Small firms are much less likely than large firms to provide their employees and their
managers with formal training. Storey and Westhead offer two explanations of this, which …

Significant research attention has been devoted to examining the relationship between HR
practices and firm performance, and research support has assumed HR as the causal …

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-
evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three …

This study advances research on macro human resource management by examining
collective commitment as a mediator of motivation, empowerment, and skill‐enhancing …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of key human resource (HR)
practices on permanent employees' organizational commitment and intention to stay. These …

Currently, there is general agreement about the importance of training as a tool to help
companies in the development of sustainable competitive advantages based on their human …

Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous and the quality of their interaction when
paired is difficult to forecast. The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm …

The process of globalization has meant the intensification of global interdependencies and
the consolidation of the global as a social horizon, and this has provided fertile breeding …

The paper studies the effects of training on employee productivity. This paper provides a
review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further …

The majority of US temporary help supply (THS) firms offer nominally free, unrestricted
computer skills training, a practice inconsistent with the competitive model of training. I …