Employee Relations: Volume 39 Issue 4

Talent retention: evidence from a multinational firm in France

Hayfaa A. Tlaiss, Pascal Martin, Mahrane Hofaidhllaoui

While multinational corporations appear to understand the importance of talent retention (TR) for maintaining their competitive advantage, they continue to struggle to identify…

Work organisation, bullying and intention to leave in the hospitality industry

Philip Bohle, Angela Knox, Jack Noone, Maria Mc Namara, Julia Rafalski, Michael Quinlan

The purpose of this paper is to examine relationships between work organisation, bullying and intention to leave (ITL) in the Australian hospitality industry, using pressure…

Background and rationale of collective bargaining around work-family issues in Italy: The duality of the business case argument

Egidio Riva

The purpose of this paper is to outline and assess the role of industrial relations in introducing work-family-related policies and investigate the drivers, nature and scope of…

The impact of human resources practices on consumers’ investment intentions: A study in the financial sector

Aristides I. Ferreira, Luis F. Martinez, Rosa I. Rodrigues, Carla Ilhéu

Research has shown that corporate policies affect customers’ decisions. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the influence of human resources (HR) practices on investment…

Evaluating the prevalence of employees without written terms of employment in the European Union

Colin C. Williams, Aysegul Kayaoglu

Until now, there has been scant evidence on the proportion and characteristics of employees working without a written contract or terms of employment. To begin to fill this gap…

Good employees through good jobs: A latent profile analysis of job types and employee outcomes in the Belgian electricity sector

Stan De Spiegelaere, Monique Ramioul, Guy Van Gyes

The purpose of this paper is to identify different job types in the Belgian electricity sector and their relations with employee outcomes such as work engagement and innovative…

How and when service-oriented high-performance work systems foster employee service performance: A test of mediating and moderating processes

Zhen Wang, Haoying Xu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and when service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWS) impact employees’ service performance.

Agendas, alternatives, and collective labour law: A case study of local collective bargaining legislation in South China

Siqi Luo

The purpose of this paper is to explore how different actors interacted to influence local labour legislation in the case of the collective bargaining regulations in Guangdong…

Does motivation matter? The influence of the agency perspective on temporary agency workers

Pei-Chen Chen, Ming-Chao Wang, Shih-Chieh Fang

Based on agency perspective on temporary agency workers, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between firms’ agency problems and agency cost on agency workers;…

Southern Insurgency – The Coming of the Global Working Class

Thomas Klikauer