Jane Maley

Sabanci University · School of Management

Business is dynamic and rapidly changing. Global markets were previously the playing field of multinational corporations (MNCs), while small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were local; however, the removal of imposed barriers, and recent technological advances in manufacturing, transportation and communications have indorsed SMEs and international en...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the development and consider the future of one of the most controversial areas of human resource development – employee performance management (PM). Design/methodology/approach Through bibliometrics, a multiple correspondence analysis identifies the main research directions of PM studies and provides a...

This study examines an important area of strategic global human resource management - expatriate managers' compensation in times of global business uncertainty. While expatriation has numerous well-documented benefits for multinational corporations (MNCs), it is incredibly costly. In consequence, when global business conditions become uncertain, th...

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of tacit knowledge transfer in a particular type of global manager - the inpatriate manager who is typically relocated from the MNC’s subsidiary to headquarter. To do so, we draw on social embeddedness theory. Our paper suggests that if an inpatriate manager becomes embedded within the MNCs headquart...

This paper examines how, in times of austerity, employee capabilities can assist firms in augmenting their human capital while at the same time meeting their financial obligations. Real option theory, a concept borrowed from economics, is used to provide a theoretical framework to demonstrate that management has choices when making decisions in tim...

We respond to recent calls to connect our understanding of stigma across and between levels of analysis by investigating how stigma management strategies to the same stigma vary and relate in nested industry, organizational, and individual actors. Drawing on data collected from 61 interviews with various workers in the coal industry in Australia, w...

This study aims to evaluate interventions and strategies used to retain junior doctors, with a specific focus on the roles of organizational climate, supportive leadership, and work engagement influenced by effective knowledge management practices. We examine how knowledge management—the systematic process of creating, sharing, using, and managing...

Purpose This conceptual work examines how, in times of post-COVID-19 paradigm shift, the employee performance management (PM) process can help multinational corporations (MNCs) strengthen their talent management and, at the same time, meet their future needs. Design/methodology/approach We take a conceptual approach and present our perspective on...

This conceptual work critically examines how employees in multinational corporations (MNCs) receive performance management (PM) systems. Employee acceptance of the PM system across MNCs' subsidiaries is critical for PM effectiveness. Furthermore, the context plays a significant role in determining employee acceptance of the PM, and this varies wide...

Sustainability scholars argue that sustainable human resource management (HRM) promotes positive financial, social, and human capital outcomes. Sustainability linked with people management creates an enduring business. However, many challenges exist for firms implementing and maintaining a sustainable HRM program. Evidence suggests that these chall...

Exploring the multifaceted challenges of women in engineering

The present research delves into the complex dynamics of gender equality, highlighting women's experiences within the engineering sector. Drawing from a literature spanning from 2005 to 2023, we gathered insights from 108 pertinent articles on the topic. Our results show that a substantial portion of research underscore the persistent biases and ba...

Purpose Coaching is a widespread form of human development that has grown considerably in recent years. However, it is not well understood in entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and little is known about the success factors for coaching in SMEs. Thus, this article presents a theoretical framework for coaching SMEs. The pa...

A synopsis of the Menopause at Work

This article investigates the impact of individual leadership values and capabilities on productivity outcomes in a contemporary manufacturing setting of Industry 4.0. Values are antecedents to individual leadership capabilities, yet little is known about the fundamental value-capability mechanism in developing distinctive leadership capabilities....

The proliferation of global crises has sparked MNCs’ interest in developing global managerial resilience to withstand economic, health, and climate crises. While resilient employees are more adept at recovering from unexpected or disruptive events, guidelines on how to develop global managerial resilience remain obscure. Drawing from practitioner a...

Increasing stress levels in the workplace is an economic and social issue for many industries, and coal mining is no exception. However, more recently mining coal has become an intense moral and ethical issue subjecting workers to psychosocial related stress. Previous research has demonstrated that resilience can help manage individual stress to im...

International mobility is an integral part of higher education strategy in Europe. This action has triggered the development of the Erasmus program, the most popular scheme for student credit mobility at the European level. Although the program has generally been a success, it also endures several weaknesses, among them, the financial and social se...

This research aims to investigate the impact of stewardship in family firms compared to non-family firms. Family firms are typically the dominant business in many countries, yet, the nature, structure, and management can lead to unique behavioural variations compared to non-family firms. This study empirically tests a sample of 316 firms (163 famil...

This research aims to investigate the impact of stewardship in family firms compared to non-family firms. Family firms are typically the dominant business in many countries, yet, the nature, structure, and management can lead to unique behavioural variations compared to non-family firms. This study empirically tests a sample of 316 firms (163 famil...

This study analyses international student mobility (ISM) in Europe since the 1999 Bologna Declaration. International mobility of higher education students is both a driver and a consequence of the Bologna Process and emerges as a relevant issue in a wide range of research areas. This literature review develops a qualitative content analysis of the...

This article examines the extent, nature and limitations of the global performance management process in multinational corporations and the subsequent impact that these issues may have on the psychological contract of cross-border employees. The findings suggest that when the performance management process is unacceptable to the employee, there is...

Purpose The study explores inpatriation and the role of performance management (PM) upon knowledge transfer through the theoretical lenses of leader–member exchange (LMX) and social embeddedness theories. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative approach and focuses on inpatriate managers at the headquarters of three large UK hea...

While renewable energy-based off-grid technologies present a promising solution for providing energy access for remote communities in developing countries, the evidence suggests that their functionality is often problematic. Previous studies have identified some operational and design factors influencing the performance of such off-grid systems. Ho...

Embodiment of Talent Management within Entrepreneurship: a Bibliometric Approach

This study describes an attempt to develop an integrative model of reciprocity, specifically as it is used in the organizational behavior field. Three issues have been identified in the literature: (i) the overlap of different meanings for existing taxonomy of the norm of reciprocity; (ii) an underestimation of some aspects of reciprocity; and (iii...

Purpose: The study explores inpatriation and the role of performance management (PM) upon knowledge transfer through the theoretical lenses of Leader Member Exchange (LMX) and social embeddedness theories. Design: The study adopts a qualitative approach and focuses on inpatriate managers at the headquarters of three large UK Healthcare Multination...

The aim of this article is to provide an analysis of the current state of international business research on the topic of globalisation, and to guide researchers who are new to international business research as to which journals and authors to consult when studying this phenomenon. The article presents a bibliometric analysis using the Web of Scie...

Employee Performance Management: Charting the Field from 1998-2018 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the development and consider the future of one of the most controversial areas of human resource development - employee performance management (PM). Design Through bibliometrics, a multiple correspondence analysis identifies the main...

This research explores and identifies the reasons that Australian corporations are not making more progress on gender diversity in senior leadership, by interviewing women in key senior positions to gain their insights into what is preventing organisations from making it a key strategic goal, while exploring the deeper reasons for the ongoing gende...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of managerial values in improving the effectiveness of employee performance management (EPM). Design/methodology/approach The research has been conducted as a conceptual study, in which EPM criteria are compared to managerial values and the related maturity model. A thorough review of the EP...

Missing the parents What are the HR implications when a multinational moves from direct reporting with its subsidiaries to a regional set up? Jane Maley and Robin Kramar report

International student mobility: the development and preliminary evaluation in the European Higher Education Area “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the wo...

This study explores the role of managerial values in improving the effectiveness of employee performance management (EPM). The research has been conducted as a conceptual study, in which EPM criteria are compared to managerial values and the related maturity model. A thorough review of the EPM and values literature identified relevant and significa...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the progress of performance management (PM) research published in leading management and psychology journals between 1997-2017. Using a bibliometrics approach crafts a rigorous and focused review of the ensuing PM literature (1997-2017). The findings reveal that PM studies are yielding helpful information and...

This study explores the role of managerial values in shaping performance appraisal (PA) practices. Managerial values been found to serve as frameworks that guide and determine action, goals, choices, decisions, attitudes, as well as persuading and influencing others; principles that are at the heart of an effective PA. Yet, despite extensive litera...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to map the intellectual structure of conflict management studies by investigating the key themes, concepts and their relationships for the period 2007–2017. The study updates the previous decade (1997-2006) investigation by Ma et al. (2008) to reflect the increased publication efforts in the field. Design/metho...

As the number of workers taking international assignments increases, companies have more responsibility to look after their LGBTI employees who face persecution while on assignment.

This study provides a theoretical framework in which to understand and compare and contrast the complexity of the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) internationalization process in two major trading blocs in Asia – the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It provides a useful analysis of the ways in which tr...

Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) expatriates are rightfully sceptical, and at times fearful, of international assignment experiences, owing to the sometimes hostile reception at assignment locations as a result of their sexual orientation. The authors argue that this hostility arises from a perceived incompatibility in values between the host countr...

As the number of workers taking international assignments increases, companies have more responsibility to look after their LGBTI employees who face persecution while on assignment. Russia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are becoming some of the most challenging expatriate assignment destinations for multinational firms, according to relocati...

Whilst, there is mounting evidence that human resource management can benefit multiple stakeholders, its effective implementation and operationalization has received limited attention. This conceptual paper discusses the strategic potential of performance management in supporting a multinational corporation’s sustainable approach to human resource...

While, expatriation has numerous well-documented benefits for organizations, it is often considered extremely costly and time consuming for MNCs. For this reason, when business conditions become hostile such as in times of economic uncertainty, the expatriate program in MNCs is typically targeted for cost saving. The ensuing outcome is argued to le...

This study questions the return on investment of inpatriate talent. The fundamental rational of this qualitative study is the need to more consciously manage the talent found in an increasingly diverse global talent pool. As part of this pool, an inpatriate is positioned to add operational value at headquarter, yet face a tremendously different set...

A minor digression, if you will: it has been over 30 years since I (referring to lead author) rst wrote on the topic of terrorism and its potential impact on conducting business in a global context. The most vivid memory I have relative to that initial foray into this new topic was making a presentation at the annual summer American Marketing Assoc...

The Sustainable HRM approach to management provides a means of making decisions which impact economic, social/human and ecological outcomes of an organisation. At the heart of Sustainable HRM is the need to reproduce or generate competencies, capabilities and human capital necessary for the organisation to survive and thrive. In times of global eco...

Purpose – As the internationalization process dictates the existence of cross-country networks it is essential to explore avenues that allow emerging market multinationals (EMNCs) to share and receive knowledge that can benefit them locally and globally. The purpose of this paper is to explore this conundrum by addressing the significance of creati...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate attitudes toward interacting with foreign nationals from emerging and developed markets. Differences in attitudes are assessed using liability-of-foreignness factors. Design/methodology/approach – Purposive sample collected at a private university in Australia; hierarchical linear modeling appr...

The aim of this paper is to examine how in times of global uncertainty, a sustainable approach to human resource management can assist multinational corporations. Real options theory is used to provide a theoretical framework to help see that management has choices when making HRM decision in uncertain times. This framework provides a means of unde...

Purpose The aim of the article is to analyze the rationale for choice of suppliers and the influence these decisions have on the firm’s capabilities. Design/methodology/approach We examine the choice of in-house operations versus buying maintenance in the Swedish mining industry through a qualitative case study approach. Findings The findings rev...

Distinct to expatriate managers at the subsidiary-level, inpatriate managers' influence at the headquarter (HQ)-level is controlled by the extent to which an inpatriate manager is able to ‘win’ status from HQ personnel. The primary goal of the paper is to conceptualize how organizational support, in the form of global talent management (GTM) practi...

This chapter looks at one of a multinational organisation’s (MNCs) most critical procedures. Specifically, it reviews the international performance management system. Performance management is the process by which organisations set goals, determine standards, assign and evaluate work, and distribute rewards. These systems are now widely and routine...

The aim of this conceptual paper is to examine how a Sustainable approach to human resource management (HRM) can assist MNCs during periods of global uncertainty? Our findings show how Sustainable HRM strategy may wield significant benefits during periods of global uncertainty. A practical framework is developed using a combination of dynamic capab...

We argue that current acculturation research offers an incomplete picture of the psychological processes as they occur on the longer-term assignments of inpatriate international assignments. These assignments refer to the strategic transference of personnel to the parent company headquarters for significant periods of time. We argue that the inpatr...

This manuscript explores stressors on what the global talent management literature terms inpatriation. An inpatriate employee of a multinational corporation is usually transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the multinational corporation’s headquarters. We argue that current research offers an incomplete picture of the psychological changes taking...

Purpose The aim of the article is to analyze the rationale for choice of suppliers and the influence these decisions have on the firm’s capabilities. Design/methodology/approach We examine the choice of in-house operations versus buying maintenance in the Swedish mining industry through a qualitative case study approach. Findings The findings revea...

This manuscript seeks to understand the formation of human resource (HR) management climate in multinational organizations as it is impacted by the introduction of a particular type of global assignee, the global manager. We herein raise the question of and how existing global performance management processes must be modified to effectively influen...

The aim of the article is to analyze the rational for choice of suppliers and the influence these decisions have on the firm’s core competencies. We examine the choice of in-house operations versus buying maintenance in the Swedish mining industry through a qualitative case study approach. The findings reveal a strong tendency to outsource maintena...

Purpose – The performance management process has typically focussed on the achievement of short-term financial goals and ignored longer-term broader goals such human, social and environmental goals. In an attempt to overcome this limitation, the purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits of a broader approach to performance management that of...

This study focuses on a critical mechanism of the international human resource management process: performance management. The study specifically explores how the process of global performance management is perceived by the country managers of multinational corporations' subsidiaries in Australia. The study reveals that a multinational corporation'...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the practice of performance management in a cross-border context in times of global uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper. Findings – The findings expose global uncertainty to be wielding a significant influence on performance management. Practical implications – A pra...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine one aspect of the implementation of the performance appraisal with a focus on its operation in an economic downturn and particularly a global economic crisis. Design/methodology/approach – It identifies the stated purposes of the performance appraisal in multinational corporations (MNCs) and explor...

This manuscript seeks to understand the effectiveness of the performance management process for a specific novel international manager, the inpatriate manager. The study investigates the effectiveness of inpatriate performance management at the headquarters of three British multinational corporations. Exploratory interviews with 24 inpatriates sugg...

Abstract This study focuses on a critical mechanism of the international human resource management process: performance management. The study specifically explores how the process of global performance management is perceived by the country managers of multinational corporations’ subsidiaries in Australia. The study reveals that: a multinational co...

A broad, dynamic network perspective on solution processes remains scarce. This article presents the process of developing and implementing customer solutions and its effects on the wider business environment by investigating customers and suppliers in the global mining industry (Australia, Chile, and Sweden), analyzing the deployment of a new cust...

A broad, dynamic network perspective on solution processes remains scarce. This article presents the process of developing and implementing customer solutions and its effects on the wider business environment by investigating customers and suppliers in the global mining industry (Australia, Chile, and Sweden), analyzing the deployment of a new cust...