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Assessing the pay communication, knowledge and satisfaction of exempt employees at Medtronic Vascular
Maloney, Maureen; Morris, David (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
Maloney, Maureen; Morris, David (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 ... -
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
Hilliard, Rachel M.; Jacobson, D. (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 ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
Hilliard, Rachel (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 ... -
Dynamic capability in action at PharmaCorp
Hilliard, Rachel (Tilde University Press, 2012)Crann Iorrais Teoranta (CIT) was established in 1987 in Co Mayo in Ireland as a forestry company engaged in a wide range of forestry-based activities for the private, commercial and semi-state sectors throughout Ireland. ... -
Environmental performance and practice across sectors: methodology and preliminary results
Hilliard, Rachel; Parker, Valerie (2011)This paper introduces a new methodology for measuring and modeling manufacturers' environmental performance and the managerial and technological practices that affect it. Facility level licensing data are used to develop ... -
Global human resource development: landscaping the anatomy of an evolving field
Garavan, Thomas N.; McCarthy, Alma; Morley, Michael J. (Routledge, 2016)[No abstract available] -
Human resource development in Ireland and the UK
McCarthy, Alma (Routledge, 2016)[No abstract available] -
Human Resource Development in Multinational Organisations: Introductory Forward to Special Issue
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The impact of DC (defined contribution) scheme structure and communication policies: a bounded rationality framework
Maloney, Maureen (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 ... -
Increasing pension participation rates through automatic enrolment: a critique of firm size
Maloney, Maureen; McCarthy, Alma (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 ... -
Lotus Automation
Cunningham, James (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 ... -
LotusWorks
Cunningham, James; Hilliard, Rachel (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 ... -
Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of PRSAs using bounded rationality theory
Maloney, Maureen (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 ... -
Pension scheme defaults: questionable foundations and unconsidered outcomes
Maloney, Maureen (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: ... -
Realism or Idealism? Corporate social responsibility and the employee stakeholder in the global fast-food Industry
Royle, Tony (2005)The more extreme forms of employee exploitation usually found in third world or developing countries, often receives a lot of media attention. Much less is said about the exploitation of employees in the industrialised ... -
Regional Aspects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of the Irish Pharmaceutical Sector
Hilliard, Rachel; Jacobson, David (Liffey Press, 2003)This chapter develops a broader than conventional understanding of regional policy that takes into consideration the functionally and sectorally specific effects of local institutions and policies. It does this through an ... -
(Still) Up to No Good: Reconfiguring Worker Resistance and Misbehaviour in an Increasingly Unorganized World
van den Broek, Diane; Dundon, Tony (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 ... -
Understanding pension communications at the organizational level: insights from bounded rationality theory & implications for HRM
Maloney, Maureen; McCarthy, Alma (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 ... -
Unitarism and employer resistance to trade unionism
Cullinane, Niall; Dundon, Tony (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 ...