The importance of personal connections and relationships, or ?guanxi?, when doing business with theChinese is widely acknowledged amongst Western academics and business managers alike. However,aspects of guanxi related behaviours in the workplace are often misunderstood by Westerners withsome...

Studies on the three types of process improvement programmes(Continuous Improvement, Reengineering and Benchmarking) have appeared manytimes in the literature. These studies suggest that certain organizational variables actas enablers and their presence or absence can significantly influence...

Trust, rather than being simply a resource for establishing collaborative relationships between organizations,is an essential component of their constitution. At base, trust involves interpersonal relations of a specifictype. These are relations where there is sufficient probability that a...

The new organizational forms literature argues that in a dynamic businessenvironment, ?new? ways of organizing are required to ensure speed, flexibilityand innovation. Originally it was asserted that the ?new? organizational practices,after a period of transition, would replace the ?old?...

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted in the Philippines thatexamines the extent of adoption of human capital-enhancing human resource (HR) andindustrial relations (IR) practices. Differences between locally owned and otherorganizations in these practices and their relationship to...

This paper describes an empirical study on the outsourcing of the staff cateringfunction in a sample of Australian businesses. It surveys 112 companies with steffcatering facilities, and uses Tichy's (1982) TPC model to explore the reasons forthe provision of the facility in the first place and...

This study examines the effectiveness of the human resource management (HRM)function of a public sector entity as it became corporatlzed. There has been littleempirical research regarding the effectiveness of the people managementfunctions within the Australian pulic sector as these entities...

This paper investigates the influence of modernisation on the moral judgements of 211 managers in the People???s Republic of China, based on their responses to a series of vignettes depicting potentially unethical behaviour in organisations. Since modernisation can take many forms, this paper...