Globalization and related technological developments have increased competition and put organizations in a struggle to survive in an extremely difficult market condition. Organizations adopt their technologies and infrastructures to today’s conditions to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and maintain their existence. However, all these efforts of organizations are easily imitated by rival companies and may cause the loss of competitive advantage.

The resource-based view provides additional information that strategic human resource is the scarce, valuable, inimitable and non-substitutable resources of organizations, thus enabling them to gain a competitive advantage. According to this view, the competitive advantage of the organization is achieved by combining valuable internal resources. Nowadays, sustainable competitive advantage is provided not by environmental factors or physical capital but by human capital (employees) efficiency. In this context, the attitudes and behaviors of employees who make up human resources are important for their organizational success. Many studies emphasize that positive attitudes and behaviors (e.g. innovative work behavior, work engagement, job satisfaction) in employees have important contributions to the success of the organization, while similarly negative attitudes and behaviors (e.g. organizational silence, turnover intention) are one of the main reasons for the failure of the organization.

In our book, literature has been created on the definition, antecedents, and organizational results of new and current concepts that are newly conceptualized in the literature and are still in their infancy. It is considered that this cumulative literature within the book will be a source for future studies on these subjects and will provide important insights for practitioners.

Dünya üzerindeki ülkeler ve politika yapıcılar bazı dönemlerde çeşitli krizlerle karşı karşıya kalmaktadırlar. Bu krizler bazen yerel veya bölgesel çapta etkili olurken bazen de küresel boyutta bir yayılmayla birlikte; gelişmiş, gelişmekte olan veya gelişmemiş tüm ülkeleri etkisi altına alabilmektedirler. Bazen bu krizler, alınan birtakım tedbirlerle birlikte kısa süre içerisinde çözüme kavuşturulabilirken, bazen de uygulanmaya çalışılan tüm seçeneklere rağmen kısa süre de çözüme kavuşturulamamakta ve buna bağlı olarak da müzmin bir hal almaktadırlar. Karşılaşılan sorunların benzer ve ortak nitelikler taşıması, bazı ülkelerin sorunların çözümüne yönelik en iyi örnek uygulamaları sunması da, diğer ülkelerin bu uygulamaları incelemesi ve “taklit” veya “öykünmeden”, “ders çıkarmaya” kadar uzanan bir yelpazede faydalanmalarına olanak sağlamıştır. Politika transferi ve ilişkili olan diğer kavramlar işte tam da bu noktada ortaya çıkmaktadırlar…