Employee Relations: Volume 41 Issue 1

Employee advocacy in Africa: the role of HR practitioners in Malawi

Aminu Mamman, Christopher J. Rees, Rhoda Bakuwa, Mohamed Branine, Ken Kamoche

In recognising the weakness of trade unions and the lack of an institutional framework designed to enforce employee rights in an African context, the purpose of this paper is to…

Construction and initial validation of the E-Work Life Scale to measure remote e-working

Christine Anne Grant, Louise M. Wallace, Peter C. Spurgeon, Carlo Tramontano, Maria Charalampous

The purpose of this paper is to develop and provide initial validation for the new E-Work Life (EWL) Scale. This measure assesses a range of theoretically relevant aspects of the…

Talent management: two pathways to glory? Lessons from the sports arena

Juan M. Maqueira, Sebastián Bruque, Ákos Uhrin

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between financial and operational performance and the application of two different talent management (TM) models: internal…

Organizational emphasis on inclusion as a cultural value and third-party response to sexual harassment

José Luis Collazo Jr, Julie A. Kmec

Reliance on third-party judgments are common in efforts to identify and reduce workplace sexual harassment (SH). The purpose of this paper is to identify whether a workplace…

Unraveling the black box: The linkage between high-performance work systems and employee outcomes

Georgiana Karadas, Osman M. Karatepe

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential mediators that operate in the black box between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and employee outcomes.

Organizational career management practices: The role of the relationship between HRM and trade unions

Tomislav Hernaus, Dejana Pavlovic, Maja Klindzic

Organizations profoundly create development paths of individual’s careers. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to gain understanding about how organizational context (shaped…

The influences of transformational leadership on employee employability: Evidence from China

Xie Yizhong, Yevhen Baranchenko, Zhibin Lin, Chi Keung Lau, Jie Ma

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of job characteristics and social exchange in transformational leadership (TFL) and employability relationship.

The impact of a leader’s demographic and professional characteristics on employee motivation: Do they really matter?

Irene Campos-García, José Ángel Zúñiga-Vicente

Building on Upper Echelons Theory and prior research on strategic leadership, the purpose of this paper is to examine the possible effect on employee motivation of two sets of…

Automatic enrolment to pension plans in small organisations: a research agenda

Maureen Maloney, Alma McCarthy

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how firm size impacts pension workforce coverage with a particular focus on automatic enrolment (AE) to pension plans in small…

Towards well-being: role of diversity and nature of work

Akanksha Jaiswal, Lata Dyaram

Literature highlights diversity to facilitate cognitive outcomes; nevertheless, there is limited scholarly attention on affective diversity effects. The purpose of this paper is…

Relationship between perceived justice and identification: The mediating role of organizational images

Massimo Bergami, Gabriele Morandin

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the antecedents of organizational identification. Specifically, this paper aims to integrate two perspectives…

Examining the effect of different facets of mindfulness on work engagement

Asanka Gunasekara, Connie Shao-mei Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between mindfulness and work engagement, with a particular focus on exploring the extent to which four facets of…

What matters for knowledge work productivity?

Miikka Palvalin

Knowledge work productivity is a well-studied topic in the existing literature, but it has focussed mainly on two things. First, there are many theoretical models lacking…

Employee voice and silence in multinational corporations in the mobile telecommunications industry in Nigeria

Jude Chukwuemeka Emelifeonwu, Reimara Valk

The purpose of this paper is to explore employee voice and silence in the mobile telecommunication industry in Nigeria.

Reactions to the national living wage in hospitality

Andreas Walmsley, Shobana Partington, Rebecca Armstrong, Harold Goodwin

The purpose of this paper is to explore reactions to the introduction by the UK Government of the National Living Wage (NLW) in the UK hospitality sector and consider implications…