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... decisions geared towards particular objectives of individual subsidiaries increase with the level... we provided respondents with a short definition of such teams in line with existing research (Atha...
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This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passive labor market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy and the legal structure of a "Bismarckian" welfare state. Our study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been relinquished for a larger share of benefit recipients. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased considerably while more persons than before have access to labor market programs...
... if the desired economic and societal objectives of activation could be achieved through the adopte... to both the German and the European definition, these persons have to register promptly with the ... an example of implementing New Public Management principles in Germany. The late, but fundamental c...
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...'s underlying norms, policies and objectives, and can be particularly difficult to achieve in c...Also, applying Good's (1988) definition of trust, if employees perceive consistent implici...
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Organizations seek new ways to stimulate collective competences. One possible way this can be done is though self-managing teams. This paper aims to understand the collective competences based on their constitutive elements: interaction, sensemaking and identity. For this study we investigated a Brazilian world-class petrochemical company, recognized by their excellence in working with self-managed teams. Two semi-autonomous teams were studied, distinct in its pattern and performance. The main results point out that the understanding of collective competences is more related to the dynamics and the interaction process itself rather than to the content of this approach and its constitutive elements separately.
..., knowledge of equipment and definition on the team's routine. The laboratory team has a s... once the team performance and objectives are reconsidered according to demand. Although som...
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... is of utmost importance for strategic management and human resource management as well. Based on pr... have as many different and competing definitions as organizational culture. One can cluster the dif... knowledge according to general objectives and the needs of stakeholders (Todorova/Durisin 20...
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..., by the very nature of its definition as 'the humanly devised constraints that structure... patterns of thinking about business objectives in anticipation of future needs (Sadler-Smith et a...
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One important success factor of foreign firms in Russia is the establishment of efficient networks with non-market stakeholders. Stakeholder networks may help foreign firms to obtain relevant information, accelerate administrative decision-making and reduce political risks. The objective of this study is to analyze the stakeholder networks between German investors in Russia and their socio-political interest groups. The study is based on in-depth interviews with the representatives of 3 German firms and 16 socio-political interest groups in autumn 2006. The results of a within-case and a cross-case analysis reveal that the development of stakeholder relations is important for the success of foreign companies in Russia. These may differ in size, intensity, density and centrality, dependi...
1. Problem, objectives and structure of the study. Foreign companies in R... who interact with and give meaning and definition to the company" (Wicks et al. 1994:482). When inte...
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... in multiple countries." While this definition allows for a variety of ways in which businesses c... international orientation, growth objectives (McDougall and Oviatt 2000) and choice of(internat...
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... has centered on the issues of the definition of the regions and/or the appropriateness of using...The objectives of NAFTA as stated in article 102 of the agreement...
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For almost twenty years researchers have predicted the end of personnel as HRM practices increasingly became a line management function. However, while useful for describing shifts in human resource responsibilities, this practice-based view obscures the fundamental strategic reason for this shift - executive demands for effective means to manage performance. This paper contributes a new approach for HRM that may better predict which current practices will be most successful and suggests the characteristics of new practices that may be developed using an example of goal-setting and performance appraisal. The theory includes a model of human performance based on recent advances in cognitive neuroscience that suggests HRM may fulfill a strategic role by reestablishing its core competence ...
... HR practitioners towards prospective objectives that support creating human resource advantages im..., which we propose as a neurological definition for the motivation construct, is determined by the...