Personnel Review: Volume 40 Issue 1

High commitment performance management: the roles of justice and trust

Elaine Farndale, Veronica Hope‐Hailey, Clare Kelliher

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between employees' perceptions of a particular subsystem of HRM practices (performance management) and their commitment to…

Executive coaching in practice: what determines helpfulness for clients of coaching?

Erik de Haan, Vicki Culpin, Judy Curd

Executive coaching is gaining in popularity, both as part of personal or organisational development programmes and as a tailored form of individual consulting. The purpose of this…

Perceptions of the presence and effectiveness of high involvement work systems and their relationship to employee attitudes: A test of competing models

Morris B. Mendelson, Nick Turner, Julian Barling

Prior research has demonstrated the positive effects of high involvement work systems on various outcomes but none to date has conducted a comparative test of alternative…

Working time alterations within the Australian construction industry

Keith Townsend, Helen Lingard, Lisa Bradley, Kerry Brown

The purpose of this paper is to provide a labour process theory interpretation of four case studies within the Australian construction industry. In each case study a working time…

Individual performance appraisal and appraisee reactions to workgroups: The mediating role of goal interdependence and the moderating role of procedural justice

Tingting Chen, Peiguan Wu, Kwok Leung

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of individual performance appraisal with appraisees' reactions towards their workgroups and the mechanisms underlying…

Justice and trust as antecedents of careerist orientation

Jonathan Crawshaw, Felix Brodbeck

This paper aims to explore the antecedents of careerist orientations to work. Hypotheses are drawn from referent cognitions theory. First, it is proposed that trust mediates the…

Determinants of job satisfaction in the UAE: A case study of the Dubai police

Jassem Abdulla, Ramdane Djebarni, Kamel Mellahi

The aim of this study is to identify the factors affecting job satisfaction in the UAE. Specifically, the study seeks to examine the relative effects of demographic and…

The Changing Face of People Management in India

Mohan Thite

Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options over the Career

John Blenkinsopp

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh