Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the elements of a LinkedIn
profile that hiring professionals focus on most, and then examine LinkedIn
profiles in terms of these identified elements across different industries.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology was comprised of two phases. In
the first phase, researchers interviewed hiring professionals to determine their
usage of Lin... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to research the impact of one of HRM
activities, employees’ development, on the level of organizational innovative
performances. HR development techniques that organizations use in order to
develop employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities and their impact on the
perceived level of organizational innovativeness was set in the focus of
research, with the intent ... hiện toàn bộ
Katherine Karl, Joy V. Peluchette, Leda McIntyre Hall
Purpose– The increasing prevalence of unconventional appearance attributes (e.g.
tattoos, piercings, unnatural hair color, alternative clothing) is a concern
among employers as these appearance attributes are often viewed negatively.
Because much of the existing employee appearance research has been conducted in
the USA, the purpose of this paper is to examine employee beliefs regarding the
impact... hiện toàn bộ
Purpose – Many researchers have investigated the determinants of workers’
risk-taking/unsafe behaviours as a way to improve safety management and reduce
accidents but there has been a general lack of research about workers’ risk
information seeking behaviours or their source preferences for risk information.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether occupational risk
information source p... hiện toàn bộ
The paper seeks to draw attention to the complexity involved in developing fair
procedures for assessing equal value in employment. It first highlights
different aspects of fairness in relation to employment procedures and some of
the problems associated with the use of procedures in relation to job evaluation
and sex bias. The paper then explores the nature of the conflicts that are part
of equal... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to outline the findings of a research
project involving five Australian universities with over 30 per cent of their
senior management positions filled by women. It explores the factors that
enabled this to happen and also discusses the responses of the universities to
the report.Design/methodology/approachThe research was essentially qualitative,
based on 81 int... hiện toàn bộ
Many people are looking for a change in their working environment—concerned
about such widely divergent problems as job satisfaction, security of
employment, the introduction of democratic decision making and the
responsibilities of industry and commerce to the wider social spectrum. Such
concern is likely to be accelerated in the next decade by changes brought about
by micro‐processor technology.... hiện toàn bộ
As the current period of recession extends, our understanding of the impact of
the associated redundancies and unemployment on individuals should become
progressively refined. Only in this way can attitudes to re‐employment and
assistance with career redirection become more relevant to the present situation
and hence more constructive. This article gives an assessment of career
insecurity and job ... hiện toàn bộ
Reviews the development of the concept of reward management within the context
of other apparently innovative approaches to pay and the role of government
policy from the 1960s to the 1990s. These are largely seen to have been
ineffective and reward management to be another new wine in an old bottle.
There is considerable political and industrial relations debate in Australia
concerning the value and merit of Australian workplace agreements (AWAs).
However, formalised individual agreements are a relatively new phenomenon in the
Australian industrial relations landscape, consequently, to date there has been
limited assessment of the strategies, outcomes and processes involved in making
and nego... hiện toàn bộ