... Best practice United Kingdom The majority of sexual harassment literature appears to have been published in the 1990s, with less being published in recent years. The emergence of the term “sexual harassment” can be traced back to the mid 1970s in North America, however, in the UK, the first...

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... on the four combinations of the two job dimensions, value and uniqueness, set out by Lepak and Snell (1999) : VU; VNU; NVNU and NVU [1] . These four job groups prove not to be equally important to the companies' activities and objectives. Best practice Human resource management Human resource...

... Limited 2005 Performance measurement (quality) Human resource management Best practice United Kingdom Organizational performance A dominant theme in the human resource management (HRM) research agenda continues to be how HRM policies and practices contribute to improving...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Best practice Partnership Trade unions Employee involvement In the last two decades, public sector services have come under mounting pressure to improve performance and reduce costs in service delivery. Successive Conservative governments exposed...