Employee Relations: Volume 45 Issue 5

Critical exploration of AI-driven HRM to build up organizational capabilities

Nicole Böhmer, Heike Schinnenburg

Human resource management (HRM) processes are increasingly artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, and HRM supports the general digital transformation of companies' viable…

The dark side of high-performance work systems and self-sacrificial leadership: an empirical examination

Peipei Bai, Hossein Heidarian Ghaleh, Huikun Chang, Longzhen Li, Jongwook Pak

The study aims to offer a nuanced, fine-grained understanding of how the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWSs) and negative employee outcomes can be…

Foreign investment sensitivity to employment regulation: reassessing what really matters

Gary Walter Florkowski

Drawing on the international business and IHRM literature, this study investigated the effects that employment regulation and its nature of enforcement have on foreign investment…

Development of Gulf Cooperation Council human resources: an evidence-based review of workforce nationalization

Said Elbanna, Shatha M. Obeidat, Heba Younis, Tamer H. Elsharnouby

This study aimed to contribute to the field of Human Resource Management (HRM) by providing a critical review of existing scholarly research and a thematic analysis of the…

Managing mental health problems in the workplace: are small businesses different?

Annie Irvine, Jane Suter

This study addresses a gap in evidence on small employer experiences of managing mental health problems in the workplace. The authors gathered first-hand experiences of small…

An exploration of the practices of locational flexibility in developing economies: insights from the Nigerian higher education sector

Chima Mordi, Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi, Olatunji David Adekoya, Emeka Smart Oruh

This study explores the practices of locational flexibility in the Nigerian higher education sector. It examines the realities of remotely organising and managing academics'…

Determinants of job insecurity during COVID-19: quantitative insights from the Romanian labor market

Mihai Stelian Rusu, Adela Elena Popa, Livia Dana Pogan, Giorgian Ionut Gutoiu

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the issues related to job insecurity became even more prominent than before. This paper sets out to identify the determinants of job insecurity in…

Is ethical human resource management effective for ethical voice? Role of moral efficacy and moral task complexity

Silu Chen, Wenxing Liu, Guanglei Zhang, Chenling Tian

The purpose of this study was to examine the underlying mechanism as well as the boundary effect between employees' perceived ethical human resource management (HRM) and ethical…

Thriving in the face of burnout? The effects of wellbeing-oriented HRM on the relationship between workload, burnout, thriving and performance

Timothy Bartram, Brian Cooper, Fang Lee Cooke, Jue Wang

The development of sustainable employee-focused HRM approaches have grown in importance during and post-COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which…

Human resource management, quality of patient care and burnout during the pandemic: a job demands-resources approach

Andrés Salas-Vallina, Justo Herrera, Yasin Rofcanin

Based on the job-demands resources model, this study examines the potential of human resource management practices to simultaneously improve physicians' burnout and quality of…

When workplace humour turns into conflict: exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management

Qiandan Liao, Jenna Pandeli

Although humour and conflict are popular topics in management, little attention has been paid to the negative effects of humour in terms of how workplace humour could turn into…