... in organizations. Empirical studies about managers’ perceptions/attitudes toward older workers are scarce. Studies in the Brazilian context are even scarcer. Brazil Ageism Gender similarity bias Managers’ attitudes towards older workers The increase of life expectancy and the downward trend...

...Mauricio Cortez Reis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between educational mismatch and labor earnings in Brazil, taking into account individual fixed effects. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis employs longitudinal data and information...

... commitment at the work‐life interface for Northeast Brazilian public sector professional nurses. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative data were collected from 550 public hospital nurses in North‐Eastern Brazil. Path and multivariate analysis were used to test the hypotheses. Findings The findings...

... to larger societal dilemmas and the need to negotiate win‐win solutions with stakeholders. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Best practice Sustainable development Human resource management Risk assessment Stakeholder analysis Brazil In the Aracruz Celulose, SA (hereafter...

... ; Haspelasgh and Farquhar, 1994 ; Haspeslagh and Jemison, 1991 ; Markides and Oyon, 1998 ; Schweiger and Weber, 1989 ; Sinatra and Dubini, 1994). Acquisitions and mergers Human resource management Banks Brazil This paper broadly looks at the role of HRM within radical change processes. More...

... industries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Risk management Occupational health and safety Culture Brazil Argentina It is easy and often premature for managers to assume that workers perceive job hazards as a threat and act accordingly. Fear, although considered an emotion...

...Omar Arias; Gustavo Yamada; Luis Tejerina This study investigates the role of race, family background and education in earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent population in Brazil. It uses quantile Mincer earnings regressions to go beyond the usual decomposition of average...

.... Develops a theoretical framework to address impacts on HRM in restructuring contexts and applies this contextual framework to evaluate an empirical study of an industrial company of US origin, based in Brazil, which has undergone major structural change. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Alignment Brazil...