... standards implemented locally by MNCs, particularly in terms of recruitment and career development. Though a common practice, compadrazgo and the wider use of informal networks are perceived negatively when those benefiting do not live up to the requirements and are regarded as detrimental...

...' preferences towards four employment options: (1) supporting workers to continue until the retirement age, (2) encouraging workers to continue beyond the retirement age, (3) recruiting someone older than 55 and (4) (re)hiring someone who has retired. Design/methodology/approach Data were drawn from...

... Recruitment research has neglected the predictors of applicant attraction among generational cohorts. Further, studies on generational differences have originated in western contexts and have ignored the emerging economies. Based on the responses of working professionals, our study increases...

... participants were recruited from a US university to participate in the pilot study. In Study 2, 222 participants were recruited from a British university in the north of the UK. The overall sample included 388 students. The majority were women (n=311, 80.2 percent); men made up a fifth of the sample...

.... In doing so, the purpose of this paper is to shed light into the potential mismatch between the personal purpose of SM and recruiters’ job-related use of this data. Design/methodology/approach rESSuME maps personal employability attributes to elements of Facebook (FB). It was delivered to 708 employers...

... been used to measure the influence of ethnic origin on employability, conditional on employment status. Employment Recruitment Labour market Discrimination in employment Ethnic minorities Unemployment Correspondence testing Ethnic origin Hiring discrimination C93 J15 J7...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The main French internet websites were browsed on a daily basis in an effort to identify and respond to the job postings that fell within the scope of our testing procedure. Two types of recruiters posted jobs for management...

... policy – among others. The recent literature has pursued a series of extensions to the Lump of Learning model. This study urges instead discarding that model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. Brain drain Recruitment Poverty Regional...

... – Depending on the kind of weWOM people see on the internet, perceived HR image changes. Positive, intermediate, and negative weWOM produce different behavioral intentions with respect to different recruiting aspects. weWOM also influences two important employee attitudes and resulted more credible than firms...

... – This is the first nationwide field experiment in the Cypriot labour market and contributes to the literature as it is the first field study on sexual orientation which tries to disentangle statistical from taste-based discrimination in the labour market. Skills Recruitment Earnings Human capital Labour...

... from an existing labour pool during cyclical labour shortages by sending signals to them that there are jobs available. For example, employers may increase wages or initiate recruitment campaigns in order to attract more workers during a period of rapid economic growth (Skills Canada BC, 2004...

... reject the hypothesis that firms rely more on observable characteristics for wage formation of external candidates. Nor do the estimates favor the prediction that there is a wage premium due to the option value of risky employees. Finally, employees who are recruited internally have on average a 15...

... recruitment and investigate effects of personality‐related factors such as risk/security‐seeking tendencies. Furthermore, it may be worthwhile to include technology‐oriented variables such as technological self‐efficacy as well. Practical implications Corporate employment web sites used to inform...

...Lai Wan Hooi Purpose The objective of this research is to examine to what extent Japanese recruitment practices are introduced and practiced in the auto manufacturing companies in Malaysia, since the implementation of the Look East Policy. Design/methodology/approach The process involves...

...Thomas K. Bauer; Patrick J. Dross; John P. Haisken‐DeNew Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of sheepskin effects in the return to education in Japan. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a short description of the Japanese schooling and recruitment system...

..., Developing, and Supporting Expatriate Managers . Greensboro, NC : Center for Creative Leadership   1998 . 53 pp. , ISBN: 1‐882197‐45‐3   $15.00 © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> International trade Expatriates Recruitment Retention The final chapter, entitled “Can global perspectives...

... market Performance‐related pay Ratios Recruitment Top management The crucial importance of diverse issues concerning the managerial function in Soviet‐type economies (STEs) has long been recognized. Researchers have investigated diverse topics, including appropriate reward systems...

.... The most fundamental differences seem to reside in the relative importance of various rewards and the general philosophy of using rewards. The most striking difference between Chinese and US selection practices perhaps resides in the frequency with which interviews are used in the recruiting...

... on the social relations of production and changing work practices. Illustrates these changes in work practices through transformations in recruitment and training practices in large automotive companies. As noted in the previous section, there is a recognition that closer ties between all parties...

.... Aims to provide the sales manager with the basic information needed for a comprehensive orientation to non‐discriminatory selection practices in the USA. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Discrimination Legislation Recruitment USA Traditionally European firms have opted for hiring Americans...