This paper pays tribute to Joan Acker by discussing how her ideas have been utilized in
Management and Organization Studies (MOS). Through a systematic review of journal …

HRM has always been located at the interface of potentially conflicting forces within
organisations. However, in its quest for legitimacy, HRM has tended primarily to look up the …

Global, multi-faceted, and applied: the most contemporary introduction to leadership, which
considers individual, organizational, and societal perspectives. Providing a robust and …

Labor market intermediaries (LMIs) are entities that stand between the individual worker and
the organization that needs work done. They include well-known operations such as …

Do human resource management practices actually work? This timely and engaging volume
examines the links between people management practices and organizational performance …

Purpose–Increasing turnover of frontline staff in call centres is detrimental to the delivery of
quality service to customers. This paper aims to present the context for the rapid growth of …

This study examines affective commitment to employing and client organizations among
long-term contracted employees, a new and growing employment classification. Drawing on …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to show the way to unlock the black box of HRM and
performance linkages by exploring one of the key variables that mediates the link, namely …

Taking a critical perspective, Skill, Training and Human Resource Development focuses on
the way people are developed at work; the skills that are encouraged, the way they are …

This article examines how tensions in institutional logics, created in the formation of hybrid
organizations, are played out, and partially resolved, through micro-level interactions within …