International Journal of Manpower: Volume 44 Issue 4

Unethical pro-organizational behavior: how employee ethical ideology and unethical organizational culture contribute

Linus Jonathan Vem, Jun-Hwa Cheah, Siew Imm Ng, Jo Ann Ho

The corporate atmosphere in recent times speaks volumes about the crises of confidence and credibility brewing among professionals due to the rising incidences of unethical…

How to prevent incivility from women employees? The role of psychological contract violation, aggressive reciprocal attitude and conscientiousness

Deborah Gervasi, Guglielmo Faldetta, Lamberto Zollo

The present work investigates the micro-mechanisms underlying the link between psychological contract violation (PCV) and incivility in women employees. Building on social…

In prosperity and adversity? The value of high-performance work practices for SMEs under conditions of environmental hostility and social embeddedness

Javier Martínez-del-Río, Ana Perez-Luño, Ana Maria Bojica

Taking a resource-based view, the authors analyse the effect of high-performance work practices (HPWPs) on the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under…

Privilege and hindrance on the USA earnings distribution by gender and race/ethnicity: an intersectional framework with 12 groups

Olga Alonso-Villar, Coral del Río

This paper explores the wages of White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and “other race” women and men once differences in basic characteristics among these 12 groups are…

Workload, work–life interface, stress, job satisfaction and job performance: a job demand–resource model study during COVID-19

James Chowhan, Kelly Pike

This study, using a comprehensive job demand–resources (JD-R) model, aims to explore the pressures of workload, work–life interface and subsequent impacts on employee stress and…

Emotional intelligence and leadership: insights for leading by feeling in the future of work

Surajit Saha, Roshni Das, Weng Marc Lim, Satish Kumar, Ashish Malik, Bharat Chillakuri

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a critical component of leadership that reflects the ability of leaders to understand how their emotions and actions affect the people around them…

Mediating and moderating effects of task interdependence and creative role identity behind innovation for service: evidence from China and Australia

Mingjun Yang, Tuan Luu, David Qian

Innovation for service contributes to service quality and customer satisfaction, and further benefits service-centered organizations to sustain competitive advantages. However…

Complementary collective bargaining and firm performance: new evidence for Italian firms

Laura Bisio, Stefania Cardinaleschi, Riccardo Leoni

Within the two-tier bargaining system, the role of complementary collective bargaining is somewhat controversial. In this paper, the authors analyse collective agreements from a…

Overeducation and scarring effects on the wages of young graduates

Begona Eguia, Carlos Rodriguez Gonzalez, Felipe Serrano

The authors’ goal in this paper is to study if there are long-run effects on the wages of those workers who entered the labour market overeducated but who have, over time, been…

Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns

Fabienne Kiener, Ann-Sophie Gnehm, Uschi Backes-Gellner

The purpose of this paper is to investigate self-competence—the ability to act responsibly on one's own—and likely nonlinear wage returns across different levels of…