http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6165 This paper is based upon a survey carried out for the UK Heads of Department group, CHOBE (Council of Heads of Built Environment Departments). Its membership represents approximately 45 departments in the UK that offer programmes in construction, property and surveying. The survey was aimed at finding out the perceptions of these heads of department on a range of topics that influence the resourcing of these departments. The survey asked questions about staffing, students, curricula, research, accreditation and assessment. Respondents were also asked to identify the three most important issues facing these disciplines at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It was not surprising that recruitment and retention of appropriately skilled and knowledgeable staff were identified as the most common and important issues facing these disciplines. This was followed closely by links with industry and industry engagement. Whilst there were some differences in opinion expressed between those departments that are research-led compared with those that concentrate more on the delivery of programmes, such differences were not in some cases distinctive. 2013-03-11T00:41:10.277Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:9140 Studies of flows of parent country nationals of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to subsidiary operations has a relatively long tradition. However the study of flows of subsidiary employees to other subsidiaries, as third country nationals, and to the corporate headquarters, as inpatriates, has, empirically, much less pedigree. Drawing on a large scale empirical study of MNEs in Ireland, this paper provides a benchmark of outward staffing flows from the Irish subsidiaries of foreign owned MNEs to both the corporate headquarters and other worldwide operations. Building insights from the resource based view, we develop and test a theoretical model to explain outward staffing flows. The results show that almost half of all MNEs utilise some form of outward staffing flows from the Irish operations. Although the impact of specific variables in explaining interorganization variation differs between the utilisation of inpatriate and third country national assignments, overall we find that a number of headquarter, subsidiary, structural and human resources systems factors emerge as strong predictors of outward staffing flows. 2011-10-11T00:10:03.617Z ]]>