... system of the late 1990s is used as a case study. The paper illustrates how World Bank data may have been used to guide the design. Findings The paper demonstrates how during the design phase, policy makers can employ knowledge of pre-incentive training levels of firms, and possibly also estimates...

... with the effects of the class of driving licence that is mentioned on the resume. The authors also advocate the use of the FOSD criterion to discrimination studies. Gender Recruitment Discrimination Hiring Mobility Case studies C93 J16 J24 J71 Mobility is an individual characteristic...

... to the small body of theoretical research that has studied the negative effects of externalization on internal employees’ perceptions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Organizational culture Employee attitudes Case studies Conditions of employment Contingent workers Skills flexibility...

... as well as about how these meanings affect decision‐making processes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Corporate crisis Employees participation Case studies Sensemaking Social system theory The recent global financial crisis (GFC) provides us with the opportunity to more...

... countries. These papers represent a wide variety of designs, methodologies and analytic strategies used to study active ageing in the paid labour force as well as in civil society. The papers make use of large‐scale surveys among employers and volunteers, case studies in organisations, and vital statistics...

... discusses the implications for the prolongation of working lives. Older workers Australia Qualitative methods Case studies Organizational change While public policy makers in most industrialised nations have recently been promoting the cause of older workers in an effort to counter shortfalls...

... problematic, a case study approach is used. The research indicates that a lack of attention to the human element of change, especially inconsistent senior management support, a lack of involvement of supervisors and middle managers in planning for change, and lack of attention to groups of staff affected...

... workforce. The companies included in this case study analysis were selected on the basis of their relatively sophisticated approaches to change. They lent themselves to the application of formal TQM and HRM programmes, unlike smaller companies that tend by their nature to be largely informal...

...Tom Redman; Adrian Wilkinson; Ed Snape Examines the factors which underpin the success of total quality management (TQM) initiatives. Uses data drawn from an in‐ depth, longitudinal case study of British Steel Teesside Works. Provides information on the background to the case study and an overview...