AOM 2010, Montreal

14 Aug

As always Academy of Management was hectic and inspirational – 5 days of intense learning, presenting and networking.

This year I started my AOM experience earlier due to a pre-preconference event. Namely, I recently joined a group of researchers named 5C – they study careers in cross-cultural setting – and our meeting was scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday before the Academy at McGill University. This was my first contact with this very interesting group of people. I enjoyed listening to experts talking about careers, learned a lot, and tried to contribute as much as I could to the discussion. The meeting ended with a challenging agenda for the future.

The AOM annual event itself was full of great content, meeting old friends and making new contacts. The meeting of HR Ambassadors was packed with high expectations before the launch of our commonly created international HR casebook. The PDWs and scholarly sessions were interesting but …according to Murphy’s law :) sometimes scheduled at the same time or far apart (this time the organizers really cared for fitness of participants, jogging between various conference locations was my favourite sport, too :) ). Our symposium about Bridging micro-macro divides in Strategic HRM was well attended and generated some interesting comments and questions.

This year I volunteered to be a mentor to two first-time participants – it was a great and very rewarding experience – have to do it next year. Strange enough, out of almost 10,000 participants, I bumped into my mentee on the first day of the conference ordering coffee. What a coincidence!

All in all, AOM in Montreal was great and I am looking forward to Texas next year.

Mentoring new members

Research seminar at Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales

15 Jun

During my research stay Down Under I gave a research seminar at the Australian School of Business. I was amazed by the mere size of the UNSW campus and enjoyed very much the discussion we had about People, Organizational Context, and Social Networks (my prezi can be found under resources). My seminar was used as a cue for a broader discussion about how organizational context can affect the development of intraorganizational networks in contrast to the more frequently addressed personal characteristics, individual differences and endogenous (structural) mechanisms. During my visit I also got the chance to examine academic career systems and the business education industry in Asia-Pacific. Interestingly enough and in contrast to Europe they are hiring and doing very well. On top of that, Steve Frankel, Suzanne Chan-Serafin and Sunghoon Kim provided a memorable experience of Chinese dining in Sydney (featuring BYO :) ).

Research seminar at ACREW, Monash University

14 Jun

Being in Melbourne it would be a sin not to visit ACREW at the Monash University. Therefore, Helen de Cieri and I agreed on a research seminar for their doctoral students and faculty. Monash University is only an hour away from University of Melbourne, so I caught a tram and enojeyed the suburbs to Caulfield. It was nice to see Helen again after several years and exchange our views about where we think the fields of HRM and international HRM are going.

My research stay Down Under: Faboulous and intelectually stimulating time at the University of Melbourne

12 Jun

In April and May I took some time off from teaching and went for a fantastic research stay in Australia. The time spent in Vicotria and NSW was interesting, fruitful and …I have to admit :) …very engaged and busy. I finaly had some time to think through my exisitng research work and set guideliness for the future. In addtion, I worked on the content of my research interests and learned new methodological approaches. But most of all I met really great people, with whom I started promising projects. My host at the Universtiy of Melbourne, Department of Management and Marketing, was Sachiko Yamao, who put a lot of effort in making my stay just perfect. We had some great discussions and started writing a paper…I bet it is going to be a success :) Sachiko kindly introduced me her colleagues at the Department and beyond – they were all very friendly and supporting (also in explaining Australian sports, interenational society and business context to me).

By observing them at work I can see now why the University of Melbourne was the first and only Australian university to rank in the Top 100 of the Business and Economics subject area accoring to Times Higher Eduaction rankings. My other host in Melbourne was the School of Behaviroral Sceinces, specifically, Pip Patisson and the Melnet people. Discussions with them were in a way eye-opening for me. It was really fascinating to see them constantly developing new quantitative methods custom-made for solving specific research problems as they came along – something the we in business and management, who are used of of the shelf solutions and software packages can only dream of. Eric Quintane and Galina Daraganova were especially supportinve in helping me with PNET and its peculiarities :)

I really appprecite the opportunity the was given to me and hope that I will be able to visit Melbourne again.

Research seminar at Ca Foscari University, Venice

12 Mar

This Monday I held a research seminar entitled “Social network perspectives and methodology in HRM research” to a group of PhD students and colleagues at Ca’ Foscari University, Faculty of Economics. Located in the Italian city of Venice, it was founded in 1868 as the first Italian business college. The main building of the University, Ca’ Foscari Palace, is placed in a strategic position on the bend of the Grand Canal, in the heart of Venice. The audience had several really challenging questions about the topic. In addition, we discussed various publishing strategies.

 

The hosts were extremely hospitable and my stay in this beautiful city was very enjoyable.

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Work – life balance talk you should watch

22 Jan

I strongly recommend this TED talk about work-life balance. Some of my favourites are: getting to work in jeans can not really be considered work-life balance, going to gym is not being more balanced but more fit, you can not have an ideally balanced day (you should elongate the timeframe upon which we judge the balance in our life). Enjoy.

 

 

 

Research Seminar at the Dublin City Universtiy (LInK Centre)

15 Dec

Today I am talking at the DCU LInK and meeting my Irish colleagues. The topic of my talk will be:

How can we use social network perspectives in HRM research: An example and a look ahead.


Razvojna vizija Slovenije je na dlani! Jasno: Zeleno

25 Oct

V zadnjem času se zdi, da vsi iščejo novo razvojno pot Slovenije. Tu je moj prispevek…

Mislim, da je ta na dlani…vsi jo čutimo, a je ne znamo ubesediti. Kljub trenutnim težavam, ki jih ima Slovenija, je kakovost življenja v naši državi še vedno na zelo zavidljivi ravni. Povprečnemu Slovencu je kjer koli v Sloveniji v radiju manj kot 100 km, velikokrat pa par minut od doma, na voljo toliko raznovrstnosti in neokrnjenih naravnih lepot kot redko kateremu drugemu prebivalcu na naši krogli. Včasih pomaga kakšna ocena od zunaj – kot recimo tale ocena uglednega National Geographic Travelerja, da nas spomni na to, kaj imamo.

Slovenija ima odlične predispozicije, da postane vodilna svetovna sila na področju zelenega. Ne samo v osrčju Slovenije kot turistične blagovne znamke, ampak nasploh. Od eko-pridelave hrane, preko ekološkega turizma, do razvoja zelenih tehnlogij, zelenih proizvodov in predvsem celovitih storitev s tega področja. Glede na geografsko majhnost Slovenije, njene naravne danosti in pregovorno ljubezen Slovencev do svojega bivanjskega okolja bi lahko v desetletju ali dveh postali država z največjim deležem zelenih dejavnosti v BDP. Pri ponujanju “zelenega” izven Slovenije, pa bi bili gotovo precej bolj kredibilni kot kakšna Kitajska. Seveda pot do tja ni lahka in je polna izzivom, a menim, da je dovolj zanimiva, da bi zanjo uspeli anagžirati kritično maso naših sodržavljanov. Je tudi dovolj politično nevtralna, da bi lahko združila nesrečno polariziran slovenski politični prostor.

Vizija torej: Slovenija bo do leta 2025 med vodilni svetovnimi ponudnicami zelenih tehnologij, proizvodov in storitev.

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Forthcoming in the European Journal of International Management

8 Oct

European Journal of International Management is a new, very ambitious journal with a great track record already in its first couple of years on the scene. Here is the abstract of our forthcoming paper Human capital and structural position in knowledge networks as determinants when classifying employee groups for strategic HRM purposes in EJIM:

Until recently most theoretical models and empirical investigations in the strategic HRM field focused on inter-firm rather than intra-firm variability and thus implicitly assumed the adoption of the same HR practices (bundles) for managing all employee groups in a firm. Existing classifications of employees for strategic HRM purposes are mostly based on human capital and the employment mode. Through the lens of the knowledge-based view of the firm, we examine the ways in which an individual employee is valuable to a firm and suggest that an individual’s structural position in knowledge networks should also be considered. By conducting a social network analysis of an SME we establish that studying an individual’s relationship-based characteristics (i.e., an individual’s structural position in knowledge networks) strengthens the reasoning for employee classification and should thus be considered for strategic HRM purposes.

Izšla je knjiga Menedžment človeških virov

17 Sep

Za tiste, ki še ne veste. Izšla je knjiga “Menedžment človeških virov”. Knjiga celovito obravnava področje, ki ga v tujini najdemo pod besedno zvezo “Human Resource Management”. Urednika revije sta Ivan Svetlik in Nada Zupan, pri pisanju pa smo sodelomcv-naslovnicaali tudi: Miroslav Stanojević, Stane Možina, Andrej Kohont in Robert Kaše. Več informacij o knjigi dobite tukaj.

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