Employee Relations: Volume 42 Issue 6

Explicating innovation-based human resource management's influence on employee satisfaction and performance

Taiwo Temitope Lasisi, Ali Ozturen, Kayode Kolawole Eluwole, Turgay Avci

This study aims to build and test an empirical model that investigates the mechanism with which innovation-based human resource management (HRM) impacts employee satisfaction and…

Forty years of Employee Relations – The International Journal: a bibliometric overview

Aakanksha Kataria, Satish Kumar, Riya Sureka, Bindu Gupta

This paper examines the leading trends for the journal Employee Relations from 1979 to 2018 upon its completion of 40 years of publication. Through conducting a bibliometric…

The mediating role of employee commitment in the relationship between quality of work life and the intention to stay

Arawati Agus, Rajni Selvaraj

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (QWL), employee commitment and the intention to stay of nurses in private hospitals in…

Gender, diversity management perceptions, workplace happiness and organisational citizenship behaviour

Mohamed Mousa, Hiba K. Massoud, Rami M. Ayoubi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether females have different perceptions of diversity management and workplace happiness compared to their male colleagues…

Productivity or illusion? Assessing employees' behavior in an employability paradox

Hassan Imam, Maria José Chambel

Employability has been studied in different disciplines (e.g. occupational health and career) and has been seen as a personal resource with overall positive outcomes. The present…

Psychological contract violation and turnover intention: the role of job dissatisfaction and work disengagement

Muhammad Umer Azeem, Sami Ullah Bajwa, Khuram Shahzad, Haris Aslam

This paper investigates the role of psychological contract violation (PCV) as the antecedent of employee turnover intention. It also explores the role of job dissatisfaction and…

Are organizations committed to stress management interventions?

Dorota Molek-Winiarska, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

Work-related stress causes individual, societal and economic costs. Stress management interventions (SMIs) are implemented to decrease those costs, reduce the psychosocial harms…

Tackling the crunch mode: the rise of an enterprise union in South Korea's game industry

Sun Wook Chung, Hyunji Kwon

The present study seeks to trace the unionization process of a global top 10 video game company (Company N) in which workers formed the first enterprise union in South Korea's…

Measuring the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on pharmaceutical industry's effectiveness: the mediating role of employee competencies

Frank Nana Kweku Otoo

The aim of this paper is to examine the mediating role of employee competencies in the association between human resource management (HRM) practices and organizational…

Employee stress and the implication of high-power distance culture: empirical evidence from Nigeria's employment terrain

Emeka Smart Oruh, Chianu Dibia

This paper explores the link between employee stress and the high-power distance (HPD) culture in Nigeria. The study context is the banking and manufacturing sectors in Nigeria…

Exploring how institutions shape managerialist employment relations and work-life balance (WLB) challenges in Nigeria

Uzoechi Nwagbara

This study explores the nexus between institutions and managerialist employment relations and subsequent work-life balance (WLB) challenges for Nigerian employees. Through an…

Personality, occupational sorting and routine work

Jutta Viinikainen, Petri Böckerman, Marko Elovainio, Christian Hakulinen, Mirka Hintsanen, Mika Kähönen, Jaakko Pehkonen, Laura Pulkki-Råback, Olli Raitakari, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen

A prominent labour market feature in recent decades has been the increase in abstract and service jobs, while the demand for routine work has declined. This article examines…

Wage-setting practices in the metalworking sector in Greece

Daphne Nicolitsas

The paper aims to link product market features in the Greek metal processing sector to the wage-setting practices followed therein.

The logic of attraction: exploring the institutional complexity of job preferences

Tanja Petry, Corinna Treisch, Bernadette Bullinger

Applying the institutional logics perspective to applicant attraction, this study investigates the level of uniformity among preferences for consulting job attributes associated…

Meaningful work as a mediator between perceived organizational support for environment and employee eco-initiatives, psychological capital and alienation

Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Pranati Aggarwal

In this paper, the authors propose and empirically test an integrated model which investigates the relationship between POS-E (perceived organizational support for the…

HRM formality differences in Pakistani SMEs: a three-sector comparative study

Muhammad Burhan, Stephen Swailes, Zahid Hameed, Imran Ali

Guided by institutional theory, this empirical paper examines variations in the adoption of HRM practices among SMEs in three different business sectors (services, manufacturing…

Is there transgender bias in the courtroom?

André L. Honorée, Rusty Juban

This study examines whether various judicial demographic and political characteristics have an influence on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination cases…

Workplace bullying and intention to leave: a moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and supervisory support

Shalini Srivastava, Swati Agarwal

This study investigates the association between workplace bullying and intention to leave. The study further attempts to understand the mediating and moderating roles of emotional…