...Michaeline Skiba; Patrick O'Halloran Purpose Taking a broad review of the management and economics literature, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the recent “Great Recession” has had a disproportionate adverse impact on US labor markets and created social disruptions to professional...

...James L. Bierstaker; Inshik Seol; R. Steven Flynn Purpose Experts contend that knowledge of the personal labor market penalties (loss of employment and future wealth) incurred by past chief executive officers (CEOs) forced to restate their firms' earnings may induce current CEOs to refrain from...

...Pooran Wynarczyk Purpose This paper aims to investigate the “gender management gap” in the scientific labour market in the North East of England. The paper seeks to compare and contrast employment, ownership, management structure and capacity between men and women in the Science, Engineering...

...Lubka Yankov; Brian H. Kleiner Looks at the shortage of skilled employees in the labour market of the construction industry and the reduction in the number of qualified workers. Considers ways that employee motivation can be improved and provides some examples of successful construction...

...P.J. Sloane The objective of the research was to determine the reasons for and the extent to which organisations had adopted flexible manning arrangements, and to assess likely trends. 44 Management Research News Volume 11 Number 1/2 1988 Flexible Manning Within a Local Labour Market P. J. Sloane...

...H.A. Grubb‐lngram; R. Masson The objective of the research is to investigate and explain differences in the manufacturing performance of comparable firms in terms of the manner in which their manufacturing process is managed. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Labour market Management Manufacturing...

...Richard K. Brown A paper drawn on research in the shipbuilding industry and on a number of projects concerned with attitudes to employment and the changing nature of labour markets and of patterns of employment. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Careers Change Labour market 40 Careers...

...R.J. Sutherland A look at how the professional footballer's salary has been affected by regulations governing contracts between the club and the player. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Football Labour market Restrictive practices Management Research News Volume 11 No. 1/2 The Labour Market...

...D.J. Lee; D. Marsden; P. Rickman How can national requirements and standards of the Youth Training Scheme be met when the relevant decisions are effectively decentralised and delegated to firms and organisations? © MCB UP Limited 1988 Labour market Training Young people 38 Youth...

...P.B. Beaumont Three sets of environmental conditions favour the personnel function: tight labour market conditions, substantial government intervention in the employment relationship through legislation, a sizeable increase in the proportion of the workforce that is unionised. The presence...

...Elisabeth Sundin; Goran Johansson Only a small minority of all firms in all the Scandinavian countries use the labour‐market related measures, i.e. incentives to take on more workers. Big firms are more frequent users than small or medium sized firms (SMFs). This is because the number of situations...