Employee Relations: Volume 42 Issue 3

New times for HRM? Well-being oriented management (WOM), harmonious work passion and innovative work behavior

Andres Salas-Vallina, Manoli Pozo, Rafael Fernandez-Guerrero

The purpose of this paper is to measure and conceptualize the concept of well-being-oriented management (WOM), and to investigate the relationship between well-being oriented…

Multinationals and the evolving contours of their human management practices in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

József Poór, Allen D. Engle, Ildikó Éva Kovács, Michael J. Morley, Kinga Kerekes, Agnes Slavic, Nemanja Berber, Timea Juhász, Monica Zaharie, Katerina Legnerova, Zuzana Dvorakova, Marzena Stor, Adam Suchodolski, Zoltán Buzády, Ainur Abdrazakova

We explore the effects of three organizational variables (country of origin of the multinational company (MNC), the timing of entry into the European Union and the mode of…

Employee isolation and telecommuter organizational commitment

Wendy Wang, Leslie Albert, Qin Sun

In light of the increasing popularity of telecommuting, this study investigates how telecommuters' organizational commitment may be linked to psychological and physical isolation…

Coping with mental health conditions at work and its impact on self-perceived job performance

Sophie Hennekam, Sarah Richard, François Grima

This exploratory qualitative study examines both the impact of mental health conditions on self-perceived job performance and how individuals with mental health conditions cope…

British Muslim women's experience of the networking practice of happy hours

Shehla R. Arifeen

Networking is deemed important for women in careers. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the interaction of a specific networking practice with a religious practice…

When and why skill variety influences employee job crafting: Regulatory focus and social exchange perspectives

Jie Li, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Jipeng Qi

The literature on job crafting has paid scant attention to the role of skill variety, one dimension of job characteristics, as a predictor of employee job crafting. By integrating…

Careless whispers: confidentiality and board-level worker representatives

Valentina Franca, Michael Doherty

The article focuses on the role that ‘confidential information’ plays in relation to the work of board-level worker representatives, and their interaction with other worker…

A critical discourse analysis of the link between professional culture and organisational culture

Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Emeka Smart Oruh, Babatunde Akanji

Despite the fundamental role of culture in an organisational setting, little is known of how organisational culture can be sometimes determined/influenced by professional culture…

Do compassionate firms outperform? The role of organizational learning

Jacob Guinot, Sandra Miralles, Alma Rodríguez-Sánchez, Ricardo Chiva

Based on a new management paradigm rooted on care and compassion, this study explores the consequences of compassion at work on organizational learning and firm performance.

Line management attributions for effective HRM implementation: Towards a valid measurement instrument

Anna Bos-Nehles, Beatrice Van der Heijden, Maarten Van Riemsdijk, Jan Kees Looise

Many HRM practices are never thoroughly implemented, or are implemented ineffectively. To better understand what line managers need to implement HRM practices effectively, the…

The culture of UK employee-owned worker cooperatives

David Wren

This paper presents exploratory, empirical data from a three-year study of organizational culture in for-profit, employee-owned businesses within the UK, comparing ownership types…

Anticipation of work–life conflict in higher education

Susana Pasamar, Karen Johnston, Jagriti Tanwar

This paper aims to further the understanding about the relationship between work–life conflict and possible barriers to career progression due to the perception of anticipated…

Organising experience of informal sector workers – a road less travelled

Girish Balasubramanian, Santanu Sarkar

This paper uses the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) framework of Zomeren et al. (2008) to explain the organising experiences of the informal sector workers…

Line management involvement in performance appraisal work: Toward a practice-based understanding

Daniel Tyskbo

Two research questions are asked in this paper: RQ1. How does line management involvement in PA work unfold in practice? RQ2. How does line management involvement contribute…