Employee Relations: Volume 27 Issue 4

Can Japanese mentoring enhance understanding of Western mentoring?

Mark Iain Bright

Aims to illustrate how Japan possesses cultural characteristics to support mentoring as a relationship, as opposed to the West, whose favoured approach is to view mentoring as a…

Small unions and mergers: evidence from two case studies

Gerry Palmer, Jeff Parry, Mike Webb

Seeks to investigate decisions by small unions to engage in “transfers of engagement” whereby they are in effect “absorbed” by a larger union.

Employee perceptions of empowerment

Kay Greasley, Alan Bryman, Andrew Dainty, Andrew Price, Robby Soetanto, Nicola King

This study aims to examine how empowerment is perceived by individuals employed on construction projects. In contrast with previous research which has predominantly been conducted…

Human resource management practice and institutional constraints The case of Mozambique

Edward Webster, Geoffrey Wood

This article aims to explore the nature of contemporary HRM practice in Mozambique, and the extent to which “best practice” HRM strategies are likely to emerge, given present…

Ten years of European works councils in Ireland: testing the regulatory capacity of soft‐style EU directives

Emer O’Hagan

The European Works Council (EWC) Directive reflects a shift to a softer style of governance which has been adopted by the EU in recent years. This article sets out to explore how…

Effects of HRM on client satisfaction in nursing and care for the elderly

Marlies Ott, Han van Dijk

HRM is supposed to increase job satisfaction. But does it also increase client satisfaction? Sets out to discuss this issue.

Gender differences in policing: signs of progress?

Ronald J. Burke, Aslaug Mikkelsen

This exploratory study aims to compare job demands, work outcomes, social and coping resources and indicators of psychological and physical health of male and female police…