Employee Relations: Volume 42 Issue 5

Editorial

Kunle Akingbola, Alina Baluch, Carol Brunt, Ian Cunningham

Research in nonprofit human resource management from 2015 to 2018: Trends, insights, and opportunities

Elizabeth A. Cooper, Aimee DuVall Phelps, Sean Edmund Rogers

This paper systematically reviews the past four years of research on human resource management (HRM) in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) to better understand: (1) recent theoretical…

How NPM-inspired-change impacted work and HRM in the Irish voluntary sector in an era of austerity

Pauric P. O'Rourke

The purpose of this article is to explore how NPM influenced the Irish NPVCS and triggered changes in work and HRM at a time of austerity.

“I was never trained to do any of that” – personalisation and the impact of the “customer” on employment relations in voluntary sector social care

Doug Young

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent and impact of customer-oriented norms on employment relations in voluntary sector social care, within the context of…

Successful without profits: personal factors that affect performance in NPOs

Andreas Reinhardt, Susanne Enke

Studies on personal characteristics that influence managers' performance in their jobs and their ability to innovate focus mainly on for-profit organizations. We argue that…

Checks and balances? Leadership configurations and governance practices of NGOs in Chile

Daniel A. Diaz, Christopher J. Rees

The emergence of Governance practices in the non-governmental organisation (NGO) sector has become associated with increasingly high levels of organisational complexity. In the…