Employee Relations: Volume 31 Issue 5

The financial crisis and employee relations

John Gennard

The purpose of this paper is to examine the response of industrial relations systems to the current financial crisis.

Matching individuals and organizations: evidence from the Greek public sector

Victoria Bellou

Realizing the importance of value congruence between employees and organizations, the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of person‐organization (P‐O) fit on employee…

Organizational reactions to UK age discrimination legislation

Emma Parry, Shaun Tyson

The purpose of this paper is to use neo‐institutional theory to examine organizational responses to the age discrimination at work legislation, recently introduced in the UK. The…

Human resource management in relation to CEOs in nonprofit organizations

Fernando Matías‐Reche, Enrique A. Rubio‐López, Antonio Rueda‐Manzanares

The purpose of this paper is to consider whether those nonprofit organizations which exhibit more similar characteristics to market organizations regarding the percentage of paid…

It takes two to tango: evidence of a decline in institutional industrial relations in New Zealand

Barry Foster, John Murrie, Ian Laird

The purpose of this paper is to determine the attitudes of employers in a de‐regulated institutional industrial relations framework, and whether they are still willing to engage…

Reconceptualising absorptive capacity to explain the e‐enablement of the HR function (e‐HR) in organizations

Graeme Martin, Martin Reddington

The purpose of this paper is to ask why some organizations might be better than others at continuous innovation in the field of e‐enablement of human resource (e‐HR).

All powerful voice? The need to include “exit”, “loyalty” and “neglect” in empirical studies too

Matthew Allen, Heinz‐Josef Tüselmann

The purpose of this paper is to set out and justify a broader, systemic typology that encompasses, and is built around, the notion of voice. This leads to the development of a…