Due to the intensifying 'war for talent', companies are increasingly looking to position themselves as attractive employers. They are also increasingly communicating their global talent management (GTM) programs through their websites and job advertisements. However, to date, there is a dearth...

In this study, the authors analyze leadership behaviors as potential health-promoting resources for low-skilled workers in a highly culturally diverse work setting. The authors hypothesize that subordinates’ and supervisors’ individual power distance orientations will moderate the effect of...

Research on the relationship between perceived overqualification and individual performance has examined individual experiences of overqualification in isolation. The present study approaches this relationship in a new light by examining a condition under which perceptions of overqualification...

International talent management becomes increasingly important, because companies compete on a global scale for qualified employees. Finding highly educated talent, however, is difficult, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This research investigates the work expectations of Chinese (N=404),...

Cross-Company Mentoring is an external form of business mentoring across organizational borders. Thereby it is important that the participants are able to quickly get into a high quality developmental relationship to reap the benefits of the learning opportunities. This paper thus focuses on the...

In der psychologischen Vertragsforschung wird davon ausgegangen, dass der psychologische Vertrag von Arbeitnehmern einem grundlegenden Wandel unterliegt: Ein eher an Langfristigkeit orientierter relationaler psychologischer Vertrag wird zunehmend abgeloest durch einen eher kurzfristorientierten...

Previous research has examined burnout and work engagement as a function of demands and resources at work. Yet we know little about the ways in which these are determined by people’s social experience as a member of their workgroup as shaped, in particular, by leaders’ management of shared...

Current issues in international human resource management include global careers that differ from traditional expatriate assignments. A number of foreign executives have in recent years been appointed to positions in the headquarter operations of culturally distant organisations. These...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir die organisationsexternen Deutungen einer Arbeitgebermarke vor dem Hintergrund eines interpretativen, relationalen Verstaendnisses von Branding. In einer explorativen Studie auf der Basis von 16 semi-strukturierten Interviews mit potentiellen BewerberInnen...

Seit etwa einem Jahrzehnt wird von einem Wandel im Taetigkeitsfeld Personalmanagement in Richtung eines zunehmenden strategischen Einflusses in Organisationen gesprochen. Als Berufsfeld ist Personalmanagement jedoch noch empirisch wenig erkundet. Aus humankapitaltheoretischer Sicht sind zur...