Employee Relations: Volume 41 Issue 3

Virtuality at work and social media use among dispersed workers: Promoting network ties, shared vision and trust

Karolis Tijunaitis, Debora Jeske, Kenneth S. Shultz

Technology and globalization of services have facilitated the digitalization of many processes at work. However, their impact on social capital is unknown. The purpose of this…

Employee involvement and job satisfaction: a tale of the millennial generation

Gustavo A. García, Diego René Gonzales-Miranda, Oscar Gallo, Juan Pablo Roman-Calderon

The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effect of employee involvement in the workplace on job satisfaction for millennial workers in Colombia.

Do we see the same? Discrepant perception of diversity and diversity management within a company

Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens, Inju Yang

The purpose of this paper is to paper investigates whether different perceptions exist with regard to diversity management within an organisation. Additionally, if such…

Job crafting and well-being in the elderly care sector: the effect of over-commitment

Marina Romeo, Montserrat Yepes-Baldó, Miguel Ángel Piñeiro, Kristina Westerberg, Maria Nordin

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the moderation effect of over-commitment in the job crafting–well-being relationship, in the elderly care sector in Spain.

Specific HR practices and employee commitment: the mediating role of job satisfaction

Arshad Mahmood, Muhammad Naseer Akhtar, Usman Talat, Chuanmin Shuai, James C. Hyatt

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the influence mechanisms of specific HR practices variables – salary, job stability and job enrichment – upon employee…

Consumer-directed care and the relational triangle: Power, subordination and competing demands – a qualitative study

Graeme Edward Payne, Greg Fisher

Following a recent government initiated change to a consumer-directed care model across the Australian community aged care sector, the purpose of this paper is to explore…

Organizational policies and diversity management in Saudi Arabia

Mohamed-Osman Shereif Mahdi Abaker, Omar Ahmad Khalid Al-Titi, Natheer Shawqi Al-Nasr

The purpose of this paper is to report empirical research conducted in Saudi Arabia on the impacts of organizational policies and practices on the diversity management of the…

Job quality dynamic in Benin

Kenneth Kponou, Benjamin Fomba Kamga

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the job quality in Benin between 2007 and 2011. To do this, the study constructed a multidimensional measure of job quality and identified…

“Bad jobs”: a case study of toilet attendants

Stef Adriaenssens, Jef Hendrickx

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge of precarious and low-quality jobs with the study of toilet attendants, an ideal typical case of low-wage manual…

Third-party interventions in workplace bullying: a neoliberal agenda?

Hazel Mawdsley, Alison Thirlwall

Bullying is a persistent, damaging feature of neoliberal workplaces, despite the increased use of third-party interventions (TPIs). The purpose of this paper is to investigate how…

Modelling the subjective experience of fun at work

Maeve Clancy, Carol Linehan

The purpose of this paper is to explain some divergent findings on experiences of fun at work. It explains conflicting findings by moving from a focus on classifying the activity…

Organisational culture and effectiveness: A multi-perspective evaluation of an Indian knowledge-intensive firm

Jossy Mathew

The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the theorised relationship between organisational culture and effectiveness.

Expatriates’ motivations for going abroad: The role of organisational embeddedness for career satisfaction and job effort

Christian Linder

It is widely accepted that expatriates have career expectations and motivations for working abroad that differ according to whether their posting is self-initiated or assigned by…

Regional crises and corruption: the eclipse of the quality of working life in Nigeria

Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Gbolahan Gbadamosi

In recent years, there has been a rapid decline in the quality of working life (QWL) of Nigerian workers at all levels. This phenomenon is cryptic and knowledge thereof is…

The individual side of ambidexterity: Do inspirational leaders and organizational learning resolve the exploitation-exploration dilemma?

Andrés Salas Vallina, Maria D. Moreno-Luzon, Anna Ferrer-Franco

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine whether inspirational leadership of heads of specialized medical units is related to individual ambidexterity of their…

The mediating role of overall fairness perception: a structural equation modelling assessment

Jihad Mohammad, Farzana Quoquab, Fazli Idris, Mohammad Al Jabari, Raed Wishah

Most of the past studies related to organisational justice focussed on different types of justice, such as procedural justice, distributive justice and interactional justice…