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Global human resource development: landscaping the anatomy of an evolving field
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Shaping the agenda 1: exploring the competencies, skills and behaviours of effective workplace mediators
(Kennedy Institute Workplace Mediation Research Group, 2016)The Kennedy Institute Workplace Mediation Research Group (KIWMRG) is a group of academics and mediation practitioners attached to the Kennedy Institute of Conflict Resolution, Maynooth University, Ireland. The ... -
Shaping the agenda 2: implications for workplace mediation training, standards and practice in Ireland
(Kennedy Institute Workplace Mediation Research Group (KIWMRG), 2016)The aim of this project is two-fold: To provide a comprehensive review of the international literature regarding the competencies, skills, and behaviours of effective workplace mediators and To provide an analysis of the ... -
Pension scheme defaults: questionable foundations and unconsidered outcomes
(2015-03-27)Inertia, the behaviour of doing nothing and allowing the current situation to prevail, is reported in many empirical pension studies. However, the reasons for the behaviour are not agreed. Various explanations include: ... -
Increasing pension participation rates through automatic enrolment: a critique of firm size
(2016-09-01)This paper focuses on the question: “Will automatic enrolment (AE) legislation impact on the participation rates for small firms?” We develop a model to explain why large organisations are more likely to offer pensions ... -
The impact of DC (defined contribution) scheme structure and communication policies: a bounded rationality framework
(2015-09-11)Concepts from bounded rationality, particularly biases, are frequently used to explain the successes and the failures of pension scheme defaults. This research suggests that pension literature has focused on pension ... -
Assessing the pay communication, knowledge and satisfaction of exempt employees at Medtronic Vascular
(NUI Galway, 2009-04-01)Medtronic Vascular is a US-based multinational that develops technologies to provide lifelong solutions for people with chronic diseases. Over 2,000 people are employed in Ireland with most of the company’s employees ... -
A case study investigation of the efforts of a subsidiary of a US-based multinational corporation to promote pension savings
(2010-09-01)The pension situation faced by all Irish workers is complex and uncertain. Further, it is possible that the state will be unable to maintain the current level of pension provision in real terms. This is based on demographic ... -
Variables that impact on voluntary pension contributions: a case study
(2011)This paper reports on qualitative research based on 24 semi-structured interviews, using a stratified sample with employees in a single case study setting. The employing organisation is Medtronic, a US-based multinational ... -
Understanding pension communications at the organizational level: insights from bounded rationality theory & implications for HRM
(Elsevier, 2016-08-10)This paper applies concepts from bounded rationality theory to develop an integrative model to understand how pension scheme structure and pension scheme communication impact pension participation and contribution rates ... -
Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of PRSAs using bounded rationality theory
(2014)This paper applies the theory of bounded rationality to study small employer pension provision decision-making in Ireland. PRSA pension products were intended to provide inexpensive, flexible pension options, particularly ... -
Cultural Control and the Culture Manager: Employment Practices in a Consultancy
(Work Employment and Society, 2000-01-01)This article explores the use of company culture as a means of management control. It reports research conducted in a consultancy that aimed to secure loyalty from its employees through a conscious policy of organised play ... -
Human Resource Development in Multinational Organisations: Introductory Forward to Special Issue
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Unitarism and employer resistance to trade unionism
(2012)Active employer resistance to trade union recognition is often explained through the rubric of the unitary ideology. Yet, little attention has been devoted to an examination of unitarism as an explanatory construct for ... -
(Still) Up to No Good: Reconfiguring Worker Resistance and Misbehaviour in an Increasingly Unorganized World
(2012)The way industrial conflict and worker resistance have been analyzed has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades. While researchers have observed the quantitative decline of traditional forms of ... -
Cluster Versus Firm Specific Factors in the Development of Dynamic Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Ireland: A Study of Responses to Changes in Environmental Protection Regulations
(2011)Cluster versus firm specific-factors in the development of dynamic capabilities in the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland: a study of responses to changes in environmental protection regulations, Regional Studies. This ... -
LotusWorks
(Orpen Press, 2010)Key issues facing LotusWorks are how to double turnover within four years, increase the company's global impact and ensure that the appropriate management structures and employee talents are in place for LotusWorks to ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
(Tilde University Press, 2012)PharmaCorp is a subsidiary of one of Japan's largest pharmaceutical companies, employing 60 people in its Dublin bulk pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The plant makes the active ingredients for four products, supplying ... -
Lotus Automation
(Blackhall Press, 2009)A few days back from a trip to China, Fergal Broder is driving into the offices of LotusAutomation in Sligo for a meeting with his Chief Financial Officer and other members of his management team. He is looking forward to ...