Call for Papers, Personnel Review: Special Issue on HR and the younger worker

12-May-2005

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Hedley Malloch has asked me to post here about a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue of Personnel Review. The subject of the special issue is "HR and the younger worker". Enquiries, expressions of interest and submission of abstracts (500 words maximum) should be sent to any of the Guest Editors shown at the address below. Abstracts should arrive by 1 October, 2005.
From the emerald journals site, Call for Papers:

The younger worker, (broadly defined as being aged between 16-24) occupies a unique place in national labour markets and in firmsÂ’ employment and training systems. Their role is both changing and increasing in importance in the light of shifts in environmental conditions, such as globalisation, a growing role for international HR collaborations, demographic shifts, skill shortages, changing linkages between national training and education systems, the emerging pensions crisis, the evolving role of state and voluntary agencies in the labour market, new employment laws both at national and international level the emergence of new ideas of competency and their measurement, the emerging role of community HR, and the rise of diversity management

Despite this, the HR issues associated with the recruitment, training and employment of the younger worker have been neglected both in HR theory and practice. Articles are invited which address this gap. Papers can be of a theoretical or empirical nature, or investigate practical concerns. They can be drawn from any research tradition; contributions of both a quantitative and qualitative nature are invited. Papers offering comparative international perspectives will be particularly welcome. Topic could include:

  • The recruitment and socialisation of younger workers
  • Globalisation and the younger worker
  • New VET and competence accreditation systems at industry, national and international level including changing models of apprenticeship
  • Trades unions, workplace representation and the younger worker
  • Diversity management and the younger worker
  • The role of state and voluntary agencies in the youth labour market
  • Community HR projects and the younger worker
  • Performance and reward management issues.

Enquiries, expressions of interest and submission of abstracts (500 words maximum) should be sent to any of the Guest Editors shown at the address below. Abstracts should arrive by 1 October, 2005. Completed articles of between 5,000 - 8,000 words should be submitted in triplicate by 1 April, 2006 at the latest for review. Articles will be double-blind reviewed. The issue will be published in the end of 2007

Guest Editors

Associate Professor Dr. Hedley Malloch,
IESEG School of Management,
Catholic University of Lille,
3 rue de la Digue,
F-59000 Lille,
France.
Tel: +33/320-545-892;
Fax +33/320-574-855
Email: h.malloch@ieseg.fr

Assistant Professor Dr. Birigt Kleymann,
IESEG School of Management,
Catholic University of Lille,
3 rue de la Digue,
F-59000 Lille,
France.
Tel: +33/320-545-892;
Fax +33/320-574-855
Email : b.kleymann@ieseg.fr

Assisant Professor Jacques Angot,
IESEG School of Management,
Catholic University of Lille,
3 rue de la Digue,
F-59000 Lille,
France.
Tel: +33/320-545-892;
Fax +33/320-574-855
Email : j.angot@ieseg;fr


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