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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

 

Thematic Issue on:

"Employer Duty of Care – The Role of HRM in Managing Talent in Dangerous Locations"

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: 1 FEBRUARY 2015


Guest Editors

Lisbeth Claus, Willamette University, USA

and

Yvonne McNulty, Singapore Institute of Management University, Singapore

 

This thematic issue will focus on duty of care or the obligation of employers to protect the health, safety, security and well-being of employees (see here for the link to EJIM: http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2237).

 

As a result of globalisation, organisations (whether for-profit, non-profit or governmental) have talent deployed all over the world as locals, international assignees or business travellers. This exposes the workforce to greater environmental risks that need to be mitigated and managed.

 

So far, contributions to the field of ‘employer duty of care’ have come mainly from outside of HR. With this issue, our intention is to integrate the various interdisciplinary contributions on this topic with the broader fields of talent management and global mobility.

 

Papers in this issue will cover the whole spectrum of duty of care issues as outlined below. We welcome conceptual, empirical (quantitative and qualitative) and case study research. 

 

Subject Coverage

 

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

  Employer duty of care from cultural and legal perspectives

  Managing employee risk and uncertainty globally (employee safety, security, political and medical risks)

  Deploying staff to emerging economies, war zones, disaster areas, and bottom 60 countries

  Duty of care in international NGOs and government organisations

  Duty of care in contract work and international joint ventures

  Evacuation of international assignees and dependents

  Challenges of managing duty of care for international business travellers

  Employee duty of loyalty and engagement with organisational duty of care initiatives

  Moral and ethical duty of care obligations

  Sustainability and duty of care

  Cost-benefit analysis and ROI of organisational duty of care initiatives 

  Notes for Prospective Authors

 

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

 

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

 

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our information on preparing and submitting articles.

 

For any queries about this thematic issue, please contact the Guest Editors directly:

Lisbeth Claus: [log in to unmask]

Yvonne McNulty: [log in to unmask]

 

Important Dates

 

Submission of manuscripts: 1 February 2015 1 October, 2014

 

Notification to authors: 15 May, 2015

 

Final versions due: 1 July, 2015

 

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