All Outputs (8)

Meeting employer's skills upgrading needs through vocational education and training provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland. (2007)
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Greig, M., Hollywood, E., Lindsay, C., Thomson, E., Devins, D., …McCracken, M. G. (2007). Meeting employer's skills upgrading needs through vocational education and training provision in Scotland and Northern Ireland

The importance of training in operationalising HR policy (2005)
Journal Article
McCracken, M., Bond, S., & McCracken, M. G. (2005). The importance of training in operationalising HR policy. Journal of European industrial training, 29(3), 246-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090590510591111

To understand how line managers make decisions about employee requests for time off at short notice and to consider the consequences for management training. Design/methodology/approach- Based on evidence from case studies carried out in four financi... Read More about The importance of training in operationalising HR policy.

Operationalising HR policy: line managers' use of discretion. (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Bond, S., & McCracken, M. G. (2003). Operationalising HR policy: line managers' use of discretion.

Unemployment duration and employability in remote rural labour markets (2003)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., McCracken, M. G., & McQuaid, R. W. (2003). Unemployment duration and employability in remote rural labour markets. Journal of Rural Studies, 19(2), 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-0167%2802%2900067-0

This paper analyses the barriers to work faced by long- and short-term unemployed people in remote rural labour markets. Applying a broad concept of 'employability' as an analytical framework, it considers the attributes and experiences of 190 job se... Read More about Unemployment duration and employability in remote rural labour markets.

Alternative job search strategies in remote rural labour markets: the role if ICT. (2003)
Conference Proceeding
McQuaid, R. W., Lindsay, C., & McCracken, M. G. (2003). Alternative job search strategies in remote rural labour markets: the role if ICT.

Barriers to participation in learning for mid-career managers in the Scottish life assurance industry. (2002)
Thesis
McCracken, M. G. Barriers to participation in learning for mid-career managers in the Scottish life assurance industry. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2547

The Life Assurance industry has been through a period of rapid change as a consequence of increased competition, which is resulting in the need for structural re-organisation. The mid-career manager is arguably the most affected by these changes as... Read More about Barriers to participation in learning for mid-career managers in the Scottish life assurance industry..

Towards an employability policy agenda for remote rural labour markets (2001)
Conference Proceeding
Lindsay, C., McCracken, M. G., & McQuaid, R. W. (2001). Towards an employability policy agenda for remote rural labour markets.

This paper presents an analysis of the barriers to work faced by unemployed people in remote rural labour markets, and compares the experiences of the ‘long-term unemployed’ and more recent job seekers in two such areas in Northern Scotland (namely t... Read More about Towards an employability policy agenda for remote rural labour markets.

Future skill needs of managers (2000)
Working Paper
Winterton, J., Parker, M., Dodd, M., McCracken, M. G., & Henderson, I. Future skill needs of managers

The main aim of the study was to identify and evaluate the nature of changes affecting managers and issues that will influence the effective future provision of management development in the UK. The report focuses on the nature of the skills that man... Read More about Future skill needs of managers.