Global human resource management : bridging strategic and institutional perspectives / Rosemary Batt, Michel Hermans -- Designing executive risk-taking : an agenda for improving executive outcomes through work design / James K. Summers, Timothy P. Munyon, Annette L. Ranft, Gerald R. Ferris, M. Ronald Buckley -- Orientation programs that may facilitate newcomer adjustment : a literature review and future research agenda / Jinyan Fan, M. Ronald Buckley, Robert C. Litchfield -- A review of recent advances in item response theory / Michael J. Zickar -- The impact of leadership, management, and HRM on employee reactions to organizational change / Mel Fugate -- Off-the-job embeddedness : a reconceptualization and agenda for future research / Daniel C. Feldman, Thomas W.H. Ng, Ryan M. Vogel.

This series publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. Volume 31 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM) contains six papers on important issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of the field. This collection of papers represents excellent scholarship and illustrates the truly interdisciplinary character of the field.