International Journal of Manpower: Volume 13 Issue 3

New Strategies to Combat Unemployment: Especially Long‐term Unemployment in Denmark

Søren P. Nielsen

Describes Denmark′s new strategies, designed to cope with andovercome long‐term unemployment. Since the long‐term unemployed (LTU)lack formal education and training, a retraining…

An Empirical Approach to Job Families in Large, Complex Organizations

Jack Kearns, Y. Paul Huo

Proposes a new empirical approach to the classification of jobfamilies. This approach reflects an attempt to incorporate data on boththe performance‐related human attributes and…

Value Systems as Predictors of Managerial Decision Styles of Arab Executives

Abbas J. Ali, Dietrich L. Schaupp

Investigates managerial values as predictors of managerial decisionstyles. A multiple regression analysis indicated that existential valuesrelated positively to a consultative…

Lack of Management Training in India: Causes and Characteristics

Rajeev D. Sharma

Identifies major causes of the lack of managment training in Indiain order to evolve a viable strategy of management training. Financialconstraint emerged as the single most…

The Impact of Military Expenditures on Human Capital Development in the Arab World

Robert E. Looney

Addresses the question of whether military expenditures in the Arabworld have been at the expense of human capital development. Mainlyfinds that countries in the Arab world have…

Demythologizing Rewards Structures

Brian Wilson

Discusses how, ideally, senior managers should approach theinstallation of a staff rewards structure sequentially: process andopenness, job descriptions, evaluation of jobs…

A Public Choice Note on College Student Migration

Franklin G. Mixon

Provides a compatible model to previous work on college studentmigration in the form of a recursive set of equations. Points out that“hidden resource distortion”, a form of rent…