Employee Relations: Volume 37 Issue 1

Exploring the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and organizational justice in the Islamic Saudi Arabian context

Abdallah M Elamin, Hayfaa A. Tlaiss

Cross-cultural studies suggest that while organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and organizational justice have received considerable attention in Anglo-Saxon contexts, the…

Outsourcing and financial crisis: evidence from Icelandic service SMEs

Ingi Rúnar Edvardsson, Unnur Dilja Teitsdóttir

– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the application of outsourcing within Icelandic service companies in the wake of the banking collapse.

Rethinking the marginalisation thesis: An evaluation of the socio-spatial variations in undeclared work in the European Union

Colin C Williams, Ioana Alexandra Horodnic

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically the “marginalisation” thesis, which holds that marginalised populations disproportionately participate in undeclared work…

Variation in career and workplace attitudes by generation, gender, and culture differences in career perceptions in the United States and China

Xiang Yi, Barbara Ribbens, Linna Fu, Weibo Cheng

– The purpose of this paper is to compare and understand how age, gender and culture affect individual career and work-related attitudes in Chinese and American samples.

Unions’ response to corporate restructuring in Telefónica: locked into collective bargaining?

Óscar Rodríguez-Ruiz

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the restructuring approach followed by the highly profitable Telefónica in its 2011 redundancy plan, and explores unions’ response to…

Retaining professional workers: what makes them stay?

Christeen George

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate why professional workers actually remain in their organisations.

How being female impacts learning and career growth in advertising creative departments

Kasey Windels, Karen L. Mallia

In the male-dominant creative industries, do men and women have access to the same resources for career learning and development? The purpose of this paper is to examine women’s…

Getting a low-paid job in French and UK supermarkets: from walk-in to online application?

Geraldine Rieucau

The purpose of this paper is to compare the recruitment practices of the French and UK retail industry. It analyses the influence of specific business constraints, labour market…