Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Top Five: Advances in Developing Human Resources
This week, we present the top five most-read articles currently available from Advances in Developing Human Resources. Covering a range of topics, […]
Social Science sites of the week
In the news this week. The budget. HM Treasury: Budget 2013 policy decisions See our recommended academic links See also the twitter […]
Best Practices in Diversity Management
Each year, Diversity Inc. puts out a Top 50 list recognizing companies with outstanding diversity practices. A new study in Cornell Hospitality […]
Why Companies Choose to Rent, Not Buy
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Kristina Wittkowski and Sabine Moeller, both of EBS Business School, and Jochen Wirtz of NUS Business […]
Will Social Science Research Cuts Affect the Human Rights Situation in the U.S.?
On social science, the sequester, and the need for a Human Rights Culture.
Employee Proactivity: How Social Support Matters
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome Dan S. Chiaburu of Texas A&M University, whose article “Employees’ Social Context and Change-Oriented Citizenship: […]
Toxic, Poisonous and Stupid: Iraq War Decision-Making Ten Years On
Even within its own narrow terms the Iraq war was appallingly costly. A bad decision to invade was compounded by shambolic and ineffective leadership of the warfighting itself. Why? The answer seems to lie in the ways in which contemporary large organizations behave
Risk Management Approach Could Motivate Climate Change Action
Is it possible that modern society’s bitter political divisions over belief in anthropogenic climate change is distracting decision-makers from the far more practical matter of confronting the risk that it presents, directly or indirectly, to businesses and the economy?
