management recruiters

• Spiritual Cleansing: A Case Study On How Spirituality Can Be Mis/Used by a Company**

Organisational spirituality has gained popularity. While some authors see a spiritually fulfilling workplace as a benefit for employees and organisations alike, critical authors point out the potentially totalising effects of organisations that try to colonise employees' minds, hearts and souls. Whereas most existing critical studies are based on literature analyses and mainly refer to societal developments and how organisations are affected by them, the paper at hand provides a single case study on the organisational level. The case study allows a more detailed examination of how organisations can employ spirituality to serve organisational goals. The article identifies three aspects in which workplace spirituality can be misused: to mislead members about the nature of their work, abou...

...Recruiters try to act as a model of trust in the company as t...

• Management Revue
• Band 21 Nr. 1, Januar 2010

• Editorial: Human Capital Management - a Long and Winding Road

This editorial discusses the rise of human capital management as a broad concept that covers a range of ideas.

... statements down to promises made by recruiters. And of course, this sentence is considered as the...

• Zeitschrift für Personalforschung
• Band 21 Nr. 3, Juli 2007

• Flexible Employment As a Unidirectional Career? Results From Field Experiments**

Although the number of flexible workers is constantly growing, little is known about career paths built up on flexible employment. In this article, we investigate the chances of former flexible workers to be employed in a permanent full-time position. In two field experiments, we asked for employers' evaluation of applicants with a flexible employment history. Results indicate that former part-time work is in fact perceived as a disadvantage for candidates when applying for a permanent full-time position while other types of flexible work (e.g., fixed term contracts, part-time work, and interorganizational mobility) are not. Implications of these results for individual careers and employers' understanding of personnel are discussed.

...Research has shown that recruiters draw inferences about dispositional traits and abi...

• Management Revue
• Band 20 Nr. 1, Januar 2009