Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration: Volume 6 Issue 3

Confucian thinking and the implications for sustainability in HRM

Alex Mak, Lenis Cheung, Amy Mak, Loretta Leung

The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise introduction of sustainability in human resource management (HRM) from the western perspective. With a review of Confucian…

Sustainability: the missing element in performance management

Jane Maley

The performance management process has typically focussed on the achievement of short-term financial goals and ignored longer-term broader goals such human, social and…

Sustainable HRM : The synthesis effect of high performance work systems on organisational performance and employee harm

Sugumar Mariappanadar, Robin Kramar

The purpose of this paper is to examine sustainable human resource management (HRM) based on the synthesis and simultaneous effects of high-performance work systems (HPWS) on…

Does the Japanese employment system harm productivity performance?: A perspective from DEA-based productivity and sustainable HRM

Ryohei Sotome, Masako Takahashi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of employment systems on productivity performance in Japanese companies from the perspective of data envelopment analysis (DEA…

Leadership practices influencing stakeholder satisfaction in Thai SMEs

Suparak Suriyankietkaew, Gayle C. Avery

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the leadership and management practices that positively affect stakeholder satisfaction, an under-studied area important for both…

Sustainable people management through work-life balance: a study of the Malaysian Chinese context

Wee Chan Au, Pervaiz K. Ahmed

The purpose of this paper is to explore the harmful effects of negative externality at both national and firm level by identifying practices that impact Malaysian…

Sustainable people management practices in the Asia Pacific region

Sugumar Mariappanadar, Robin Kramar