviewed. These issues become particularly pronounced in the transition countries during the process of transformation of their economic and social system. Their specific character is determined not only by the...