The Research Center on HRM

The objective of the center is to gather hard evidence about HRM policies and practices across countries and to track their development over time. The network offers academics, practitioners, local governments, and local and international institutions expert and informed research, as well as guidance on international and comparative HRM practices.

Faculty

Core research faculty members

Freyr Halldórsson, PhD and associate professor.
Katrín Ólafsdóttir, PhD and associate professor.
Þóra Þorgeirsdóttir, PhD, and assistant professor.

Various HR-related research topics

While participating in the CRANET network is a large part of the Center‘s operation, the associated research faculty at Reykjavík University has conducted various other research studies in the area of human resource management. The three core faculty members are working on several other related or expanded collaborative research projects. These include studies on the impact of the economic collapse in Iceland in 2008, HR related downsizing methods, HR maturity stages, employee attitudes and behaviors, work and family life balance and gender issues.

Dissemination

The Center‘s dissemination of publications is both academic and practitioner-oriented. The research has been disseminated through published reports, reviewed articles, presentations at academic conferences and via lectures for students, articles and presentations at more practitioner-oriented platforms (journals, newspapers, radio and television, conferences and seminars) as well as through direct written summaries and reports provided to HR professionals in private and public organizations in Iceland.

Various Publications

Olafsdottir, K. & Einarsdottir, A (2016). Men and women should work together – Not apart. 8th International Conference – An Enterprize Odyssey: Saving the Sinking Ship Through Human Capital. Zagreb, Croatia, June 8-11, 2016.
Einarsdottir, A., Olafsdottir, K., Bjarnadottir, A. (2015). HRM Status and development in Iceland: The CRANET research 2015 (report). Reykjavík: Reykjavík University.

Einarsdottir, A., Olafsdottir, K. & Lazarova, M. (2015). Three types of layoffs and their long term impact on employee perceptions, attitudes and behavior. (AOM), 75th Annual meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 7-11, 2015.
Olafsdottir, K. & Einarsdottir, A. (2014). From recession to growth: Recovery in the labor market, EAEPE, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, 25th Annual Conference, Beyond (De)Industrialisation: The future of industries?, Paris, France, November 7, 2013.
Olafsdottir, K. and Einarsdottir, A. (2013). From recession to growth: Recovery in the labor market, a talk given at a brownbag lunch workshop, Aarhus University, March 15, 2013.
Olafsdottir, K and Einardottir, A. (2013) From recession to growth: Recovery in the labor market, International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation (IWPLMS), 34th Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 12.-14. september 2013.
Einarsdóttir, A. and Olafsdóttir, K., (2013). From Recession to Recovery - Implementation of Alternative Downsizing Methods in Public and Private Organizations. The Global Conference on International Human Resource Management at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, USA on 9-10 May 2013.
Arney Einarsdottir, Asta Bjarnadottir, Katrin Olafsdottir og Anna K. Georgsdottir (2012). Staða og þróun mannauðsstjórnunar á Íslandi: CRANET rannsóknin 2012 (Report in Icelandic). (HR status and development in Iceland) Reykjavík: Reykjavík University.
Morgunverðarfundur 18. október 2012: Úr kreppu í vöxt: Viðsnúningur á vinnumarkaði (e. From recession to growth: Recovery in the labor market). Frumniðurstöður rannsóknar á samdrætti og viðsnúningi kynntar á opnum fundi.
Einarsdóttir, A., Ólafsdóttir, K., and Arnardóttir, A.A. (2011). Frá mjúkum yfir í harðar samdráttaraðgerðir: Sveigjanleiki fyrirtækja og stofnana í kjölfar hruns. (From soft to hard downsizing methods: Organizational flexibility following the crisis. Tímarit um stjórnmál og stjórnsýslu, 2, 327-346. (in Icelandic).
Einarsdóttir, A., Ólafsdóttir, K. and Arnardóttir, A.A. (2011). Downsizing methods in a recession: The public and private sector‘s flexibility. The International Workshop Crises, Institutions and Labour Market Performance: Comparing Evidence and Policies, University of Perugia, Italy.
Einarsdottir, A., Olafsdottir, K. and Arnardottir, A. A. (2011). HR related downsizing methods in a recession: The public and private sectors flexibility. EAISM, symposia proceedings, Reykjavík, May 2011.
Katrín Ólafsdóttir. (2011). Íslenska lífeyriskerfið og íslenskur þjóðarbúskapur. Í Hrafn Bragason, Héðinn Eyjólfsson og Guðmundur Heiðar Frímannsson (ritstj.) Úttekt á fjárfestingarstefnu, ákvarðanatöku og lagalegu umhverfi lífeyrissjóðanna í aðdraganda bankahrunsins 2008. Reykjavík: Úttektarnefnd Landssamtaka Lífeyrissjóða.
Katrín Ólafsdóttir. (2009). Gender effects of the economic crisis. Í Ingjaldur Hannibalsson (ritstj.), Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum X, 343-352. Háskóli Íslands: Félagsvísindastofnun.
Katrín Ólafsdóttir. (2008). Er íslenskur vinnumarkaður sveigjanlegur? Háskólinn í Reykjavík: Viðskiptadeild.