Employee Relations: Volume 29 Issue 1

The early employment influences of sales representatives on the development of organizational commitment

Chu‐Mei Liu

This paper aims to assess the status of the organizational commitment construct and introduce a new way of looking at organizational commitment – especially in early stages of…

Absenteeism in the Nordic countries

Ann‐Kristina Løkke, Jacob K. Eskildsen, Troels Wendelboe Jensen

The purpose of this paper is to identify the drivers of absenteeism and gives information of the relationship between absenteeism and personal and organizational characteristics…

Line managers’ views on adopting human resource roles: the case of Hilton (UK) hotels

Sandra Watson, Gillian A. Maxwell, Lois Farquharson

The purpose of this paper is to explore different levels of line manager perspectives, namely strategic and first‐line on their role in human resource management (HRM) and human…

Regulation in Australian hotels: is there a lesson for the UK?

Angie Knox, Dennis Nickson

The purpose of the paper is to compare employment relations in the hotel industry in Australia and the UK. Australian industry employment is regulated by the state and union…

Psychological contract assessment after a major organizational change: The case of mergers and acquisitions

Victoria Bellou

This study aims to identify specific changes in the content of the psychological contract during mergers and acquisitions (M&As), looking into both the “previous” and the…

Grievance management and its links to workplace justice

Lawrence Nurse, Dwayne Devonish

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of workers' demographic characteristics on their perceptions of procedural justice from grievance management. A related aim…

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh