Employee Relations: Volume 42 Issue 4

Decent work: what matters most and who can make a difference?

Stephen Gibb, Mohammed Ishaq

What matters most for improving work quality and who can make a difference are perennial topics in employee relations research. The literature on work quality provides answers to…

Talent management and organizational commitment: the partial mediating role of pay satisfaction

Roberto Luna-Arocas, Ignacio Danvila-Del Valle, Francisco J. Lara

The purpose of this study is to better understand the role of pay satisfaction and employee perception of talent management in business loyalty strategies, which implies…

High-involvement HRM practices and innovative work behavior among production-line workers: mediating role of employee's functional flexibility

Muhammad Yasir, Abdul Majid

Following “AMO” framework and resource-based theory (RBT), the current study empirically examines the relationships between high-involvement human resource management (HI HRM…

How do human resource management practices affect employee well-being? A mediated moderation model

Xinggui Zhang, Zhibin Lin, Yizhu Liu, Xiao Chen, David Ming Liu

The study examines how human resource management practices (HRMPs) – including ability practice, motivation practice and opportunity practice – affect employee well-being (EWB) �…

The importance of digital literacy on the labour market

Predrag Bejaković, Željko Mrnjavac

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between digital skills and employment and in this way accentuate importance of policy interventions for improving digital…

Workplace fiddles in the shipping industry

Helen Devereux, Emma Wadsworth, Syamantak Bhattacharya

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which workers employ rule breaking, rule bending and deviations from management defined norms in the workplace and the impact…

High involvement work systems, happiness at work (HAW) and absorptive capacity: a bathtub study

Andrés Salas-Vallina, Manoli Pozo-Hidalgo, Pedro-Gil Monte

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of high-involvement work systems (HIWS) on absorptive capacity. In addition, the mediating effect of happiness at work in the…

The effects of market economy type on the training practice differences in the Central Eastern European region

Nemanja Berber, Agnes Slavic, Maja Strugar Jelača, Radmila Bjekić

The aim of this research is to investigate and detect determinants of the training practice and conspicuous differences in the sample of nine Central and Eastern European (CEE…

The experiences of work-life balance, stress, and coping lifestyles of female professionals: insights from a developing country

Babatunde Akanji, Chima Mordi, Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi

Given the limiting conditions of the gender roles confronting professional working women and drawing on spillover theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences…

Simulated home: an effective cross-cultural adjustment model for Chinese expatriates

Hao Huang, Hong Liu, Xin Huang, Yusen Ding

The purpose of this study is to explore the adjustment model of expatriates in overseas projects by studying two overseas projects of a Chinese state-owned enterprise.