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Recruitment and performance appraisal in the public sector
Introduction For the past decade or so, academics, civil servants and politicians have been working together towards building human resource…
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Sources of human resources in an international organisation
The sources of human resources in international organisations are expatriates, host countries and third parties (Scullion 1995; Gomez-Mejia et al.…
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International diversity and IHRM
As was noted in the introductory part of this chapter, countries and their people are different. Such differences have implications…
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International human resource management
Introduction Increasing competition in global business has created new challenges for multinational corporations (MCs) on how human resources are best…
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The limitations of traditional PMS
Traditional PMS uses the performance appraisal approach, which is open to bias and there are concerns that it does not…
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Competence based human resource management (CBHRM)
This is an approach that takes on board competency principles, techniques and practices in the whole spectrum of human resource…
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Competence framework
According to Boyatzis (1982) competence framework is a total collection of clusters, competencies and behavioural indicators. Figure displays a competence…
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Talent and competency based human resource management
Introduction The organisational life cycle theory postulates that organisations grow, reach maturity, decline and die (Cameron & Whitton 1981). However,…
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A unifying psychological theory of employee-employer relations
Although we have seen that there are different theories guiding the understanding of industrial relationships, all in all, the work…
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Employee relations
Introduction When employees join organisations, they have their own needs and expectations from the employer and colleagues in the workplace.…
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Systematic training model
The systematic training model (Mckenna & Beech 2002; Mankin 2009) sets out the process to be used in the task…
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Training needs analysis (TNA)
A training need is any shortfall between the knowledge, skills and attitudes of the employee vis-à-vis what is required by…
