Employee Relations: Volume 36 Issue 6

Determinants of innovative behavior of employees: evidence from Spanish firms

M. Teresa Ortega-Egea, Antonia Ruiz Moreno, M. Carmen Haro Domínguez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the presence of communication and knowledge flows influences the creation of a work context that supports innovation, and how this…

The psychological impact of agency worker utilisation

Simon Toms, David Biggs

Agency work represents a unique form of employment that has received increased attention in recent years. Supporters of the agency employment industry have cited increased…

Time affluence, material affluence and work experiences of professional women in Russia

Ronald J. Burke, Marina Astakhova, Parbudyal Singh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of time affluence (TA) and material affluence (MA) in work and extra-work experiences of a sample of professional women working in…

Defined benefit pension decline: the consequences for organizations and employees

Ebony de Thierry, Helen Lam, Mark Harcourt, Matt Flynn, Geoff Wood

The purpose of this paper is to use the theoretical and empirical pension literatures to question whether employers are likely to gain any competitive advantage from degrading or…

Inter-firm job mobility and occupational transitions in Spain: are they related?

Antonio Caparrós Ruiz

The purpose of this paper is to shed knowledge about the relationship between the inter-firm job mobility and the occupational transitions in Spain during the last years. In…

High performance work systems, cultures and gender demography

Shaun Pichler, Arup Varma, Andrew Yu, Gerard Beenen, Shahin Davoudpour

The purpose of this paper is to develop and test hypotheses about the independent relationships between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and high-performance work cultures…

The double psychological contracts of temporary agency workers

Manuela Morf, Alexandra Arnold, Bruno Staffelbach

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how temporary agency workers’ job attitudes are influenced by the fulfilment of the psychological contract; a set of employees’…