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ABSTRACT Building on evidence that firms grant employee stock options (ESOs) in order to retain employees, we assess the impact of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) 123R, and the reduction in ESO use that followed its adoption, on employee retention at the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level.
Muhammad Azim, Francesco Bova, Nan Li
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Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective study [PDF]
Objectives: To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and behavioural risk factors.
Vahtera, J. +4 more
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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Corporate Downsizing to Rebuild Team Spirit: How Costly Voting Can Foster Cooperation [PDF]
We propose a new mechanism to achieve coordination through voting, for which we discuss a number of real-life applications. Among them, the mechanism provides for a new theory for downsizing in organizations.
Cabrales, Antonio +1 more
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Organisational dehumanisation: Authoritativeness as remedy
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié +2 more
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HR Practitioners' Role in Leadership Development and Their Use of Tailoring Strategies
ABSTRACT Human resource development increasingly emphasizes strategic training and development activities to support the growth of leaders and their leadership skills. This underscores the growing importance of human resource (HR) practitioners, who are often responsible for overseeing leadership development (LD).
Manuela Schmidt +2 more
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Background and Objective: Nowadays, downsizing the government to have an effective and flexible organization is considered to be government’s top priority in the world and outsourcing is one of the ways to achieve this goal.
MD Omrani +4 more
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Acquirer Strategic Orientations, Integration Decisions, and Performance
Abstract Integration decisions are not isolated, as they are embedded in an organizational context. Using a multi‐country sample (Nordics, German speaking Europe, and China) of small‐ and medium‐sized acquirers, we explore the influence of firm strategic orientations on how managers conceptualize acquisitions, make integration decisions, and impact ...
Florian Bauer +5 more
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Training and Retaining Public Servants for the Future
Demographic changes with an ageing population and declining birth rates, alongside economic challenges, have implications for the public service labour market.
Karen Johnston, Andrew Massey
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Abstract We theorize how state ownership reweights organizational objectives when political and market conditions shift. Using a mixed‐method, history‐to‐theory design, we examine 160 state‐owned and 132 private Brazilian firms from 1973 to 1993. We argue that two mechanisms – appointment politicization and constituency‐protection salience – alter ...
Paul Ferreira +2 more
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