Employee Relations: Volume 44 Issue 2

Outcomes of talent management: the role of perceived equity

Amina R. Malik, Parbudyal Singh

To date, the effects of two approaches – inclusive and exclusive – to talent management (TM) on employee outcomes are largely unexplored. This paper explores the role of perceived…

Line managers' perceptions of diversity management: insights from a social exchange theory perspective

Stefanos Nachmias, Fotios Mitsakis, Eleni Aravopoulou, Christopher J. Rees, Amairisa Kouki

Drawing on the social exchange theory, this study aims to explore line managers' perceptions of diversity management, as well as their perceptions of their role and…

Older healthcare workers' satisfaction: managing the interaction of age, job security expectations and autonomy

Bridget Rice, Nigel Martin, Peter Fieger, Taiba Hussain

Demographic changes involving a worldwide ageing population and later retirements produce a gradual ageing of the workforce and major concerns about how ageing may influence the…

“It needs to be the right blend”: a qualitative exploration of remote e-workers’ experience and well-being at work

Maria Charalampous, Christine Anne Grant, Carlo Tramontano

This present qualitative study explores the impact of the remote e-working experience on employees’ well-being.

Economic, organizational and psychological determinants of early turnover: evidence from a pharmaceutical company in China

Di Xie, Kiyoshi Takahashi

Early turnover is a worldwide problem that occurs frequently during the first three years of employment. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this study attempts to find the…

E-work evaluation through work–life balance, job effectiveness, organizational trust and flexibility: evidence from Kosovo during COVID-19

Albanë Gashi, Enver Kutllovci, Genc Zhushi

This study aims to assess e-working remotely from the perspective of online workers based on important theoretical aspects that have been found to have an impact in this regard…

The impact of employment relationships on firm sustainability

Francisco Rincon-Roldan, Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales

The aim of this study was to analyse the influence of different employment relationships (ERs) on the sustainability results of cooperatives. The authors approached the type of ER…

Need to downsize? Your future employees may like the idea of cutting pay more

Yeongjoon Yoon

Studies comparing the consequences of payroll cost reduction methods (i.e. cutting pay and downsizing) have been limited, with no studies comparing these methods' impact on…

Workforce localization, women workers and gendered power relations in Saudi Arabian private sector workplaces

Saja Albelali, Steve Williams

The paper investigates the implications for gendered power relations at work of Nitaqat, a workforce localization policy operating in Saudi Arabia which, by regulating the…

Profiling the “big fish in a small pond” and examining which one swims the most happily

Maude Boulet

To disentangle the impact of each type of overqualification, the author created four profiles of overqualified workers based on the metaphor of the big fish in a small pond: “the…

Employee perception of talent management practices and turnover intentions: a multiple mediator model

Boontip Boonbumroongsuk, Parisa Rungruang

The study aims to investigate employees' overall justice perception and job stress as multiple mediators in the relationship between perceived talent management (TM) practices and…

Communitarian norms and employee performance management in Africa

Loice Natukunda

The paper aims to critically evaluate the day-to-day processes of employee performance management and control (EPMC) in an African-based organization and sheds light on formal and…

Putting a number on it: a latent profile approach to the typology of European Works Councils

Stan De Spiegelaere

Identify the different types of experiences of European Works Council (EWC) members based on the four fields of interaction of EWCs and evaluate their relative presence.

A conditional process model linking high-performance work systems, collective turnover, collectivist culture and organizational performance

Jinuk Oh, Mijeong Kim

This study addresses three research questions: (1) do high-performance work systems (HPWS) enhance organizational performance by reducing collective turnover? (2) does a…