Call for Proposals for a Special Issue for: German Journal of Human Resource Management (Zeitschrift fu r Personalforschung)

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
German Journal ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Organizational working time regimes: Drivers, consequences and attempts to change patterns of excessive working hours

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blagoy Blagoev ◽  
Sara Louise Muhr ◽  
Renate Ortlieb ◽  
Georg Schreyögg
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
German Journal ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Levels

A 40-hour working week is the norm in Europe, yet some organizations require 60 or more working hours and in investment banks an alarming 120-hour weeks are known to be worked. What is more, these organizations often require workers to be permanently on call and demonstrate high production rates. Consequences of such practices include frazzled employees, with their families’ and their own health under pressure. This article introduces our special issue of the German Journal of Human Resource Management. It tackles the many reasons behind excessive work hours and failed attempts to change working time arrangements in organizations. It first identifies three core ideas in previous research, namely the dispersed nature of regimes of excessive working hours, their high levels of persistence and their constitution at multiple levels of analysis. It then summarizes the contributions in this special issue. Finally, it proposes avenues for future research, such as focusing on the genesis and the historicity of organizational working time regimes, studying the interrelation of factors across multiple levels of analysis, and probing new theories to explain the extreme persistence of excessive working hours. The overarching aim of our special issue in this core area of human resource management is to contribute to an understanding of organizational working time regimes and the tenacity of excessive working hours in an effort to deepen our knowledge of how to change them.

Research paradigms in international human resource management: An epistemological systematisation of the field

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Jaime Bonache ◽  
Marion Festing
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Human Resource Management ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
International Human ◽  
Sampling Procedures

The explicit consideration of Research Paradigms in International Human Resource Management, the title of this Special Issue, helps us in analysing and systematising the field to show how research in international human resource management is typically conducted, what preferred perspectives prevail and which approaches have been rather neglected so far. In this introduction, we map the field, and after defining the contours of international human resource management, we use the distinction between positivism and interpretivism to outline implications for the goals of international human resource management studies and associated ontological and epistemological assumptions. Next, we analyse research methods, ways to construct research questions, researchers’ roles, sampling procedures, data collection techniques, key theoretical contributions, focus on context in theory construction, quality indicators of data analysis and evaluation criteria in each of the two key research paradigms when studying international human resource management issues. In so doing, we offer a framework for the contributions made to this Special Issue, including literature reviews focusing on the systematisation of international human resource management research, using various paradigm lenses and specific methods. We sincerely hope that the notions, typologies and contributions included in this Special Issue, all based on extensive literature reviews, will help advance research in international human resource management.

Guest Editor's Comments Special Issue on Human Resource Management and the SME: Toward a New Synthesis

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome A. Katz ◽  
Howard E. Aldrich ◽  
Theresa M. Welbourne ◽  
Pamela M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Synthesis
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