Personnel Review: Volume 39 Issue 2

Are we doing the right thing?: Food for thought on training evaluation and its context

Antonio Giangreco, Andrea Carugati, Antonio Sebastiano

This paper aims to advance the debate regarding the use of training evaluation tools, chiefly the Kirkpatrick model, in reaction to minimal use of the tools reported in the…

Exploring expatriates' behavioural reaction to institutional injustice on host country level

Ingo Forstenlechner

The purpose of this paper is to add to knowledge on the environment of self‐initiated expatriates and their perception of justice in their host country, to identify whether the…

The effects of demotion on older and younger employees

Edith Josten, René Schalk

Demotion is sometimes recommended as an instrument for extending older workers' labor force participation. There is, however, very little research on the effects of demotion on…

Horizontal and vertical communication as determinants of professional and organisational identification

Jos Bartels, Oscar Peters, Menno de Jong, Ad Pruyn, Marjolijn van der Molen

This paper aims to present the results of a study into the relationship between horizontal and vertical communication and professional and organisational identification.

Managerial training effectiveness: A meta‐analysis 1952‐2002

K. Skylar Powell, Serkan Yalcin

The purpose of this paper is to add to the significant contributions of past research by assessing what the overall effectiveness of managerial training has been over a period of…

Assessing the effects of organizational identification on in‐role job performance and learning behaviour: The mediating role of learning goal orientation

Aamir Ali Chughtai, Finian Buckley

The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of organizational identification on in‐role job performance and two learning behaviours, namely, feedback seeking and error…

Leading the Board: The Six Disciplines of World Class Chairmen

Munir Nanji