Employee Relations: Volume 46 Issue 2

UK higher education staff's mental health and wellbeing during Covid-19

Rasha Kassem, Fotios Mitsakis

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of academic and professional Higher Education (HE) staff in the UK.

Motivating, developing and retaining talent through job enrichment: an exploration of “side-of-desk” projects in a corporate environment

Carla Thomas, Lisa Rowe, Neil Moore

Global talent shortages, new skill demand and rising numbers of unfilled posts are fuelling an increasingly challenging job market, exacerbated by economic uncertainty and…

Work–life balance: Does leadership matter?

Kareem Folohunso Sani, Toyin Ajibade Adisa

The extant literature on work–life balance (WLB) has generally overlooked the interrelationship between leadership and WLB. Does leadership have any impact on employees' use of…

Employee corporate social responsibility and well-being: the role of work, family and culture spillover

Ester Ellen Trees Bolt, Stephen T. Homer

Considering the conservation of resources (COR) theory, this research investigates the mediating roles of work, family and culture on the relationship between employee corporate…

Understanding why do we stay in our jobs? A bibliometric and content analysis of job embeddedness in the past two decades (2001–2021)

Shubh Majumdarr, Shilpee A. Dasgupta

Job embeddedness is considered crucial for organizational success, as it promotes social capital and helps to reduce turnover. A holistic review of job embeddedness remains…

The search for training and skill improvement of seasonal workers in tourism

Vincenzo Fasone, Giulio Pedrini, Raffaele Scuderi

The paper aims at assessing the role of the different stages of the employment process in gauging workers' willingness to upskill themselves at the end of a seasonal employment…

Retaining the repatriate by organisation in developing countries (in Africa): understanding the decision-making point (stay or leave) of the expatriate

Linus Kekleli Kudo, Ruth McPhail, William Vuk Despotovic

Despite the high rates of repatriate attrition, organisations in developing countries continue to send some of their employees to study in tertiary institutions in developed…

The impact of GHRM practices on employee workplace outcomes and organizational pride: a conservation of resource theory perspective

Aiman Niazi, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Mehwish Iftikhar, Asifa Obaid

In light of the widely acknowledged significance of GHRM practices, this study improves comprehension pertaining to GHRM practices and employee workplace outcome relationships…

The impact of justice perceptions of performance appraisal practices on job satisfaction and intention to stay: the mediating role of job engagement

Ram Shankar Uraon, Ravikumar Kumarasamy

This study examines the direct impact of justice perceptions of performance appraisal practices (procedural, distributive, interpersonal and informational justice) on job…

Evaluating the employer branding mix model: a study in the Spanish healthcare sector

M. Luisa Rayón, Marina Romeo, Montserrat Yepes-Baldó, Sefa Boria-Reverter

This research examines the applicability of the Employer Branding (EB) Mix model developed by Rayón et al. (2022), one of the few empirically validated models, to promote…

GCC workforce nationalization: what factors contribute to the comprehensive implementation of Qatarization practices?

Said Elbanna

Most prior literature on the GCC workforce nationalization has focused on a limited set of themes (e.g. nationalization challenges), initiatives (e.g. quota system) and…

Managing human capital in major league soccer: an empirical study of internal development and external acquisition

Christopher M. Harris, Lee Warren Brown, Mark B. Spence

This study examines factors that influence organizations’ choices of an internal human capital development strategy and an external human capital acquisition strategy. The human…