Employee Relations: Volume 38 Issue 4

This is not what I wanted: The effect of avoidance coping strategy on non-work-related social media use at the workplace

Jhony Choon Yeong Ng, Iris Yu Ting Shao, Yiping Liu

Many fresh graduates have unrealistic career expectations. When reality sets in after graduation, they may be disappointed. Due to factors such as the limited availability of…

Flexibility of benefit systems and firms’ attraction and retention capacities

M. Dolores Vidal-Salazar , Eulogio Cordón-Pozo, José M. de la Torre-Ruiz

The purpose of this paper is to analyze three different forms of benefit systems and the effects of their application on Spanish firms’ attraction and retention capacity…

What determines the work values of employees in a Middle Eastern cultural context? Evidences from Jordanian organizations

Khaled Aladwan, Ramudu Bhanugopan, Alan Fish

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of work values in Jordan; as well as to demonstrate empirically, the nature of work values.

Third-sector job quality: evidence from Finland

Petri Ruuskanen, Kirsikka Selander, Timo Anttila

The purpose of this paper is to study the perceived job quality and job satisfaction among third-sector employees and compare job quality in the third, public and private sector…

Exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect reactions to frequency of change, and impact of change: A sensemaking perspective through the lens of psychological contract

Muhammad Naseer Akhtar, Matthijs Bal, Lirong Long

The purpose of this paper is to examine how frequency of change (FC) in organizations and impact of change (IC) influence the employee behaviors, i.e. exit, voice, loyalty, and…

Employee voice and silence in auditing firms

Sean Donovan, Michelle O'Sullivan, Elaine Doyle, John Garvey

The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory study of employee voice and silence in international auditing firms. The authors examine two key questions: what is the…

The link between high performance work practices and organizational performance: Empirically validating the conceptualization of HPWP according to the AMO model

Shatha M. Obeidat, Rebecca Mitchell, Mark Bray

The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between high-performance work practices (HPWP) and organizational performance through a multi-dimensional model…

Influence of organizational rewards on organizational commitment and turnover intentions

Sajjad Nazir, Amina Shafi, Wang Qun, Nadia Nazir, Quang Dung Tran

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between extrinsic, intrinsic and social rewards and two components of organizational commitment and finally Chinese…

Disentangling the relationship between high-involvement-work-systems and job satisfaction

Andrea Ollo-López, Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Martin Larraza-Kintana

– The purpose of this paper is to study how high-involvement work systems (HIWS) affect job satisfaction, and tries to disentangle the mechanisms through which the effect occurs.