Employee Relations: Volume 40 Issue 2

Exploring the organizational drivers of sexual harassment: Empowered jobs against isolation and tolerant climates

Andrea Ollo-López, Imanol Nuñez

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and identify the organizational drivers of sexual harassment (SH).

Manager-employee psychological contracts: enter the smartphone

Elena Obushenkova, Barbara Plester, Nigel Haworth

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how company-provided smartphones and user-device attachment influence the psychological contract between employees and managers in…

High-involvement innovation: views from frontline service workers and managers

Marisa Kay Smith

The purpose of this paper is to examine the experience of call centre employees who have been involved in high-involvement innovation (HII) activities to understand what frontline…

HR practices and employee performance: the mediating role of well-being

Violetta Khoreva, Heidi Wechtler

The purpose of this paper is to examine the associations between the skill-, motivation- and opportunity-enhancing dimensions of human resource (HR) practices and in-role and…

Motives for (non) practicing demotion

Tanja Verheyen, Marie-Anne Guerry

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the practice of demotion. This study aims to do so in two ways: first, by investigating Belgian HR professionals’ key motives…

Workplace bullying: The interactive effects of the perpetrator’s gender and the target’s gender

Darcy McCormack, Nikola Djurkovic, Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe, Gian Casimir

The purpose of this paper is to examine if the gender of the perpetrator and the gender of the target have interactive effects on the frequency of downward workplace bullying to…

Does e-HRM improve labour productivity? A study of commercial bank workplaces in Pakistan

Naveed Iqbal, Mansoor Ahmad, Matthew M.C. Allen, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq

Drawing on data from a unique, large-scale survey, the purpose of this paper is to examine the links between e-HRM and perceived labour productivity both directly and through the…

Demographic diversity on boards and employer/employee relationship

Ji Li, Ying Zhang, Silu Chen, Wanxing Jiang, Shanshan Wen, Yanghong Hu

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between demographic diversity on boards and employer/employee relationship (EER) and to test the moderating effect of…

Structuring collective change agency internally: Transformers, enforcers, specialists and independents

Nick Wylie, Andrew Sturdy

The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe and evaluate the different ways in which formal collective change agency is structured in specialist units inside 25 diverse…

To adjust or not to adjust in the host country? Perspective of interactionism

Chao-Chih Hung, Tzung-Cheng Huan, Chun-Han Lee, Hsin-Mei Lin, Wen-Long Zhuang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of regulatory foci (promotion focus and prevention focus) to expatriate adjustments (general, interaction, and work…

Responses to job demands: moderating role of worker cooperatives

Rhokeun Park

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between job demands and job search behavior. The study also explores…

Creating a competence profile of a new profession: social service agents in welfare centers

Riitta Forsten-Astikainen, Pia Heilmann

This study examines in detail how a new occupational group in a field creates and defines its professional competences. The background of the study refers to a new way of…

Discrete choice and survival models in employee turnover analysis

Rafa Madariaga, Ramon Oller, Joan Carles Martori

The purpose of this paper is to assess the capacity of two methodological approaches – discrete choice and survival analysis models – to investigate the relationship between…

The employment situations and career prospects of postdoctoral researchers

Christine Teelken, Inge Van der Weijden

The purpose of this paper is to draw on the employment situation of postdoctoral researchers (postdocs) in the Netherlands, concerning their career prospects and embeddedness…

Exploring the mediating effects between transformational leadership and organizational performance

Lorena Para-González, Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez, Angel Rafael Martínez-Lorente

The purpose of this paper is to study the possible mediating mechanisms (human resource management (HRM), learning and innovation) that could exist in the relationship between…

Development and retention of Generation Y employees: a conceptual framework

Mohammad Faraz Naim, Usha Lenka

The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework of development, commitment, and retention of Generation Y employees.