Employee Relations: Volume 38 Issue 2

Competencies of older workers and its influence on career success and job satisfaction

Sophie Hennekam

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of the competencies motivation, integrity and social skills on both intrinsic and extrinsic career success.

Temporary agency workers shake a work community: a social capital perspective

Riitta Viitala, Jenni Kantola

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the kinds of effects that using a temporary agency workforce may cause on an organisational level, especially on relations between…

Employee beliefs regarding the impact of unconventional appearance on customers in Mexico and Turkey

Katherine Karl, Joy Van Eck Peluchette, Leda McIntyre Hall

The increasing prevalence of unconventional appearance attributes (e.g. tattoos, piercings, unnatural hair color, alternative clothing) is a concern among employers as these…

The purpose of variable pay schemes and trade unions

Aurora Trif, John Geary

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate concerning the compatibility of variable pay schemes (VPS) and trade unions, by investigating the effects of the…

Women and expatriate assignments: Exploring the role of perceived organizational support

Arup Varma, Linda Russell

The purpose of the paper is twofold – first, to explore the role of perceived organizational support (POS) during the three critical stages of the female expatriate experience…

Measuring employee perception of performance management system effectiveness: Conceptualization and scale development

Neha Paliwal Sharma, Tanuja Sharma, Madhushree Nanda Agarwal

Concerns about the effectiveness of performance management systems (PMS) have long-driven researchers and practitioners to explore ways of measuring it. It is imperative for…

Annual hours, workplace partnership and mutual gains: exploring the links

Lorraine Ryan, Joseph Wallace

The purpose of this paper is to explore the capacity of annual hours (AH) to deliver gains to both workers and management and assesses the role of workplace partnership in three…

Employer-initiated collective bargaining: a case study of the Chinese sweater industry

Xiaoyi Wen

Collective bargaining (CB) in China is perceived as inadequate, thanks to the lack of trade union independence and representation. However, CB of the sweater industry in Wenling…

Competition and constraint: Economic globalization and human resource practices in 23 European countries

Ferry Koster, Rafael Wittek

The purpose of this paper is to investigate three distinct hypotheses about the relationship between human resource (HR) practices (discretion and skill enhancement) and the level…

Do We Need HR? Repositioning People Management for Success

Muhammad Faisol Chowdhury