Almina Besic

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Professor (Assistant) at Johannes Kepler University of Linz

This study addresses changes in human resource management (HRM) practices of six Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries during the COVID-19 pandemic by highlighting similarities and differences across the countries. We indicated the growing significance of the human factor while also pointing out significant differences between organisations...

This study introduces a translation perspective to analyze the policy harmonization process, highlighting imitation, brokering, and editing in shaping policy dynamics at EU and national levels. The translation perspective emphasizes that while policy development is ongoing, the protracted process signals a shift in EU‐wide coordination of skilled l...

The arrival of Ukrainian refugees in the European Union (EU) has reignited debates about the accessibility of labour markets, deskilling and underemployment. The Ukrainian case is especially significant because most refugees are highly skilled women and the implementation of the EU's temporary protection directive has provided them with immediate a...

Purpose This study focuses on HR practices that foster employee engagement during Covid-19. Companies in transition economies are particularly vulnerable to crisis and downsizing and other recessionary practices are frequently used. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the model of caring human resource management, we utilise interviews with hum...

Skilled migrant workers often experience downward career mobility post‐migration. We investigate how diversity climate as an organizational response to support migrants affects the career satisfaction of migrant employees. Survey data from 179 skilled migrants working in Sweden reveal that perceived diversity climate impacts career satisfaction thr...

Crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic have impacted the employment of migrants in various forms. Given the general challenges migrants face when entering and progressing in receiving countries’ labor markets, in this chapter, we address how the pandemic has affected their employment, inclusion at work, and career trajectories. Through qualitative se...

Refugees’ labour market integration is a “grand challenge” of contemporary society. Research and practice have highlighted obstacles that refugees face when entering host country labour markets, for example, related to integration policies, support measures and language skills. Although these obstacles are well known, the question of how support to...

Labour-market integration is understood as an important pillar in the successful integration processes of refugees into host societies. In the European Union at large and in Austria specifically, refugee integration processes regarding societies and the labour market have become hotly debated topics in public and scholarly debates. Focusing on Aust...

Firms need to re-think strategizing to cope with demands posed by the VUCA environment and therefore, some consider opening up their strategic process to include stakeholders with the objective to get more innovative and diverse ways of approaching strategizing. To date, however, little is known about the practices in open strategy processes. There...

Firms need to re-think strategizing to cope with demands posed by the VUCA environment and therefore, some consider opening up their strategic process to include stakeholders with the objective to get more innovative and diverse ways of approaching strategizing. To date, however, little is known about the practices in open strategy processes. There...

Due to complex and uncertain environments, more and more companies are forced to rethink strategizing and to consider opening up their strategy process to include stakeholders with the objective to get more innovative and diverse inputs. To date, however, little is known about the dynamics in an open strategy process. Therefore, the aim of this lon...

The need to integrate refugees into the labour markets across the European Union has put public service organisations at the forefront of support provision, but little is known about their role and challenges. This study investigates how these organisations in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden organise labour market integration support measures...

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its multidimensional impacts on organisational management, inspired this special issue. The issue presents a collection of full-length articles and research reports devoted to the experiences of enterprises during the first year of the pandemic in various East European countries (Poland, Hungary, the Cze...

Entwicklungen wie die digitale Transformation, der demografische Wandel und die zunehmende Globalisierung stellen Organisationen und die darin tätigen Führungskräfte kontinuierlich vor neue Herausforderungen. Die jährlich erscheinende Austrian Management Review schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Sie versteht sich als Dialogforum, das...

This paper addresses the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the labour market integration support (LMIS) organised for refugees in Austria and Sweden, and the potential consequences of the changes unfolding. LMIS for refugees is a complex phenomenon involving actors at different interwoven levels—the macro-national level, the meso-o...

Das Buch „Das Boot: Eine Fluchtgeschichte“ ist aus dem Bedürfnis heraus entstanden gesellschaftliche Einstellungen gegenüber Flüchtlingen infrage zu stellen und Kindern und Jugendlichen das Thema Flucht näherzubringen. Die verständliche und teilweise vertraute Erzählung mit anschaulichen und eingängigen Illustrationen bietet Lehrkräften und Eltern...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge about workplace diversity and equality in an under-researched country. Focusing on the south-eastern European transition economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it elaborates on the country’s legislation, public debate and previous research in the field. Design/methodology/approach T...

Purpose Focusing on an international trainee- and internship programme, this paper aims to propose a new framework that links organisational strategies regarding ethnic diversity with career competencies of the programme participants. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a case study design. It examines the interplay of the perspectives of...

Multinational companies coming to grips with the major challenges of international staffing have developed a new practice. In recent years management scholars observed the assignment of so‐called ‘expatriates of host‐country origin’ (EHCOs), that is, employees of migrant backgrounds in the companies’ parent country sent to work in their country of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the question how context-specific diversity management (DM) is and whether it is transferable by organisations. Design/methodology/approach – The authors explore context specificity and transferability of DM with the example of an Austrian company in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on the relational...

International staffing presents one of the major challenges of multinational companies. In recent years, staffing vacancies in international subsidiaries with employees who have a migration background related to the host country—so-called ‘expatriates of host-country origin (EHCOs)’—became an increasingly prevalent practice. However, little is know...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir Unterschiede zwischen der Arbeitszufriedenheit von Migrant/innen und Nicht-Migrant/innen. Diese werden theoretisch durch Unterschiede bei Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen und humankapitaltheoretische Ansätze abgeleitet und anhand von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) empirisch untersucht. ln Anbetracht der unterschi...