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Human resources can differentiate firms from their competitors or directly affect the success or failure of firms. As in many sectors, there is a need for qualified employees in…
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Human resources can differentiate firms from their competitors or directly affect the success or failure of firms. As in many sectors, there is a need for qualified employees in the logistics sector, which is of great importance for the national economies. Qualified employees in this sector contribute to the success of the companies and the development of the industry. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the qualifications and characteristics of the labour force needed by logistics companies. It was also aimed to show the impact of COVID-19 on logistics job ads. For this purpose, a total of 1,410 job vacancy postings (before COVID-19) and a total of 1,700 job vacancy postings (during COVID-19) were searched on the kariyer.net website with the word “logistics” and analysed by content analysis method. As a result, it was found that the most advertised province was Istanbul in both periods, the most looked up experience requirement in the candidates was 1-5 years in both periods, the opportunities provided to the candidates (transportation, food and beverage, career, social activity) were not mentioned much in both periods. This study reveals the status of logistics job postings in the period before COVID-19 and during COVID-19. It was also aimed to show the impact of COVID-19 on logistics job ads. We investigated whether the logistics employee demand has changed and whether the pandemic is affecting workforce characteristics. This is the first empirical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on logistics vacancy postings.
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the German labor market situation.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the German labor market situation.
Design/methodology/approach
This study is focusing on the German archive labor market for the year 2019 and examines the job postings.
Findings
Many postings in 2019; problems in posts such as different salaries and quality of tasks.
Originality/value
This is an original source-based study.
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The purpose of this paper is to focus on the role of unions for job flow rates.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the role of unions for job flow rates.
Design/methodology/approach
The author uses a longitudinal data set emphasizing the importance of the time dimension.
Findings
Using the fixed effects estimator, the author finds that unions decrease the job separation rate and the job finding rate.
Originality/value
The findings support that the implications of the insider-outsider model by Lindbeck and Snower (1986): unions are beneficial for insiders but harm outsiders.
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Kea Tijdens, Miroslav Beblavý and Anna Thum-Thysen
The purpose of this paper is to overcome the problems that skill mismatch cannot be measured directly and that demand side data are lacking. It relates demand and supply side…
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The purpose of this paper is to overcome the problems that skill mismatch cannot be measured directly and that demand side data are lacking. It relates demand and supply side characteristics by aggregating data from jobs ads and jobholders into occupations. For these occupations skill mismatch is investigated by focussing on demand and supply ratios, attained vis-à-vis required skills and vacancies’ skill requirements in relation to the demand-supply ratios.
Design/methodology/approach
Vacancy data from the EURES job portal and jobholder data from WageIndicator web-survey were aggregated by ISCO 4-digit occupations and merged in a database with 279 occupations for Czech Republic, being the only European country with disaggregated occupational data, coded educational data, and sufficient numbers of observations.
Findings
One fourth of occupations are in excessive demand and one third in excessive supply. The workforce is overeducated compared to the vacancies’ requirements. A high demand correlates with lower educational requirements. At lower occupational skill levels requirements are more condensed, but attainments less so. At higher skill levels, requirements are less condensed, but attainments more so. Educational requirements are lower for high demand occupations.
Research limitations/implications
Using educational levels is a limited proxy for multidimensional skills. Higher educated jobholders are overrepresented.
Practical implications
In Europe labour market mismatches worry policy makers and Public Employment Services alike.
Originality/value
The authors study is the first for Europe to explore such a granulated approach of skill mismatch.
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This article presents the diverse responsibilities of the HR department in organizations that strive for leadership within their sector.
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Purpose
This article presents the diverse responsibilities of the HR department in organizations that strive for leadership within their sector.
Design/methodology/approach
Lists and explains these responsibilities, and highlights how they are connected.
Findings
Advocates that at the foundation of an HR department's responsibilities should be an immediate and continuous connection with strategic management and with departmental heads, so that the workforce can be geared toward any new requirements.
Practical implications
Presents a useful way forward for HR departments that find themselves simply fulfilling the functions of the old personnel division for database and administration, for pushing around the papers regarding employees' performance, and for posting job vacancies.
Originality/value
Emphasizes the role of HR as a link between top management and employees.
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Abdulrazaq Kayode AbdulKareem, Kazeem Adebayo Oladimeji, Abdulrasaq Ajadi Ishola, Muhammed Lawan Bello, Abubakar Yaru Umar and Abdulhakeem Adejumo
This study examines the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) for e-recruitment and its impacts on public value outcomes.
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Purpose
This study examines the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) for e-recruitment and its impacts on public value outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
A survey was conducted with 213 public sector employees in the federal civil service using a questionnaire to test a conceptual model integrating the Technology Acceptance Model, Media Richness Theory and Public Value Theory using PLS-SEM analysis.
Findings
Results validate significant positive relationships between ICT adoption, social media use for e-recruitment and public value creation. Internet self-efficacy positively moderates public value outcomes.
Research limitations/implications
While this study makes valuable contributions, avenues remain to further expand generalizability, strengthen validity and incorporate additional institutional factors in the framework.
Practical implications
The study provides insights to guide policies and interventions aimed at improving ICT adoption success and public value gains from e-government investments in developing countries.
Originality/value
The research makes key contributions by operationalizing and empirically assessing the public value impacts of e-government innovations and examining adoption issues in an understudied developing country context.
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Jeroen Meijerink, Joost ten Kattelaar and Michel Ehrenhard
The purpose of this study is to explore the use of shared services by end-users and why this may conflict with the use as intended by the shared service center (SSC) management.
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explore the use of shared services by end-users and why this may conflict with the use as intended by the shared service center (SSC) management.
Methodology/approach
By applying structuration theory, this empirical study draws on qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews with managers and end-users of an SSC. This SSC is part of a Dutch subsidiary of a multinational corporation that produces professional electronics for the defense and security market.
Findings
We find two main types of shared services usage by end-users which were not intended by the SSC management: avoidance and window-dressing. These forms of unintended usage were the result of contradictions in social structures related to the centralization and decentralization models as appropriated by end-users and management.
Implications
Our findings show that the benefits of shared services depends on how well contradictions in managers’ and end-users’ interpretive schemes, resources, and norms associated with centralization and decentralization models are resolved.
Originality/value
A popular argument in existing studies is that the benefit of shared services follows from the design of the SSC’s organizational structure. These studies overlook the fact that shared services are not always used as their designers intended and, therefore, that success depends on how the SSC’s organizational structure is appropriated by end-users. As such, the originality of this study is our focus on the way shared services are used by their end-users in order to explain why SSCs succeed or fail in reaping their promised benefits.
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The nature of career development, in particular the confusion whicharises in trying to define it, are considered. Two key elements ofcareer development are identified, namely…
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The nature of career development, in particular the confusion which arises in trying to define it, are considered. Two key elements of career development are identified, namely career planning and career management. Results of a study of career development practices in Irish firms illustrate that the emphasis is more on career management than career planning. A wide range of activities are undertaken with the emphasis on career information systems, appropriate training and management development activities, performance appraisal and career counselling. There is a considerable lack of integration between the various activities used to promote career development within the organisation. A number of implications of the research are outlined, focusing in particular on the role of the line manager, HRM specialist and the general design of career development systems within an organisation.
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Lam Hoang Viet Le, Toan Luu Duc Huynh, Bryan S. Weber and Bao Khac Quoc Nguyen
This paper aims to identify the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor markets.
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Purpose
This paper aims to identify the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor markets.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conduct a large-scale survey on 16,000 firms from 82 industries in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and analyze the data set by using different machine-learning methods.
Findings
First, job loss and reduction in state-owned enterprises have been significantly larger than in other types of organizations. Second, employees of foreign direct investment enterprises suffer a significantly lower labor income than those of other groups. Third, the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market are heterogeneous across industries and geographies. Finally, firms with high revenue in 2019 are more likely to adopt preventive measures, including the reduction of labor forces. The authors also find a significant correlation between firms' revenue and labor reduction as traditional econometrics and machine-learning techniques suggest.
Originality/value
This study has two main policy implications. First, although government support through taxes has been provided, the authors highlight evidence that there may be some additional benefit from targeting firms that have characteristics associated with layoffs or other negative labor responses. Second, the authors provide information that shows which firm characteristics are associated with particular labor market responses such as layoffs, which may help target stimulus packages. Although the COVID-19 pandemic affects most industries and occupations, heterogeneous firm responses suggest that there could be several varieties of targeted policies-targeting firms that are likely to reduce labor forces or firms likely to face reduced revenue. In this paper, the authors outline several industries and firm characteristics which appear to more directly be reducing employee counts or having negative labor responses which may lead to more cost–effect stimulus.
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