Employee Relations: Volume 26 Issue 2

Work motivation and job satisfaction in the Nordic countries

Jacob K. Eskildsen, Kai Kristensen, Anders H. Westlund

This paper studies differences in job satisfaction and intrinsic work motivation between employees with different characteristics. Based on a study of the literature assumptions…

Attitudes towards pay and promotion in the Malaysian higher educational sector

David Morris, Arzmi Yaacob, Geoff Wood

The article, based on an extensive survey of employees within a Malaysian tertiary educational institution, explores employee attitudes and perceptions towards existing pay and…

Mandatory retirement age and age discrimination

Malcolm Sargeant

This article considers the issues raised by the proposed abolition of the mandatory retirement age as a result of the Equal Treatment Directive, 2000/78/EC, and of proposed Age…

New rights for old: Flexi‐working and sex discrimination

Melanie Fraser

Employees have a statutory right to request a change to their working hours or conditions to enable them to care for children (so long as they meet certain criteria). The Sex…

Minority report: Taking the initiative in managing diversity at BBC Scotland

Gillian A. Maxwell

Academic interest in managing diversity is now developing from conceptual analyses to practical examples. However, the conceptual relationship between managing diversity and equal…

New employee representation: Legal developments and New Zealand unions

Michael Barry, Robyn May

Legislative protections supporting New Zealand's compulsory arbitration system made unions a vital part of industrial relations from 1894 to 1991. Following a dramatic shift to a…