Explication of the U.S. health care system dysfunction -- The nature and extent of the problem -- The crux of the problem -- Medicine without evidence -- Key players contributing to the system dysfunction -- Politicians/interest groups -- Pharmaceutical companies -- Private health insurers --...

Explication of the U.S. health care system dysfunction -- The nature and extent of the problem -- The crux of the problem -- Medicine without evidence -- Key players contributing to the system dysfunction -- Politicians/interest groups -- Pharmaceutical companies -- Private health insurers --...

'Brain drain' is a phenomenon in which people of a high level of skills, qualifications, and competence, leave their countries and emigrate. One major case of the brain drain happens when students from developing countries studying in the developed countries decide not to return home after their...

Indian software industry has had a phenomenal growth in the last two decades and is expected to sustain this momentum in the foreseeable future. Based on content analysis of 25 cases, the paper identifies several human resource management challenges: managing human resources in globally...

The cultural milieu has a profound influence on employee behaviour in the organisations. In an increasingly diverse workplace and in a more globalised business world, managers, to be effective, need to appreciate behavioural implications of cultural values that employees, organisations, and...

Bass's model of transformational leadership has generated much research. While most of the studies to date have provided basic support for the model, major conceptual and methodological problems that cast doubt on the validity of its theoretical constructs remain. In this paper, I propose an...

Examines five strategic human resource management (HRM) issues using a qualitative methodology. Two of these are related to the central organisational-level constructs of structure and culture. The other three pertain to HR strategy, HR competencies, and HR outsourcing. The study employed the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how creative self-efficacy and physical work environment mediate and moderate the relationship of transformational leadership with employee creativity and organizational innovation. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected from 254...

The devastating economic effects of the Asian financial crisis and US corporate scandals have underscored the need to strengthen corporate governance provisions. Although cronyism has been suggested as a leading cause of the two crises, it has received little attention from scholars. In this...