Employee Relations: Volume 37 Issue 3

Attractiveness of non-financial rewards for prospective knowledge workers: An experimental investigation

Anton Schlechter, Nicola Claire Thompson, Mark Bussin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the presence of non-financial rewards (specifically work-life balance, learning, and career advancement) were able to influence the…

Why do firms adopt employee share ownership? Bundling ESO and direct involvement for developing human capital investments

Loris Guery

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between employee share ownership (ESO) and employer-provided training. To be more specific, as both ESO and involvement…

Young and unionised in the UK? Insights from the public sector

Andy Hodder

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between trade unions and young workers in the UK using the Young Members’ Network of the Public and Commercial Services…

Transformational leadership and organisational performance: Three serially mediating mechanisms

Anastasia A. Katou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the serially mediating mechanisms of organisational justice, organisational trust, and employee reactions in the relationship between…

Developing individual and organisational work-life balance strategies to improve employee health and wellbeing

Connie Zheng, John Molineux, Soheila Mirshekary, Simona Scarparo

Work-life balance (WLB) is an issue of focus for organisations and individuals because individuals benefit from having better health and wellbeing when they have WLB and this, in…

The fun paradox

Barbara Plester, Helena Cooper-Thomas, Joanne Winquist

Fun means different things to different people and the purpose of this paper is to attempt to answer the question “what is fun at work?”. Given that perceptions of fun differ…