Employee Relations: Volume 37 Issue 5

High performance HRM and establishment performance in Pakistan: an empirical analysis

Mansoor Ahmad, Matthew Allen

Despite a growing literature on human resource management (HRM) in emerging economies, evidence from Pakistan is limited. There is scant information on both the human resource…

Neither-nor: career success of women in an Arab Middle Eastern context

Hayfaa Tlaiss

Few studies examine the career success of women in the Arab Middle East. With that in mind, the purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptualizations of the career success of…

Small firm training: just meeting the day-to-day needs of the business

Rowena Barrett

The purpose of this paper is to explore what the attitudes of small firm owner-managers are to developing the skills of their key resources and then examine how these and other…

Bringing the “right to request” flexible working arrangements to life: from policies to practices

Rae Cooper, Marian Baird

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the “right to request” flexible working arrangements (FWAs), located in national policy and in organisational policy contexts, are…

Labour dispute arbitration in China: perspectives of the arbitrators

Kyung-Jin Hwang, Kan Wang

The purpose of this paper is to explore China’s labour dispute arbitration system reform through analysing the degree to which it has attained its stated objectives – notably…

Employee participation and outcomes: organizational strategy does matter

Rhokeun Park

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of perceived organizational support (POS) in the relationship between employee participation and organizational…

Economic Crisis, Quality of Work, and Social Integration: The European Experience

Darren Alexander McGuire