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Publication date: 3 December 2024

Imanol Nuñez and Andrea Ollo-López

Sexual harassment, a global concern, varies in prevalence across sectors. This article analyzes in detail the higher prevalence of harassment in these sectors.

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Purpose

Sexual harassment, a global concern, varies in prevalence across sectors. This article analyzes in detail the higher prevalence of harassment in these sectors.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing on data from a representative sample of European workers and using the inductive method, we posit four propositions regarding the organizational dynamics in four different sector-specific scenarios.

Findings

Contrary to perception, our research finds no conclusive evidence supporting a higher prevalence of sexual harassment within the armed forces. Economic and labor conditions drive sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, while the hospitality and non-profit sectors exhibit an elevated incidence potentially attributed to environmental factors. The healthcare industry presents a concerning scenario, with heightened prevalence due solely to organizational.

Originality/value

The originality of the paper is in its focus on how external and environmental factors, rather than just internal organizational mechanisms, contribute to sector-specific dynamics of sexual harassment. This approach provides deeper insights for developing tailored interventions and prevention strategies across different sectors.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 31 March 2023

Salomé Goñi-Legaz, Imanol Núñez and Andrea Ollo-López

This paper aims to investigate how home-based telework (HBT) affects job stress. The authors argue that an intrinsic effect of telework like work extension mediates this…

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Purpose

This paper aims to investigate how home-based telework (HBT) affects job stress. The authors argue that an intrinsic effect of telework like work extension mediates this relationship. Work extension is reflected in two employee behaviours: working in free time and presentism.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed model has been estimated using the Preacher and Hayes bootstrap method for multiple mediation analysis, with 1,000 repetitions. The data used come from the sixth European Working Conditions Survey.

Findings

The analysis indicates that HBT does not pose an inherent risk for job stress but causes a change in the employees' behaviour, increasing working in free time and presenteeism and thus job stress. The mediation model indicates that once these behaviours are controlled, the effect of HBT is to reduce stress.

Research limitations/implications

The authors argue that companies should focus on human resource practices to control workers' behaviours that have a detrimental effect on job stress while institutions should regulate HBT.

Originality/value

The analysis deepens the unclear relationship between HBT and job stress by introducing employees' behaviours concerning work extension into the equation.

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Personnel Review, vol. 53 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 12 February 2018

Andrea Ollo-López and Imanol Nuñez

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and identify the organizational drivers of sexual harassment (SH).

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and identify the organizational drivers of sexual harassment (SH).

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing on data from a representative sample of workers in Spain, this paper sheds light on the likelihood of SH influenced by: organizational environment and climate, organizational forms and structure, and job design parameters.

Findings

The analysis reveals that organizational climates where negative behaviors are tolerated are particularly advantageous for harassers. Furthermore, the profile of the victims of SH is that they work in isolation, are contracted through employment agencies, are not given training opportunities, and have low status in the firm. Analysis also reveals, however, that firms can reduce the risk of SH by empowering jobs and improving time flexibility.

Research limitations/implications

The use of secondary data implies some constrains: the type of measure and the failure to control for the role of SH perpetrators.

Practical implications

Managers should adopt some organizational policies, such as empower job or improve time flexibility, since they reduce the risk of SH.

Originality/value

This paper identifies some objective organizational settings where SH is more likely and provides some easy to apply solutions to prevent it.

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Employee Relations, vol. 40 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 6 November 2017

Ilias Livanos and Imanol Nuñez

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how precarious conditions at work affect older workers’ decision about their planned age of retirement.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how precarious conditions at work affect older workers’ decision about their planned age of retirement.

Design/methodology/approach

Different theoretical approaches on the decision to retire are investigated in order to ascertain whether precarious employment extends, or not, one’s working life. A rich data set including over 250,000 old workers across EU-15 is built for the empirical investigation.

Findings

The results suggest that old workers involved in precarious employment are planning to retire later than those who are engaged with more stable and regular jobs. However, lack of training as well as poor health conditions at work are found to be associated with early retirement.

Originality/value

The analysis conceptually associates two key features of modern labour markets (precariousness and retirement) and empirically provides some evidence of the effect of poor employment conditions on the decision to retire.

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Personnel Review, vol. 46 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 11 May 2017

Ilias Livanos and Imanol Núñez

This paper investigates the prevalence and distribution of under-skilling across Europe. First, in order to understand why under-skilling occurs, three main theoretical approaches…

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This paper investigates the prevalence and distribution of under-skilling across Europe. First, in order to understand why under-skilling occurs, three main theoretical approaches are discussed: (a) Inefficient signaling, (b) Skill shortages, and (c) On-the-job training substitution. Second, in order to measure the real dimension of the problem, we use the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS)1 to assess whether workers’ skills were lower than required at the point they started their job. Our results are rather mixed. First, we find under-skilling being related to some academic fields such as Health & Medicine, and Engineering. Second, we find that under-skilling is more prevalent among, not surprisingly, young workers but, rather unexpectedly, among permanent workers working in high-skilled occupations.

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Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-377-7

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Publication date: 22 February 2011

Imanol Nuñez and Mikel Villanueva

The concept of Safety Capital was developed by analyzing the creation and composition of the Intellectual Capital embedded in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) systems. The…

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Purpose

The concept of Safety Capital was developed by analyzing the creation and composition of the Intellectual Capital embedded in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) systems. The paper aims to address this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

By drawing a theoretical link for the relationship between OHS activities and intellectual capital, guidelines for the management of organizational knowledge on OHS systems are outlined.

Findings

The paper shows that occupational health and safety should be considered among the sources of intellectual capital of the firm.

Originality/value

The theoretical framework is a potential guide for substantial improvement of advanced OSH management systems, a key element to visualize incentives to invest in safety and a powerful instrument for research in intellectual capital quantification.

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Journal of Workplace Learning, vol. 23 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1366-5626

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Publication date: 27 May 2014

Pablo Arocena and Imanol Nuñez

– The purpose of this paper is to study the incidence of depression affecting work (DAW) performance and estimates gender differences across occupations.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study the incidence of depression affecting work (DAW) performance and estimates gender differences across occupations.

Design/methodology/approach

Using Labor Force Survey data from the UK in 2007, the authors first decompose the differential on the aggregate incidence rate of DAW between men and women into two components: the gender effect and the occupational effect. Then, the authors identify the stressors of DAW by means of a logit regression analysis.

Findings

The empirical results show that gender is not a significant explanatory variable of DAW. Further, when differences are analyzed for each gender separately, results show that the effect of occupations is stronger within females than within males.

Originality/value

Most of previous studies focus on occupational causes of depression. By contrast, this paper investigates the effect of depression on work performance.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 35 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 1 June 2012

Ainhoa Urtasun and Imanol Núñez

This paper aims to identify the work‐based competences associated with better career prospects in the Spanish labour market.

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Purpose

This paper aims to identify the work‐based competences associated with better career prospects in the Spanish labour market.

Design/methodology/approach

The relationship between employee‐based competencies and employment prospects is investigated through the lens of the competence‐based approach. The partial least squares (PLS) methodology is applied on a sample of over 5,000 Spanish employees.

Findings

The analysis establishes that skill, motivation, participation in decision‐making and the performance of non‐routine and complex tasks are associated with more favourable career prospects. Finally, it has also been found that human capital dimensions valued by firms vary with occupation, as clear differences have been observed between white‐ and blue‐collar occupations. In particular, social skills and motivation appear to be more relevant for blue‐collar workers than for white‐collar workers.

Originality/value

For the first time, this paper analyses employees' career prospects using work‐based competences as predictors. Additionally, the analysis is based within a very uncertain labour market, Spain, where high unemployment and an extensive use of temporary contracts seriously hinder workers' career prospects.

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Personnel Review, vol. 41 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0048-3486

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Publication date: 13 November 2009

Ilias Livanos, Çagri Yalkin and Imanol Nuñez

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the labour market status of females in Greece and the UK respectively and also attempts to explore what accounts for…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the labour market status of females in Greece and the UK respectively and also attempts to explore what accounts for the differences in the employment status between males and females. In particular, the study seeks to assess whether these differences can be explained by employees' endowments or by discrimination in the labour market.

Design/methodology/approach

Labour Force Survey (LFS) data are used to examine the impact of observable characteristics on female labour market participation, unemployment, and self‐employment through the use of logit models. An extension of the Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition technique is used to estimate the gender employment discrimination gap.

Findings

Clear evidence of gender differences was found in both countries, although differences are substantially larger in the case of Greece. Evidence of female employment discrimination was also found in both labour markets.

Originality/value

The paper explores the factors affecting the labour market situation of females and, for the first time, assesses the level of gender employment discrimination in Greece and the UK analysing the differences between the unemployment rates of males and females.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 30 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 11 May 2017

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Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-377-7

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