Employee Relations: Volume 32 Issue 3

Introducing employment relations in South Eastern Europe

Alexandros G. Psychogios, Leslie T. Szamosi, Geoffrey Wood

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the employment relations context in South Eastern Europe from a variety of capitalism perspectives. Particular attention is accorded to…

Evaluating the nature of undeclared work in South Eastern Europe

Colin C. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the nature of undeclared work in South East Europe and the rest of the European Union and in doing so, to evaluate critically…

Moldovan employment relations: “path dependency”?

Claudio Morrison, Richard Croucher

The paper aims to examine the theory that trade unions' functions in a transitional economy are characterised by “path dependency”.

A comparative analysis of employment practices among post‐communist and capitalist countries in South Eastern Europe

Sunil Sahadev, Mehmet Demirbag

This paper aims to explore the level of convergence in employment practices among firms in the post‐communist countries and capitalist countries in South Eastern Europe. Firms…

HRM in the Hungarian SME sector

Suzanne Richbell, László Szerb, Zsuzsanna Vitai

This paper aims to provide an original picture of a selection of human resource management (HRM) activities in the micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hungary and…

Human resource management under change in the Romanian civil service in an international context

Jozsef Poor, George Plesoianu

The purpose of this paper is to present a number of initiatives which have been spearheaded by the Romanian government in the field of HRM in the civil service. A more specific…

Restructuring the employment relationship in South Eastern Europe?: Total quality‐based changes on managers' careers and job security

Alexandros G. Psychogios

This paper aims to address the generic research question of how promising management practices such as total quality management (TQM) initiatives affect employee relations in…

Organisational culture in a transitional economy: A comparative study of Romania

Eugenia Câmpeanu‐Sonea, Anca Borza, Adrian Sonea, Cătălina Silvia Mitra

The purpose of this paper is to focus on organisational change in Romania at the beginning of the twenty‐first century. This research raises the question on how transition and the…