Browsing College of Business, Public Policy and Law by Author "McCarthy, Alma"
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Automatic enrolment to pension plans in small organisations: a research agenda
Maloney, Maureen; McCarthy, Alma (Emerald, 2019-01-07)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how firm size impacts pension workforce coverage with a particular focus on automatic enrolment (AE) to pension plans in small organisations. Design/methodology/approach The ... -
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] -
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 ... -
Leadership in the Irish Civil Service: A 360° Assessment of Senior Management Capability
McCarthy, Alma; Grady, Geraldine; Dooley, Gillian (CISC, 2011)[no abstract available] -
Pension provision by small employers in Ireland: an analysis of Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) using bounded rationality theory
Maloney, Maureen; McCarthy, Alma (Sciendo De Gruyter, 2017-12-29)This paper applies a model 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 ... -
Putting the system back into training and firm performance research: A review and research agenda
Garavan, Thomas N.; McCarthy, Alma; Lai, Yanqing; Clarke, Nicholas; Carbery, Ronan; Gubbins, Claire; Sheehan, Maura; Saunders, Mark N.K. (Wiley, 2021-03-12)Research investigating training and firm performance is currently at an inflection point; capable of recognising previous achievements but also having a focus on the future. Based on our review of 207 quantitative papers ... -
Remote working during COVID-19: Ireland's national survey - Phase II report
McCarthy, Alma; Bohle-Carbonell, Katerina; Ó Síocháin, Tomás; Frost, Deirdre (National University of Ireland Galway, Whitaker Institute and Western Development Commission, 2020-10)Introduction & Background The national remote working project is undertaken by NUI Galway and the Western Development Commission (WDC). This report sets out the findings of Phase II of the Remote Working during COVID-19 ... -
Remote working during COVID-19: Ireland’s national survey initial report
McCarthy, Alma; Ahearne, Alan; Bohle-Carbonell, Katerina; Ó Síocháin, Tomás; Frost, Deirdre (National University of Ireland Galway, Whitaker Institute and Western Development Commission, 2020-05)Introduction & Background The COVID-19 crisis catapulted hundreds of thousands of employees and their employers into a work pattern and routine vastly different to their normal daily work experience. This radical change ... -
Talent management in public science funding organizations: institutional logics, paradoxical tensions and HR actor responses
McCarthy, Alma; Garavan, Thomas; Holland, Denise; Bohle Carbonell, Katerina; Virtanen, Turo; O Kane, Paula; van Wart, Montgomery (Taylor and Francis, 2022-10-26)Drawing on a study of three public science funding organizations in Ireland, Finland and New Zealand, we investigate the implementation of talent management (TM) through the lens of institutional complexity and paradox ... -
Training and organisational performance: A meta-analysis of temporal, institutional, and organisational context moderators
Garavan, Thomas; McCarthy, Alma; Lai, Yanqing; Murphy, Kevin; Sheehan, Maura; Carbery, Ronan (Wiley, 2020-02-03)Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organisational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moderating effects of quality versus quantity 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 ...