TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the global financial crisis (GFC), highlighting its most frightening dimensions, the policy responses and issues around the management of labour during and post‐GFC. Further, this paper introduces the five research papers that encompass this special issue.Design/methodology/approach– The papers presented here are early contributions on how the GFC has impacted the management of people. The key areas focused upon include the human resource management responses of multinational enterprises, the response of trade unions, the roles of employee representative bodies and the rationalisation of post‐crisis managerial strategies.Findings– The major conclusions of this special issue are that the impact of the GFC was variable across countries and sectors in addition to the process of decision making, the types of decisions made, and the determinants and consequences of those decisions.Originality/value– The papers of the special issue provide some of the first empirical findings on how the GFC has impacted on people management, trade unions and the HR function in different contexts.
VL  - 34
IS  - 3
SN  - 0143-7720
DO  - 10.1108/IJM-04-2013-0076
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-04-2013-0076
AU  - McDonnell Anthony
AU  - Burgess John
ED  - Anthony McDonnell
ED  - John Burgess
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - The impact of the global financial crisis on managing employees
T2  - International Journal of Manpower
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 184
EP  - 197
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -