Employee Relations: Volume 30 Issue 3

Getting members on board: democratic issues in union merger negotiations

Stephan Baraldi, Magnus Sverke, Gary Chaison

The purpose of this paper is to examine a failed union merger attempt from a democratic perspective. Although it is estimated that a majority of planned union mergers are never…

Exploring the differential impact of job satisfaction on employee attendance and conduct: The case of a utility company in the United Arab Emirates

Rachid Zeffane, Mohamed E. Ibrahim, Rashid Al Mehairi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of job satisfaction on employee attendance and conduct.

Targets, strategies, and topics of deception among part‐time workers

Holly J. Payne

The purpose of this paper is to identify the targets, strategies, and topics of deception employed in the workplace among part‐time service workers.

The cross‐cultural adjustment experiences of self‐initiated repatriates to the Republic of Ireland labour market

Annette Begley, David G. Collings, Hugh Scullion

The purpose of this paper is to examine the self‐initiated repatriation experience of native professionals as they return to the labour market in the Republic of Ireland of their…

Service delivery reform within the Canadian public sector 1990‐2002

Janice Foley

The purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent service delivery in the Canadian federal government actually improved after a decade of reform efforts, and how employee…

Senior managers' perceptions of the practice of human resource management

Gillian Maxwell, Lois Farquharson

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the perceptions of senior managers in companies in the Sunday Times list of UK best employers on the practice of HRM in their…

Special issue on HRM in Latin America