Employee Relations: Volume 45 Issue 1

CSR, credibility, employees' rights and legitimacy during a crisis: a critical analysis of British Airways, WizAir and EasyJet cases

Rasha Kassem, Aly Salama, Chanaka N. Ganepola

Using legitimacy and impression management theories, this study examines whether there is evidence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) decoupling by critically analysing the…

Socio-cultural capital in the Arab workplace: wasta as a moderator of ethical idealism and work engagement

Abraham Stefanidis, Moshe Banai, Grace K. Dagher

This study refines theory of social capital by nesting it within a cultural context. More specifically, it aims at describing, explaining, and predicting the role of wasta, a…

Getting the measure of remote e-working: a revision and further validation of the E-work life scale

Maria Charalampous, Christine Anne Grant, Carlo Tramontano

This paper aimed to revise and further validate the published e-work life (EWL) scale. The EWL scale was originally developed to assess theoretically relevant aspects of the…

Far from “Fauda”: creators with disabilities in an established-outsider figuration in the Israeli film and television industries

Shani Kuna

Ample literature has demonstrated that workers in the creative industries are excluded in terms of gender, race and class. Fewer studies, however, have examined the career…

Much blame – little gain? The effects of single vs multi-blaming on labelling and third-party intervention in workplace bullying

Eva Zedlacher, Allison Snowden

Organizational practitioners must often interpret accounts of workplace bullying. However, they are frequently reluctant to confirm the target's account and often fail to set…

Staff councils and their power resources – Workplace representation in German municipalities

Andrea Müller, Werner Schmidt

The paper examines the work and interactions of staff councils in German municipalities and the power resources the staff councils have at disposal. The paper also discusses the…

Exploring bullying behaviors from the perspective of physicians and nurses in Jordanian public hospitals

Raed Ababneh, Walaa Abu Ahmadah

This study aims to explore the perception of physicians and nurses toward the prevalence of workplace bullying behaviors (verbal, physical, social, and cyber) in Jordanian public…

Spaces of active disengagement across the food retail shop floor

Anastasios Hadjisolomou

The article challenges the narrow view in scholarship which presents disengagement as passive and simply the absence of condition of engagement and explores how food retail…

Fairness in human resource management practices and engineers' intention to stay in Indian construction firms

M. Hazeen Fathima, C. Umarani

More attention should be paid to human resource management practices, as they play a vital role in the retention of the skilled workforce for improved competitive advantage and…

Human resources under technological transformation: what HR professionals believe in an international scale

Konstantinos Mantzaris, Barbara Myloni

This paper examines the beliefs of human resource professionals (HRPs) regarding the impact of Industry 4.0 on organizations in terms of readiness for human resources management…

Job demands and resources when using technologies at work – development of a digital work typology

Caroline Ruiner, Christina Elisabeth Debbing, Vera Hagemann, Martina Schaper, Matthias Klumpp, Marc Hesenius

Digital technologies comprehensively change work processes and working conditions. However, the use of digital technologies and the modes of collaboration between technologies and…

How resource-based state-owned enterprises manage collective labor relations: a comparative case study in China

Jingfu Lu, Chuhong Wang, Luan Jiang

This study explores labor relations management behaviors of administrators and Party organizations in resource-based state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China based on social…

Online ride-hailing drivers' organising for interest representation in Ghana

Angela Dziedzom Akorsu, Akua Opokua Britwum, Shaibu Bukari, Benjamin Yaw Tachie, Musah Dankwah

Platform work challenges the traditional modes of workers' organising for interest representation. This paper aims to examine the political potential for voice and representation…

Employees’ fit to telework and work well-being: (in)voluntariness in telework as a mediating variable?

Silvia Lopes, Paulo C. Dias, Ana Sabino, Francisco Cesário, Ricardo Peixoto

The present study aims to examine the mediating role of (in)voluntariness in teleworking in explaining the relationship between employees’ fit to telework and work well-being…