Employee Relations: Volume 29 Issue 2

Solidarity through networks: The effects of task and informal interdependence on cooperation within teams

Ferry Koster, Frans Stokman, Randy Hodson, Karin Sanders

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of task and informal networks and their interaction on cooperative types of employee behaviour.

The incidence and impact of flexible working arrangements in smaller businesses

Gill Maxwell, Laura Rankine, Sheena Bell, Anna MacVicar

The aim of this article is to investigate the incidence and impact of FWAs in smaller businesses in Scotland, as an integral part of a recent European Social Fund project. From…

Shift work interventions for reduced work‐family conflict

Marie Gee Wilson, Andrea Polzer‐Debruyne, Sophie Chen, Sonia Fernandes

This research aims to investigate the efficacy of family involvement in shift work training targeting both physiological and social coping strategies.

London calling: selection as pre‐emptive strategy for cultural control

Matthew J. Brannan, Beverley Hawkins

This article seeks to explore forms of selection practice, focusing on role‐play techniques, which have been introduced in many organizations in an attempt to “objectivize” the…

Exploring the potential of high performance work systems in SMEs

Ian Drummond, Ian Stone

Aims to explore aspects of employee relations in firms included within The Sunday Times list of the UK's “Best Small Companies to Work For”, focusing in particular on the use of…

Emotional intelligence at work: links to conflict and innovation

Abubakr M. Suliman, Fuad N. Al‐Shaikh

This paper aims at exploring, for the first time in the Arab World, the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in affecting work outcomes.

Transnational bargaining? Legal enforceability?

Professor John Gennard