Personnel Review: Volume 35 Issue 3

The careers of research scientists: Predictors of three dimensions of career commitment and intention to leave science

Jennifer M. Kidd, Frances Green

This study seeks to identify some of the factors that explain biomedical research scientists' career commitment and that prompt them to consider leaving science. It also aims to…

Career advancement of hotel managers since graduation: a comparative study

Thomas N. Garavan, Fergal O'Brien, Deborah O'Hanlon

To investigate the factors predicting the career progression of hotel managers working in international hotel chains in Ireland, Europe and Asia.

Exploring career transitions: accounting for structure and agency

Joanne Duberley, Mary Mallon, Laurie Cohen

To apply and develop Stephen Barley's model of career structuration to offer insights into the transition into portfolio working.

Human resource information systems: a review and empirical analysis

E.W.T. Ngai, F.K.T. Wat

To present a comprehensive literature review of human resource information systems (HRIS) and to report the results of a survey on the implementation of HRIS in Hong Kong.

Postscript to change: survivors' retrospective views of organizational changes

Samia Chreim

To analyze lower level employees' retrospective views of their experience with organizational changes introduced by management; to provide a typology of change responses based on…

New technology: the potential impact of surveillance techniques in recruitment practices

Rosalind H. Searle

To outline changes in selection attraction, search and assessment processes and examine and compare, using a surveillance perspective, the privacy and equity issues for…

The Bottom Line HR Function

Robert Wapshott