Employee Relations: Volume 44 Issue 4

Exploring the role of age in workplace intimidation in the US restaurant industry

Regina Yanson, Jessica M. Doucet, Alysa D. Lambert

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between employee age and intimidation in the workplace. Dysfunctional employee behaviors such as harassment and…

Managing religion at work: a necessary distinction between words and deeds. A multiple case study of the postures facing religious expression in French organizations

Hugo Gaillard

Religious expression at work (REW) has a unique place in France. The authors studied the perception of the postures of four organizations in the face of this phenomenon, focusing…

Mental health of business academics within the COVID-19 era: can meaningful work help? A qualitative study

Mohamed Mousa, Georges Samara

Through addressing academics in four public business schools in Egypt, the authors of this paper aim to uncover how meaningful work might shape the mental health of the addressed…

Recent trends in labor productivity

Guzel Salimova, Alisa Ableeva, Aygul Galimova, Ramzilya Bakirova, Tatiana Lubova, Aidar Sharafutdinov, Irek Araslanbaev

Using the example of Russia, this paper studied and analyzed productivity of the labor force in agriculture as an important industry for ensuring the sustainable development of…

Do politically connected, economically powerful firms comply with labor laws in China?

Ying Chen, Yuanyuan Sun

This study investigates, from a resource dependence perspective, the effects of domestic private firms' political connections and economic power on their labor law compliance in…

Taking off the rose-colored glasses: the influence of crises on employee relationship management

Audra Diers-Lawson, Lorraine Collins

The central aim of this research is to deepen the analysis of the influence that crises have on employee relations by using the stakeholder relationship management model (SRM) to…

Gender, talent management and firm performance: MNCs' female-focused talent management practices in Russia

Marina Latukha, Snejina Michailova, Dana L. Ott, Daria Khasieva, Darya Kostyuk

There is a substantial void in the understanding of the effect of talent management (TM) practices specifically targeted at females on firm performance. This paper investigates…

How workplace fun promotes informal learning among team members: a cross-level study of the relationship between workplace fun, team climate, workplace friendship, and informal learning

Amber Yun-Ping Lee, Po-Chien Chang, Heng-Yu Chang

The purpose is to examine the cross-level relationship between workplace fun and informal learning with workplace friendship as a mediator and team climate as a moderator.

Autonomy and new modes of control in digital work contexts – a mixed-methods study of driving professions in food logistics

Caroline Ruiner, Matthias Klumpp

Digitalization is changing organizations with positive and negative impacts such as increased autonomy on the one hand and increased surveillance and control on the other hand…

“We have to take care of them”: front office workers and the secret sexual encounters of guests in high-end hotels

Fabio Gaspani

In line with the escapist dimension of hospitality settings, the article investigates how the front office staff of high-end hotels deal with clients' secret sexual encounters.

The joint impact of HRM attributions and HRM system consistency on employee well-being: a two-wave study

Qijie Xiao, Fang Lee Cooke

This study extends extant literature by establishing an integrative framework connecting different forms of HRM attributions (internal HRM well-being attributions and exploiting…

Employees' reactions to supervisors' fulfillment/non-fulfillment of psychological contract promises: an experimental field study

Khaldoun I. Ababneh, Evangelos Dedousis, Udo Braendle

Drawing upon social exchange theory and psychological contract (PC) research, this study aims to examine the impact of supervisors' fulfillment/non-fulfillment of transactional…

Happiness at work through spiritual leadership: a self-determination perspective

Shalini Srivastava, Aparna Mendiratta, Prabhat Pankaj, Richa Misra, Rajat Mendiratta

Upholding congruency with self-determination theory (SDT), the study intends to analyze the impact of spiritual leadership (SL) on happiness at work (HAW) via affective commitment…