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This study tests the effect of age diversity on firm performance among international firms. Based on the resource-based view of the firm, it argues that age diversity among employees will influence firm performance. Moreover, it argues that two contextual variables-a firm's level of market diversification and its country of origin-influence the relationship between age diversity and firm performance. By testing relevant hypotheses in a major emerging economy, that is, the People's Republic of China, this study finds a significant and positive effect of age diversity and a significant interactive effect between age diversity and firm strategy on profitability. We also find a significant relationship between age diversity and firm profitability for firms from Western societies, but not for firms from East Asian societies. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of this study's findings. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on a study which investigates the reliability and validity of selfadministered Chinese Shortness of Breath Questionnaire (SOBQ) with pictorial enhancement(C-SOBQ), an instrument for assessing the impact of dyspnoea on daily activities of patients with different lung diseases. The study focuses on the patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to check the reliability of the instrument to enhance the clinical application of the instrument.

This study tests the relationship between what we call a firm's globalness and its commitment to human resource management in its host countries. It is argued that the globalness of firms is positively influenced by their commitment to - or investment in - human resource management in their host countries. Data were collected from a list of the World's Most Admired Companies ranked by Fortune magazine (2003-2006). The results from data analyses suggest that the human resource management of multinational corporations in their host countries does indeed influence their globalness ranking. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for practitioners and academic researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]