Employee Relations: Volume 32 Issue 4

Establishing trade unions within foreign companies in China

Wu Qingjun

This article aims to study unionisation of foreign companies in China and to evaluate its effectiveness on representing labour rights and interests, so as to explore the…

Stereotyping of citizens in an expatriate‐dominated labour market: Implications for workforce localisation policy

Mohammed Al‐Waqfi, Ingo Forstenlechner

Even though initiatives to increase the participation of citizens in the workforce have been in place for more than a decade in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the results are not…

Can employee share‐ownership improve employee attitudes and behaviour?

Dermot McCarthy, Eoin Reeves, Tom Turner

The purpose of this article is to examine the outcomes of a substantial broad‐based employee share‐ownership scheme for employee attitudes and behaviour in a privatised firm.

Affective and continuance commitment in public private partnership

Catherine L. Wang, Thor Indridason, Mark N.K. Saunders

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the “transfer” process on relationships between employees' perceived organisational support and affective and continuance…

Direct participation quality and organisational commitment: the role of leader‐member exchange

Nicole Torka, Birgit Schyns, Jan Kees Looise

The relationship between participation quality and commitment has received relatively limited attention in the industrial relations (IR) and human resource management (HRM…

The utility of operationalising the concept of skill ecosystems: The case of intermediate occupations in Scotland

Pauline Anderson

The primary purpose of this paper is to highlight the utility of operationalising the concept of skill ecosystems, or more accurately “intermediate occupational skill ecosystems”.