International Journal of Manpower: Volume 26 Issue 5

Testing for pay and promotion bias in an international organization

Deon Filmer, Elizabeth King, Dominique van de Walle

International organizations pursue multiple objectives in hiring policies including cultural diversity, reducing costs and avoiding discrimination among which there can be sharp…

Recruiting personnel in a tight labour market: an analysis of employers' behaviour

Kène Henkens, Chantal Remery, Joop Schippers

During recent years, the Dutch labour market has developed from a buyers' market into a sellers' market. Consequently employers had to increase their efforts to find suitable…

Relationship between strategic human resource management and firm performance: A contingency perspective

Wan‐Jing April Chang, Tung Chun Huang

Previous studies suggest that strategic human resource management (SHRM) is beneficial to firm performance. This study seeks to investigate the moderating effect of product market…

A note on occupational variations in the returns to education in the US labor market

Paul E. Gabriel, Susanne Schmitz

Seeks to answer the question: “do certain occupations offer lower financial benefits to acquiring years of formal schooling than others?”.

Exploring determinants of job involvement: an empirical test among senior executives

Abraham Carmeli

This study proposes and tests a model that attempts to explain the role of situational and personal‐related factors relating to why top executives become involved in their jobs.