BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa, the capacity of human resources for health (HRH) managers to create positive practice environments that enable motivated, productive, and high-performing HRH is weak. We implemented a unique approach to examining HRH management practices by comparing perspectives offered by mid-level providers (MLPs) of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in Tanzania to those prese...

Human resource management has increasingly become one of the most important challenging issues in the pharmaceutical industry in general and in developing countries in particular to increase the access of societies to needed medicines. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the challenges of human resource management practices surrounding pharmaceutical firms in Iran, as a developing cou...

Human resource management has increasingly become one of the most important challenging issues in the pharmaceutical industry in general and in developing countries in particular to increase the access of societies to needed medicines. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the challenges of human resource management practices surrounding pharmaceutical firms in Iran, as a developing cou...

Volunteers have long been regarded as an essential part of the staging major sport events both to encourage community participation and contain labour costs. Major often attract a large pool applicants which exceeds number volunteer positions available. Selecting best qualified for available requires selection processes that are fair, effective, efficient from event organising committee perspec...

Human resource practices are important to enable a company to gain competitive advantage (Barney & Wright, 1998) and enjoy global sustainability (Gollan, 2005). Effective implementation of strategic human resource management is essential and significant in shaping the success of a business (Hoque, 1999) as well as in building human capital or people management as a competitive advantage. Many M...

importance of human resources and its unique role as a strategic resource, designer and systems executive and organizational systems has found higher position than in the past as far as the advanced enterprise thinking considers human being as the most important resource and asset for an organization. today, new approaches to human resource management emphasizes that should human resource with ...

Despite the extensive research in human capital management and performance measurement, intelligent treasoning mechanisms, which integrate human resource (HR) practices into strategic-level shareholder decisions, are still emerging. This paper discusses a novel approach of designing a decision-modeling tool, which assesses the impact of contemporary human resource management (HRM) practices to ...

While research shows that talent management (TM) practices are linked to individual and organisational outcomes, little is known about the mechanisms through which these processes unfold, especially in public sector of emerging market economies. This exploratory study investigates TM context Bahrain addressing an important gap. Drawing on Organisational Support Theory (OST) strategic human reso...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...