Questions to consider at the Academy of Marketing Conference, Vancouver. Discover how your institution or organization can be influenced by the latest research findings published by Emerald.

1. Discovering
Open Governance

2. Questions to consider for
Academy of Management Conference,
Vancouver 2015

3. Are women the same as
men in the workplace?

4. Nobel prize winner Tim Hunt suggested
women shouldn’t be allowed in labs
because they ‘distract men’, and ‘are
emotional’.

5. Gender in Management suggests both men and women
bring their own values into the working environment:
“Individuals embody the gendered and gendering social
structures and values that are constantly being produced
and reproduced within society and academia.”

6. How can you improve employee
retention to enhance productivity
and morale?

7. Journal of Management Development encourages incorporation
of “empowerment initiatives” (EIs) into their work-life offerings:
“EIs may teach employees how to recognize whether a
particular work-life policy is appropriate … [and] for
employees who do not use traditional policies, there may be
strategies and skills that they can learn to more effectively
manage multiple life roles in their existing work context”

8. If employees are perceived as low
maintenance, does this influence
leader cognition, affect, and
behaviour?

9. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
suggests that when employer-employee relationships flourish,
employees experience need fulfilment and employers, customers,
and local communities benefit from organizational members’
labour.
When employment relationships derail “the ability of
organizations to satisfy the interests of its many
stakeholders may be compromised.”

10. Will a human resource
management (HRM) solve all
your problems?

11. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness suggests human
resource practices can help build the knowledge and skill
base as well as evoke relevant behaviour.
Reward systems, culture, and other aspects of HRM
influence the extent to which employees are willing to
create, share, and apply knowledge internally.

12. How does the HRM strategy shift through
descending hierarchies?

13. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness suggests that, after
a strategic shift, successful implementation of a HRM
strategy decreases down through the hierarchies.
A large strategic shift will pose problems as human
capital further down the hierarchy is likely to stay aligned
to the old strategy.

14. How can you have mutually
satisfying employment
relationships?

15. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
puts the emphasis on leader perceptions of employment
relationships.
Maintenance perceptions are central to understanding
how employee behaviour is understood and acted
upon by individuals in leadership positions.

16. Can you achieve open governance
in your organization?

17. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
suggests that high-risk behaviours are more likely to translate
into higher maintenance evaluations for low-LMX employees
than for high-LMX employees:
“As leader-member exchange quality increases, the
strength of the relationship between the behavioural risk
factors and employee maintenance will decrease.”

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