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Organizational support: Mechanisms to affect perceived overqualification on turnover intentions: a study of Chinese repatriates in multinational enterprises
Xiaoqian Ye, Ling Li, Xuejun TanDrawing on recent literature and empirical data, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between perceived organizational support (POS), perceived…
Pay reductions and work attitudes: the moderating effect of employee involvement practices
Wen Wang, Roger SeifertSince the 2008 financial crisis, the UK workforce in general has experienced a period of stagnant and falling wages in both nominal and real terms. The main parties involved…
Relationships between job embeddedness and employees’ life satisfaction
Emmanuel Twumasi Ampofo, Alan Coetzer, Paul PoisatThe purpose of this paper is to explore relationships between organisation embeddedness and life satisfaction, and community embeddedness and life satisfaction. The study also…
Extent of employee turnover in Nigerian SMEs: Employees’-owner/managers’ standpoint
Tejumade Omowumi Siyanbola, Mark W. GilmanThe purpose of this paper is to assess the magnitude of employee turnover (E-turnover) in Nigerian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with particular focus on the…
Exploring the role of employer forums – the case of Business in the Community Wales
Cassandra Bowkett, Marco Hauptmeier, Edmund HeeryCollective employer representation in the UK has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. Collective bargaining has declined and instead, the authors have seen the emergence…
The contribution of working conditions and care recipient characteristics to work-related abuse and exploitation of migrant home care workers
Ohad Green, Liat AyalonMigrant home care workers constitute a vulnerable group in society, which is often exposed to work-related abuse. The purpose of this paper is to explore which characteristics are…
Ethnically diverse workplaces in Irish hospitals: Perspectives of Irish and foreign-born professionals and their managers
Alicja Bobek, Camilla DevittThe purpose of this paper is to explore the ethnically diverse workplace in Irish hospitals by examining the perspectives of foreign- and Irish-born professionals and their…
German temporary agency workers’ SWB: the impact of POS provided by agencies
Susanne Imhof, Maike AndresenThe purpose of this paper is to focus on the specific relationship between temporary agency workers (TAWs) and their employing temporary work agencies in Germany that is…
Employers’ perception of women workers in Oman and the challenges they face
Rakesh Belwal, Shweta BelwalThe participation and productivity of women in Oman’s labor force are very low and heavily skewed toward the government sector. There are few women in the private sector and the…
Do multinational subsidiaries demonstrate a convergence across their HRM practices in a less developed host-country?: Evidence from Ghana
Desmond Tutu Ayentimi, John Burgess, Kantha DayaramUsing an institutionalist perspective, and through a case study analysis, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether subsidiaries of MNEs demonstrate a convergence across…
Lay off employees or terminate consultant contracts? Responses to an external shock in three firms in the Norwegian petroleum industry
Anna Paula Fijalkowska, Karina Sofie Hjartåker, Torstein NesheimPrevious studies on non-standard employment relations have analyzed how firms’ use of non-standard work arrangements are explained by variables related to numerical flexibility…
Mentoring in international assignments: a personality traits perspective
Tassilo Schuster, Judith Ambrosius, Benjamin BaderThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of personality and mentorship on expatriates’ psychological well-being. The authors argue that certain personality traits…
What a difference a role makes: Occupational and organizational characteristics related to the HR strategic role among human resource managers
Ronit Nadiv, Aviad Raz, Shani KunaBased on the human resources (HR) role framework (Conner and Ulrich, 1996), the purpose of this paper is to empirically explore why HR practitioners differ in their strategic…
Trust, job satisfaction, perceived organizational performance and turnover intention: A public-private sector comparison in the United Arab Emirates
Rachid Zeffane, Shaker Jamal Bani MelhemThe purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the differential impacts of job satisfaction (JS), trust (T), and perceived organizational performance (POP) on turnover…
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