Employee Relations: Volume 44 Issue 7

The industrial relations chameleon: collective bargaining in the facility management business

Alejandro Godino, Oscar Molina

The paper aims to analyze collective bargaining in the facility management business of these six countries to explore similarities and differences between them. The analysis…

The physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms of health problems among employees before and during the COVID-19 epidemic

Maja Rožman, Polona Tominc

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has caused stress for everyone and impacted the lives of people globally. Such stress increases troubles for the employees…

What's in it for me and you? Exploring managerial perceptions of employees' work-related social media use

Kaisa Pekkala, Tommi Auvinen, Pasi Sajasalo, Chiara Valentini

This study focuses on managers' perceptions of employees' communicative role in social media, and explores the changes in the contractual nature of employment relations in…

Appropriately organized work and employees' concerns related to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case in Slovenia

Maja Rožman, Vesna Čančer

The main aim of the paper is to establish the effects of appropriately organized work as well as the effects of the employees' concerns related to work during the COVID-19…

Social interactions at work: why interactive work should be an analytical category in its own right

Nadja Doerflinger

The purpose of this paper is to make a conceptual argument for considering interactive work – i.e. work made up of micro-level exchanges or social interactions with third parties…

Gender labor inequalities in the public sector: the interplay between policy and micro-politics

Eva Bermúdez-Figueroa, Beltrán Roca

This paper aims to describe and explain women's labor participation in the public sector, particularly at the local level. The paper analyses the representation of women employees…

“Getting stuck in”: body work and physical capital in non-traditional occupations

Caroline Murphy, Aoife O'Meara

Drawing on Bourdieu's conceptualisation of physical capital, this article explores the experiences of male and female employees in non-traditional occupations where body work is…

HR specialists in the spotlight: aggregating popular culture representations to highlight the underlying occupational image

Rita Bissola, Barbara Imperatori

This study adopts the popular culture lens to investigate the collective understanding behind the human resources (HR) occupations.

What has employee loyalty to do with “love” to clients? Testing approaches to work as mediators

Ali Kazemi, Tinna Elfstrand Corlin

Drawing on the organizational psychology literature and social resource theory, this research aimed to investigate how attitude toward the employer (i.e. loyalty) and attitude…

Pay transparency, job turnover intentions and the mediating role of perceived organizational support and organizational justice

Rosanna Stofberg, Mark Bussin, Calvin M. Mabaso

Despite widespread media attention and growing interest from researchers, pay transparency remains an under-studied field of research and its impact on organizational outcomes…