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The Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies (JHRSS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the intersection of human resource management and corporate sustainability. The journal publishes high-quality theoretical and empirical research examining how human resource practices, employee…
Go Igusa
This paper focuses on the issue of annual paid leave that is left untaken by physicians in a difficult working environment from the perspective of hospital managers and clarifies the reasons why physicians cannot (will not) take leave through interviews with…
San Qing Wu, Jia Xiao
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is one kind of extra-role behavior beyond formal role descriptions which can be conducted to enforce company’s competency to copy with external competitive pressures as well as internal flat organizational hierarchies…
Dana Balas-Timar, Valentina E. Balas, Alina Costin
This paper is presenting a model for a better prediction of long term job performance as seen by a Multinational Company from the West side of Romania (51 staff). This study is discussing a human resources procedure on recruiting assessment and its valid conn…
Guohai Chen, Jie Ai, Yamin You
This paper aims to explore managerial coaching behaviours and their relations to job satisfaction, life satisfaction and orientations to happiness. Chinese Managerial Coaching Behaviours Inventory, Chinese translation of the Orientations to Happiness Scale, G…
Go Igusa
In this study a survey using questionnaires was conducted to understand the actual condition of the relationship between methods for taking paid vacation and its usage rate; to focus on verifying the relationship quantitatively by empirical analysis; and to p…
Urkhan Alakbarov
Insert environment that will foster the effective management of natural resources. This is one of the significant prerequisites for managing development processes in a sustainable way for transitioning to what is defined below as an ecological civilization. T…
Sheng Yao, Haotian Liang
Though there are studies on the relation between political connections and financial performance in the current literature, few have addressed the issue of political connections within the context of the environment. Thus, the goal of this study was to prove,…
Evans Brako Ntiamoah, Priscilla Oforiwaa Egyiri, Michael Kwamega
In this research, we addressed the following questions that are becoming increasingly important to managers in the banking industry of Ghana: is there a relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) awareness, firm commitment and organizational p…
Fernando Contreras Kuschnaroff, Fatima Oliveira Bayma
The present study intends to consider about Internet’s participation into organizations and a phenomenon called “Cyberslacking” which has passed to designate the use of informatics equipments and systems disposed by the employers for personal use in the work…
Ting Ting Chen, Tomonori Honda, Eiji Hosoda, Kohji Hayase
We empirically investigate the relationship between environmental management and economic performance using such data as environmental rating, credit rating, and accumulated earnings ratio of companies listed in the manufacturing sector on the first section o…
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