International Journal of Manpower: Volume 40 Issue 7

Women on boards and CEO pay-performance link

Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Junrui Zhang, Nanyan Dong, Muhammad Abdul Majid Makki

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the crucial question of whether gender diversity in boardroom is associated with CEO pay and CEO pay-performance link.

Quits and ladders: does mobility improve outcomes?

Ivan Privalko

The purpose of this paper is to compare internal and external job mobility (quits and promotions) as separate mechanisms for workers improving earnings and job fit.

All work and no play? Antecedents of the leisure involvement of Taiwan expatriate managers in Mainland China

Hung-Chieh Chao, Alastair M. Morrison, Bihu Wu

The purpose of this paper is to construct and test an antecedent relationship path model for the leisure involvement of Taiwan expatriate managers working in Mainland China. A…

Career adaptability and active job search behavior of Korean older workers: The mediating roles of attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help

Doo Hun Lim, Woocheol Kim, Heh Youn Shin

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help between career adaptability and active job search…

Depreciation of human capital: a sectoral analysis in OECD countries

Valeria Lentini, Gregorio Gimenez

The purpose of this paper is to investigate which sectors are more vulnerable to human capital depreciation, with an emphasis on potential differences in skills and in ICT…

Employers’ preferences for IT-retrainees: evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Melvin Vooren, Carla Haelermans, Wim Groot, Henriette Maassen van den Brink

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) on the competencies of potential information technology (IT)-retrainees. The results give…

Automation, job characteristics and job insecurity

Tom Coupe

The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether specific jobs characteristics, which experts have identified as being more automation proof, are associated with reduced job…

High-commitment organization and employees’ job performance: The roles of the strength of the HRM system and taking charge

Jiaqi Yan, Jinlian Luo, Jianfeng Jia, Jing Zhong

The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms by which high-commitment organization is associated with employees’ job performance through the perspective of taking charge…

The wage gap in Spain for temporary workers: the effects of the Great Recession

Xisco Oliver, Maria Sard

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers across the whole wage distribution, not just at the mean, and the evolution before and…

The role of transformational leadership in citizenship behavior: Organizational learning and interpersonal trust as mediators

Eun-Jee Kim, Sunyoung Park

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among transformational leadership, organizational learning, interpersonal trust and organizational citizenship behavior…