Personnel Review: Volume 27 Issue 3

Issues in human resource management in central Europe

A.D. Jankowicz

Provides a number of basic indicators in support of the assertion that, while the general‐management literature on post‐command developments in central and eastern Europe is well…

Contextual influences on human resource management in the Czech Republic

Anne Mills

Comprises the first stage of a two‐part study on emerging paradigms of human resource management in the Czech Republic. Conceptualises the process by means of appropriate HRM…

Managing human resources in a post‐command economy: personnel administration or strategic HRM

Thomas Garavan, Michael Morley, Noreen Heraty, Jacinta Lucewicz, Adam Suchodolski

Reviews the changes in personnel/HRM practices within a post‐command economy. Explores personnel/HRM practices within 25 Polish companies and reports on the diversity of…

Transition and human resources in Slovakia

Hugo Letiche

Questions whether human resources are being viewed in Slovakia in a manner which transcends profit maximisation. Compares three cases of corporate HR action in post‐communism: two…

Understandings of conflict: a cross‐cultural investigation

Monica Lee

Two understandings of “conflict” are derived from a multi‐cultural East‐West experience: as a fundamental threat in which conflict is normally avoided, and as competitive games in…

Personnel in transition: the case of Polish women personnel managers

Mary Crow

Explores the impact of marketisation and enterprise restructuring processes on a Polish case study organisation. “Polskie” illustrates that certain western HRM practices are…