Careers CAR

Dear colleagues,
the University of Verona (Italy) is hosting the annual Italian Workshop on Organization Studies titled "Desperately seeking performance in organization", on the 28th-29th May 2012. This conference continues a tradition of successful events aimed at cultivating a debate in organizational studies by calling for original, unpublished research and research-in-progress papers.

We are pleased invite you to submit a paper to the track:
Human Resource Management and Performance: a matter of people, processes and strategy

In this track we address the issues related to the link between HRM and performance, both at different levels of analysis (individual, process, organization) and cross-levels , welcoming papers that enhance the dialogue into this relationship from a theoretical, empirical and/or methodological perspective. Especially we welcome papers open to multiple paradigms of the HRM research including what has been mainstream empirical work. However, the track emphasizes an agenda to challenge traditional thinking in the field of "HRM – firm performance" theories, and encourage contributions that develop new conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches.
All the papers will undergo a double blind review process.

Key dates
Papers submission deadline: February 15, 2012
Acceptance notification to authors: March 31, 2012
Conference sessions: May 28-29, 2012

For more information on the conference, please visit the official website of the conference:
www.woa2012.it/

For more information on the track, please have a look at:
http://www.woa2012.it/track.html#track18

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

The track chairs
Martina Gianecchini, University of Padova
Rita Bissola, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Milano
Tanya Bondarouk, University of Twente