Celia Martín-Sierra

Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes | UEMC · Departamento de Ciencias Sociales

This study explores the potential of the home to generate happiness in parallel with the business environment. Both theoretical and empirical approaches articulate this paper. We review happiness types and household dimensions and their correspondence with human resource (HR) retention practices. The potential of each HR practice to generate each h...

In this paper, an agent-based model of bounded-rational agents, who adapt both their effort intensity (by the interaction with other employees) and their stay-on-the-job-intention (by the alignment of their personal values with the Human-Resource Management (HRM) practices implemented by the organisation), is proposed. Our aim is toanalyse: (i) the...

This paper considers the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and knowledge management (KM). Specifically, it examines how the human resource (HR) practices that are expected to impact on employees’ abilities, motivation, and opportunity to engage in KM, do so by enabling knowledge sharing, knowledge maintaining, and knowledge creat...

En este estudio, desarrollamos y contrastamos el papel de la gestión de recursos humanos en las organizaciones ambidextras, para lo cual se considera el papel mediador del contexto y de los comportamientos ambidextros de los empleados. La información obtenida sobre una muestra de 50 empresas de Castilla y León permite comprobar que determinadas prá...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool, that is they can enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities for effective teamwork. We have carried out an analysis of the effect of business simulation on the teamwork KSA with a group of undergraduates of the Business S...

Utilizando información obtenida de 105 pequeñas organizaciones sin fines de lucro españolas que, en el año 2007, se dedicaban a la prestación de servicios a personas con discapacidad, analizamos como el diseño organizativo –en concreto, la delegación y los sistemas de recompensas extrínsecas e intrínsecas- influyen sobre la transmisión de conocimie...

We use data obtained from managers of 105 small nonprofit organizations (NPOs) providing services to people with disabilities in Spain in 2007 to examine how organizational design—particularly, extrinsic and intrinsic reward systems—impacts delegation, motivation, and knowledge transfer to achieve the NPO’s goal to improve the lives of persons livi...

The growing importance of teamwork in the business world has obliged both companies as well as higher educational centers (universities, business schools, etc.) to invest in a type of training specialized in team work. In particular, it deals with the teaching of certain knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) which allows the work teams to be more...

This paper contributes to the debate of the role of human resource management (HRM) in managing organizational knowledge by focusing on the human resource management practices that contribute to knowledge sharing and knowledge creation within organizations. Drawing upon HRM theory and knowledge management (KM) theory, the study proposes a conceptua...

Este trabajo profundiza en el papel que juega la gestión de recursos humanos (GRH) en la gestión del conocimiento (GC), centrándose en las prácticas de gestión de los recursos humanos que pueden favorecer la transferencia de conocimiento y la creación del mismo. En particular, se propone un modelo conceptual que relaciona las prácticas de recursos...

La importancia creciente del trabajo en equipo en el mundo empresarial, superando el individual predominante hasta hace relativamente pocos años, ha obligado tanto a las empresas como a los centros de enseñanza superior, invertir en un tipo de formación especializada en el trabajo en equipo. En particular, se trata de enseñar ciertos conocimientos,...

In this paper, our objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic management simulations as a learning-by-doing tool so that university students can learn to work in a team, that is they can enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities – KSA for effective teamwork. For the first time, we have carried out an analysis of the effect of strat...

The growing importance of teamwork in the business world has obliged both companies as well as higher educational centers (universities, business schools, etc.) to invest in a type of training specialized in team work. In particular, it deals with the teaching of certain knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) which allows the work teams to be more...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es evaluar la eficacia de la simulación empresarial, como técnica de aprendizaje experimental, para que los alumnos aprendan a trabajar en equipo, esto es, para que puedan mejorar sus conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas (CHD) para lograr un trabajo en equipo eficaz. Para ello, hemos analizado el efecto de la simu...