International Journal of Manpower
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Human vs technology: a cross-cultural comparison of HR professionals' perceptions
Konstantinos Mantzaris, Barbara MyloniThis quantitative study seeks to explore HR professionals' perceptions regarding the adoption of technological applications under the fourth industrial revolution on 25…
Personal attributes and job resources as determinants of amount of work done under work-from-home: empirical study of Indian white-collar employees
Navya Kumar, Swati Alok, Sudatta BanerjeeEven after COVID-19 pandemic, several organizations intend extending work-from-home (WFH), to the extent of making it permanent for many. However, WFH's impact on…
Disentangling employees' passion and work-related outcomes through the lens of cross-cultural examination: a two-wave empirical study
Khalid Mehmood, Fauzia Jabeen, Khadija Ibrahim Salim Al Hammadi, Asma Al Hammadi, Yaser Iftikhar, Moza Tahnoon AlNahyanDrawing on the self-determination theory, this cross-cultural study aims to examine the associations between the dualistic framework of work passion and work outcomes (job…
Unlocking the mask: how respectful engagement enhances tacit knowledge sharing among organizational members
Ibeawuchi K. Enwereuzor, Lawrence E. Ugwu, Leonard I. UgwuDespite the importance of knowledge sharing (KS), organizations find it difficult to motivate their employees to share their knowledge with co-workers. Based on a…
Does working while studying affect education mismatch among youth? Evidence from Zambia
Chitalu Miriam Chama-Chiliba, Mwimba Chewe, Kelvin Chileshe, Hilary Chilala Hazele, Abdelkrim AraarThis paper aims to study the relationship between working while studying in college/university and education mismatch among employed youth in the Zambian labour market.
The effects of minimum wages over the business cycle: the Great Recession
Oudom Hean, Nanxin DengThis paper examines disemployment effects of minimum wages during the period 2002–2010.
High-performance work system and knowledge hoarding: the mediating role of competitive climate and the moderating role of high-performance work system psychological contract breach
Phuong Tran HuyHigh-performance work system (HPWS) has been verified as a promoter of both organizational and individual outcomes. However, this research takes the conflicting view of…
Early career gender wage gaps among university graduates in Russia
Victor Rudakov, Margarita Kiryushina, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro Nuno TeixeiraThe aim of the research is to estimate the level of the early career gender wage gap in Russia, its evolution during the early stages of a career, gender segregation and…
Young entrepreneurs and skills mismatch in school-to-work transition: empirical evidence from innovation processes managed in Italian NTBFs
Diego MatricanoDiversity in entrepreneurship has become a noteworthy topic of research since consistent differences – and few similarities, if any – exist among entrepreneurial profiles…
Expatriate adjustment and subsidiary performance: a motivation-hygiene perspective
Sihong Wu, Di Fan, Anaiya Jeetendra DabasiaDrawing on Herzberg's motivation-hygiene perspective, this study examines the factors affecting expatriate adjustment and the relationship between expatriate adjustment…
Sometimes it works: the effect of a reform of the short vocational track on school-to-work transition
Simona Lorena Comi, Mara Grasseni, Federica OrigoThe purpose of this paper is to use the two-way fixed effect (TWFE) methodology to estimate the impact of the reform, exploiting its staggered implementation across…
Exploring how social capital and self-esteem shape career success among women in a patriarchal African society: the case of Nigeria
Benedict Ogbemudia Imhanrenialena, Ogohi Daniel Cross, Wilson Ebhotemhen, Benjamin Ibe Chukwu, Ejike Sebastian OforkansiThe purpose of this research is to investigate how bridging and bonding social capital relate to career success among career women in a patriarchal African society…
Evaluating hiring incentives: evidence from Italian firms
Irene Brunetti, Enrica Maria Martino, Andrea RicciThis paper analyses the effect of a particular Active Labour Market Policy, the hiring incentives, on firms hiring policies. The effects of a programme on firms' behaviour…
Active political engagement, political patronage and local labour markets – The example of Shkoder
Elvisa Drishti, Bresena Kopliku, Drini ImamiThis paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the effects of active political engagement in port-of-entry jobs and employment pathways for graduate students in a…
How does training boost employees' intention to implement environmental activities? An empirical study in Vietnam
Nhat Tan Pham, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Muhammad Usman, Moazzam Ali, Hoang-Long PhanDrawing on the conservation of resources theory, this study aims to apply a mixed-method to enrich the literature by investigating interrelationships among training…
A human resources analytics and machine-learning examination of turnover: implications for theory and practice
Dan Avrahami, Dana Pessach, Gonen Singer, Hila Chalutz Ben-GalWhat do antecedents of turnover tell us when examined using human resources (HR) analytics and machine-learning tools, and what are the respective theoretical and…
Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders: an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco PastoreThe wage effect of job–education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely…
Achieve a better shape of life: how entrepreneurship gears up life-time well-being
Jinyi Zhou, Jong Gyu Park, Yawen LiAn anomaly of entrepreneurship literature was that, despite serious efforts required to manage a business, few studies had investigated entrepreneurs' health conditions at…
Green HRM: pathway towards environmental sustainability using AHP and FAHP in a nascent parsimony
Aaisha Khatoon, Nawab Ali Khan, Farhana Parvin, Mohammad Salman Wahid, Mohd Tariq Jamal, Saad AzharThe objective of the work is to have an insight into the degree of the contemporary concept of greening the organization through human resource management (HRM) and to…
The effect of social network sites usage on absenteeism and labor outcomes: longitudinal evidence
Jie ChenThe purpose of this paper is multifold. First, it is to investigate the relationship between social network sites (SNSs) usage and youth's school absenteeism. Second, it…
Productivity and job reallocation: evidence from the Indian manufacturing
Diti GoswamiThis study aims to examine the association between productivity growth and job reallocation in terms of job creation and job destruction. It also finds this productivity…
Desired and obtained work values across 37 countries: a psychology of working theory perspective
Lisa E. Baranik, Natalie Wright, Rachel W. SmithMany contemporary career theories emphasize the role of individual agency and choice, a perspective that may not be relevant for the careers of underprivileged groups…
Do labour hoarding practices stimulate training investments? Evidence from the Italian Great Recession
Giulio PedriniThis paper investigates the relationship between labour hoarding practices and training investments during severe economic downturns focusing on the case of Italy during…
The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: a regression discontinuity analysis
Meltem Dayioglu, Müşerref Küçükbayrak, Semih TumenUsing a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, the study finds that increasing the minimum wage reduces the employment…
Impact of labour unrest and skilled workforce in host country on inflow of foreign direct investment – a case of Taiwan, ROC
Yu-Cheng Lai, Santanu SarkarIn this paper, the authors examined the changes in labour unrest and labour quality brought by high labour standards over a considerable period in Taiwan. Then, the…
The emotional and social side of analytics professionals: an exploratory study of the behavioral profile of data scientists and data analysts
Sara Bonesso, Fabrizio Gerli, Elena BruniAnalytics technologies are profoundly changing the way in which organizations generate economic and social value from data. Consequently, the professional roles of data…
COVID-19 impact on job losses in Portugal: who are the hardest-hit?
Ana Sofia Lopes, Pedro CarreiraThe COVID-19 pandemic caused job losses to rise dramatically. Herein, the purpose of the article is to identify which personal and job characteristics make individuals…
Community norms and corporate philanthropy: the moderating role of women on board of directors
Xin Wang, Zhe Zhang, Ming JiaThis study examines how community norms, such as religious atmosphere and economic pressures, affect corporate philanthropic giving. Grounded in upper echelon theory, the…
Drop-out, stop-out or prolong? The effect of COVID-19 on students' choices
Dasa Farcnik, Polona Domadenik Muren, Valentina FrancaThe aim of the paper is to identify the causal effect of the COVID-19 induced crisis on students' decisions about their educational plans. The authors hypothesise that…
Returns to formal and informal vocational education and training in India
Shweta Bahl, Vasavi Bhatt, Ajay SharmaIn the process of school-to-work transition, the role of general education and vocational education and training (VET) remains quite central. Based on the human capital…
Antecedent and employee well-being outcomes of perceived benefits schemes: a two-wave study
Qijie Xiao, Fang Lee Cooke, Felix Mavondo, Greg J. BamberThe purpose of the research is to examine the antecedent and employee well-being outcomes of employees' perceptions of benefits schemes.
Informal employment and wages in Poland
Jacek LiwińskiThis paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland.
Attitudes of employees in green companies regarding CSR communication
Helen LaVan, Ivana Zilic, Sahana BasappaThe purpose of this study is to discern how the Best Green companies, as identified by Newsweek, communicate about green jobs within their companies.
The wage effects of overeducation across overall wage distribution on university graduates: incidence, heterogeneity and comparison
Hongye Sun, Giseung KimThis study aims to investigate the extent to which overeducation imposes wage effects on university graduates, taking into account the individual heterogeneity due to…
How and when high-involvement work practices influence employee innovative behavior
Zhining Wang, Tao Cui, Shaohan Cai, Shuang RenBased on social information processing (SIP) theory, this study explores the cross-level effect of high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) on employee innovative behavior…
Youth labor market vulnerabilities: evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia
Shireen Alazzawi, Vladimir HlasnyThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of employment vulnerability among youth in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, and their propensity to…
Unemployment and its scarring effect on wages in Germany: evidence from linked employer-employee data
Oskar JostAssess and compare scarring effects of unemployment in Germany to other countries and to consider firm heterogeneity.
Home, work or both? The role of paradox mindset in a remote work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ronit NadivWhy did some individuals have relatively little trouble balancing work and home demands during the COVID-19 lockdown, while others felt overwhelmed? Although ample studies…
Employability of job applicants in skilful jobs: commonality in employer and employee perspectives
Abdullah Murrar, Madan Batra, Veronica Paz, Bara Asfour, Marouane BalmakhtarThe purpose of this research is to explore the employer and employee perspectives about the employability skills of skilful jobs. The research is conducted in a…
Voluntary part-time and mandatory full-time telecommuting: a comparative longitudinal analysis of the impact of managerial, work and individual characteristics on job performance
Mohd Tariq Jamal, Imran Anwar, Nawab Ali KhanBased on self-determination theory (SDT), the present study aims to assess the effect of managerial (manager trust and support), work (job autonomy) and individual…
Psychological mechanism linking green human resource management to green behavior
Jing Ye, Xufan Zhang, Lulu Zhou, Decai Wang, Feng TianThe purpose of this paper is to explore the psychological mechanism linking green human resource management (GHRM) to the in-role and extra-role green behavior of new employees.
Identifying the factors of internal green marketing: a scale development and psychometric evaluation approach
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Danish MehrajThe purpose of this paper is to perform a psychometric evaluation of the internal green marketing (IGM) scale in the context of consumer, industrial and service industry…
The duration of the school-to-work transition in Italy and in other European countries: a flexible baseline hazard interpretation
Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella RoccaThe Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. We analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case…
Green HRM promotes higher education sustainability: a mediated-moderated analysis
Zuhair Abbas, Shagufta Sarwar, Mohsin Abdur Rehman, Roman Zámečník, Muhammad ShoaibIn the contemporary world, where sustainability at higher education is at the forefront, the ever-changing business ecosystem nurtures a new drift towards economic…
Chinese entrepreneurs and workers at the crossroad: the role of social networks in ethnic industrial clusters in Italy
Mario Biggeri, Lisa Braito, Annalisa Caloffi, Huanhuai ZhouThis paper aims to analyse the evolution of Chinese industrial ethnic clusters in Italy, by focusing on the role of social networks and the processes behind the phenomenon…
Management innovation: the influence of institutional pressures and the impact on competitive advantage
Salha Alshumrani, Kevin Baird, Rahat MunirDrawing on DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) perspective of institutional theory, this study examines the influence of institutional pressures on the adoption of management…
The impact of exporting on women's employment
Begum Dikilitas, Burcu Fazlioglu, Basak DalgicThis paper aims to examine the effect of exports on women's employment rate for Turkish manufacturing firms over a recent period of 2003–2015.
Preliminary development and validation of the perceived strengths-based human resource system scale
He Ding, Enhai Yu, Shenghua XuThe purpose of the current article was to propose the strengths-based human resource (HR) system construct as well as develop and validate the perceived strengths-based HR…
A data set of comparable estimates of the private rate of return to schooling in the world, 1970–2014
Claudio E. Montenegro, Harry Anthony PatrinosYoung people experience lower employment, income and participation rates, as well as higher unemployment, compared to adults. Theory predicts that people respond to labor…
The effect of unemployment benefits on health and living standards in Turkey: evidence from structural equation modelling and regression discontinuity design
Eleftherios Giovanis, Oznur Ozdamar, Burcu ÖzdaşUnemployment can negatively affect individuals, their families and communities in various ways. When individuals are out of work may experience mental and physical health…
Improving the school-to-work transition for young people by closing the digital divide: evidence from the EU regions
Monica Raileanu Szeles, Mihaela SimionescuThe paper aims to provide comparative empirical evidence on young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET-youth) under the influence of the…
Pathway toward environmental sustainability: mediating role of corporate social responsibility in green human resource management practices in small and medium enterprises
Jun Wen, Hadi Hussain, Junaid Waheed, Waheed Ali, Ihsan JamilRecent research validates an increasing knowledge of environmental concerns in manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). However, only a few studies maintain that…
Green intellectual capital, green HRM and green social identity toward sustainable environment: a new integrated framework for Islamic banks
Muhammad Ali, Chin-Hong Puah, Anum Ali, Syed Ali Raza, Norazirah AyobThe role of green human resource management in Islamic banking remains relatively unexplored. This study focuses on how green human resource management plays a part using…
Gender pay gap in explaining female entrepreneurship – industry perspective of selected European countries
Aleksandra Gaweł, Katarzyna Mroczek-DąbrowskaAlthough several theoretical concepts imply different determinants of female entrepreneurship, the literature lacks a consensus on their significance. The aim of this…
Implications of GHRM on organisational citizenship behaviour: the mediating role of enablers of green culture
Paul Kivinda Muisyo, Su Qin, Thu Hau Ho, Mercy Muthoni Julius, Tsirinirinantenaina Barisoava AndriamandresyThe purpose of this research is to examine how firms can build collective organisational citizenship behaviour towards the environment (OCBE) from green human resource…
Enhancing virtual team performance via high-quality interpersonal relationships: effects of authentic leadership
Yinxuan Zhang, Ruonan Zhao, Xuan YuBased on path–goal theory and social learning theory, this research is aimed at investigating how authentic leadership can influence team performance in virtual teams…
Green human resource management and green organizational citizenship behavior: do green culture and green values matter?
Lai Wan Hooi, Min-Shi Liu, Joe J.J. LinDrawing on the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) theory, this study aims to test the effect of green human resource management (G-HRM) on green organizational…
Impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment: evidence from OIC countries
Sajid Ali, Zulkornain Yusop, Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan, Lee Chin, Muhammad Saeed MeoThis study examines the impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment in various income groups of Organization…
Green HRM and nongreen outcomes: the mediating role of visionary leadership in Asia
Hussein Ismail, Miriam El Irani, Kevin Sevag KertechianThe main purpose of this study was to test whether green human resource management (GHRM) practices affect employee nongreen outcomes through the mediation of perceived…
No expatriate is an island: the role of salient stakeholders' support in international assignments
Hak Liong Chan, Dahlia Zawawi, Siew Imm Ng, Debbra Toria Anak NipoInternational assignments are an effective tool to develop employees' cultural competencies, yet expatriate failure rates remain high. This paper aims to examine salient…
Green human resource management, leader–member exchange, core self-evaluations and work engagement: the mediating role of human resource management performance attributions
Gabriel C.W. Gim, Say Keat Ooi, Siau Teng Teoh, Hui Ling Lim, Jasmine A.L. YeapSustainable development concern, coupled with changes in the talent landscape, has led to a heightened focus on green human resource management (GHRM). Drawing on…
Female directors’ monitoring and earnings quality: the moderating effect of political connections and family ownership
Chwee Ming Tee, Jeyapalan KasipillaiThis study aims to examine whether the monitoring effectiveness of female directors in corporate boards is moderated by political connections and family ownership.
Transition to work, mismatch and underemployment among graduates: an Australian longitudinal study
Denise Jackson, Ian LiThere are ongoing concerns regarding university degree credentials leading to graduate-level employment. Tracking graduate underemployment is complicated by inconsistent…
The impact of training on productivity and wages in Tunisia
Naouel Ben Jemaa CherifThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of training on labor productivity and wages in order to examine how the benefits from training are shared between…
Linking paternalistic leadership to work engagement among Chinese expatriates: a job demand-resource perspective
Guohua He, Yanfei Wang, Xinnian Zheng, Zisheng Guo, Yu ZhuThis study explores how paternalistic leadership (PL) influences Chinese expatriates' work engagement in a cross-cultural context, and examines how expatriates'…
Transformational leadership and employees' helping and innovative behaviors: contextual influences of organizational justice
Jae Young Lim, Kuk-Kyoung MoonThis article explores whether transformational leadership (TFL) influences individuals' extra-role behaviors, specifically helping and innovative behaviors. More…
4.0 digital transition and human capital: evidence from the Italian Fintech market
Filomena Izzo, Viktoriia Tomnyuk, Rosaria LombardoIn the intellectual capital literature, no studies have examined the causal relationship between Italian Fintech companies' performance and intellectual capital…
The labour market impact of COVID-19: early evidence for a sample of enterprises from Southern Europe
Allan Webster, Sangeeta Khorana, Francesco PastoreThe choice of Southern Europe is partly based on the observation that the sample includes a number of countries whose economies faced more severe difficulties than…
Exploring the impact of green human resource management on environmental performance: the roles of perceived organizational support and innovative environmental behavior
Sabeen Hussain Bhatti, Farida Saleem, Ghulam Murtaza, Tazeem Ul HaqThis paper aims to explore the relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) practices and the environmental performance (EP) of firms belonging to…
Environmentally specific transformational leadership and green product development performance: the role of a green HRM system
Jiaqi Yan, Wenan HuGreen product development is a pivotal way to achieve environmental sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to theorize and empirically test how environmentally…
How GHRM is related to green creativity? A moderated mediation model of green transformational leadership and green perceived organizational support
Zahid Hameed, Rana Muhammad Naeem, Marria Hassan, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Nazim, Adnan MaqboolThis study aims to examine the relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) practices and green transformational leadership toward inducing employees' green…
To what extent are ageist attitudes among employers translated into discriminatory practices: The case of Denmark
Per H. Jensen, Wouter De Tavernier, Peter NielsenThe purpose of this paper is to address four interrelated questions: what is the prevalence of ageism amongst employers? What are the factors conditioning employers’ age…
Research trends in human resource management. A text-mining-based literature review
Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Sławomir Wawak, Małgorzata Tyrańska, Małgorzata Zakrzewska, Szymon Jarosz, Mariusz SołtysikThe purpose of the study was to detect trends in human resource management (HRM) research presented in journals during the 2000–2020 timeframe. The research question is…
University to work transition: a literature review
Filomena Izzo, Stefania Mele, Mario MustilliThis article aims to describe the role universities should play in student to work transition.
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