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Social Capital Effects on the Career and Development Outcomes of HR Professionals (2015)
Journal Article
Gubbins, C., & Garavan, T. (2015). Social Capital Effects on the Career and Development Outcomes of HR Professionals. Human Resource Management, 55(2), 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21727

HR professionals’ roles require them to be responsive to both employee needs and top management strategies. However, the need to respond to the often competing employee and strategic agendas makes relationship-building efforts challenging. This study... Read More about Social Capital Effects on the Career and Development Outcomes of HR Professionals.

An examination of perioperative temperature fluctuations in canine patients undergoing routine neutering (2015)
Journal Article
Fraser, M., Beverly, F., & Wood, B. (2015). An examination of perioperative temperature fluctuations in canine patients undergoing routine neutering. Veterinary Nurse, 6(2), 124-128. https://doi.org/10.12968/vetn.2015.6.2.124

Objective: To examine the fluctuations in body temperature in dogs undergoing routine neutering both during surgery and in the recovery phase. Methods: Utilising a convenience sampling approach, body temperatures of 17 healthy male and female do... Read More about An examination of perioperative temperature fluctuations in canine patients undergoing routine neutering.

Human resource development in SMEs: a systematic review of the literature (2015)
Journal Article
Nolan, C. T., & Garavan, T. N. (2016). Human resource development in SMEs: a systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Management Reviews, 18, 85-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12062

Human Resource Development (HRD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a significant area of scholarship. However, the cumulativeness of research on HRD in SMEs remains relatively low when compared to HRD generally. This paper reports a sys... Read More about Human resource development in SMEs: a systematic review of the literature.

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD. European Journal of Training and Development, 38(5), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-04-2014-0034

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource development (HRD). Although issues of sustainability and CSR have become an important topic of rese... Read More about Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and HRD.

Interacting with assistance dogs and their owners (2014)
Journal Article
Fraser, M. (2014). Interacting with assistance dogs and their owners. Veterinary Record, 175(12), 292-292. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.g5780

A GUIDE dog and its owner have been helping veterinary nursing students at Edinburgh Napier University to gain experience of the practicalities of working with assistance dogs and their owners, both in practice and in everyday life.

Vet nursing students find out more about guide dogs. (2014)
Journal Article
Fraser, M. (2014). Vet nursing students find out more about guide dogs. Vet Times,

Veterinary nursing students at Edinburgh Napier University have been finding out about guide dogs and some of the problems visually impaired people face

An examination of current attitudes towards wildlife and disease transmission within the Scottish farming community (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fraser, M., Girling, S. J., & Innes, E. A. (2014). An examination of current attitudes towards wildlife and disease transmission within the Scottish farming community.

Agriculture and wildlife live together in our countryside and disease transmission occurs between them. For farmers this can represent an economical loss as well as animal welfare issues. The aim was to evaluate the views of farmers/smallholders in S... Read More about An examination of current attitudes towards wildlife and disease transmission within the Scottish farming community.

Advancing HRD theory: New theoretical perspectives and promoting methodological pluralism (2014)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Advancing HRD theory: New theoretical perspectives and promoting methodological pluralism. European Journal of Training and Development, 38(4), 262-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-03-2014-0028

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set the context for the five papers in this issue that propose new perspectives and/or address the current state of specific sub-fields within Human Resource Development (HRD). Design/methodology/approach –... Read More about Advancing HRD theory: New theoretical perspectives and promoting methodological pluralism.

The Organizational Context and Performance Implications of Human Capital Investment Variability (2014)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, M., Doty, D. H., & Garavan, T. (2014). The Organizational Context and Performance Implications of Human Capital Investment Variability. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 25(1), 87-113. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21182

In contrast to the traditional focus of HRD on human capital accumulations we examine the issue of variability in human capital investment. Drawing on Real Options Theory, we theorize that larger firms and firms that are faced with greater organizati... Read More about The Organizational Context and Performance Implications of Human Capital Investment Variability.

Innovation and human resource development (HRD) (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Innovation and human resource development (HRD). European Journal of Training and Development, 38(1/2), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2013-0128

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of human resource development (HRD) and innovation which has been under-researched despite the widespread recognition of the critical role of innovation for sustained national... Read More about Innovation and human resource development (HRD).

The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Did HRD Play a Role? (2014)
Journal Article
MacKenzie, C., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Did HRD Play a Role?. Advances in developing human resources, 16(1), 34-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422313508925

The Problem The Global Financial and Economic Crisis1 starting in 2007 and its resultant impact has called into question the contribution of Human Resource Development (HRD) strategies and practices to the crisis. With its primary focus on the develo... Read More about The Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Did HRD Play a Role?.

The use of Manager Self-Service (MSS) HR portals in MNCs: the influence of attitudinal, normative, behavioural and national cultural factors (2013)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., & O'Brien, F. (2013). The use of Manager Self-Service (MSS) HR portals in MNCs: the influence of attitudinal, normative, behavioural and national cultural factors. European Journal of International Management, 7(4), 393. https://doi.org/10

This study investigates the use of a mandatory MSS HR portal by managers in an MNC, based on self-report data (N = 499) on attitudes and behaviour and archival data on actual usage. Data on usage was extracted four months following the implementatio... Read More about The use of Manager Self-Service (MSS) HR portals in MNCs: the influence of attitudinal, normative, behavioural and national cultural factors.

Language choice as a potential source of Intercultural discord in English-Mandarin business encounters. (2013)
Journal Article
Fischer, M. (2013). Language choice as a potential source of Intercultural discord in English-Mandarin business encounters. China media research, 9, 45

Until recently Anglophone business research into the issues surrounding the costs of and barriers to internationalisation has focused on cultural barriers and their potential for conflict and misunderstanding. Most of this research assumes that, as E... Read More about Language choice as a potential source of Intercultural discord in English-Mandarin business encounters..