Personnel Review: Volume 45 Issue 1

Exploring employees’ responses to unmet job expectations: The moderating role of future job expectations and efficacy beliefs

Ceyda Maden, Hakan Ozcelik, Gaye Karacay

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the moderating roles of future job expectations and efficacy beliefs in employees’ responses to unmet job expectations, i.e. emotional…

Perceptions of time at work: Why the clock ticks differently for men and women when they are not working at work

Aristides Isidoro Ferreira, Joana Diniz Esteves

Activities such as making personal phone calls, surfing on the internet, booking personal appointments or chatting with colleagues may or may not deviate attentions from work…

Tribe and village in African organizations and business

Simon Ulrik Kragh

The purpose of this paper is to show that organizational behaviour and business relations in African countries reflect preindustrial social norms typical of kinship based, rural…

Publishing personal information online: How employers’ access, observe and utilise social networking sites within selection procedures

Janneke Hoek, Paula O'Kane, Martin McCracken

– The purpose of this paper is to examine employers’ use of social networking sites (SNSs) within employee selection.

Employer’s investments in hospital workers’ employability and employment opportunities

Jasmijn van Harten, Eva Knies, Peter Leisink

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between employer’s investments (through job characteristics and managerial support) and employees’ employment…

Does a balanced gender ratio improve performance? The case of Spanish banks (1999-2010)

Óscar Rodríguez-Ruiz, Antonio Rodríguez-Duarte, Luis Gómez-Martínez

The purpose of this paper is to identify the dynamics of the gender diversity-to-performance relationship in the Spanish banking sector in the period 1999-2010. Specifically the…

The effect of management and employee perspectives of high-performance work systems on employees’ discretionary behaviour

Unai Elorza, Christopher Harris, Aitor Aritzeta, Nekane Balluerka

The purpose of this paper is to understand how management and employee perspectives of high-performance work systems (HPWS) relate to employee discretionary behaviour. In…

Dissemination of talent management in Germany: myth, facade or economic necessity?

Denise Ewerlin, Stefan Süß

Although talent management is increasingly being discussed by academics and practitioners, there are very few empirical studies to date concerning its dissemination and…

Factors influencing job performance of nursing staff: Mediating role of affective commitment

Jyoti Sharma, Rajib Lochan Dhar

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence the affective commitment of nursing staff and its subsequent impact on their job performance.

Job satisfaction: how crucial is participative decision making?

Gail Pacheco, Don Webber

– The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the role of perceived ability to participate in decision making in the workplace, with respect to job satisfaction.

“Voice and Involvement at Work” including six lessons learned from “Experience with Non-Union Representation”

Michael Knoll

For Ethnography

Robert Wapshott

List of reviewers

Personnel Review: new paths, future directions

Nelarine Cornelius, Eric Pezet