International Journal of Manpower: Volume 43 Issue 4

Linking paternalistic leadership to work engagement among Chinese expatriates: a job demand-resource perspective

Guohua He, Yanfei Wang, Xinnian Zheng, Zisheng Guo, Yu Zhu

This study explores how paternalistic leadership (PL) influences Chinese expatriates' work engagement in a cross-cultural context, and examines how expatriates' cross-cultural…

4.0 digital transition and human capital: evidence from the Italian Fintech market

Filomena Izzo, Viktoriia Tomnyuk, Rosaria Lombardo

In the intellectual capital literature, no studies have examined the causal relationship between Italian Fintech companies' performance and intellectual capital, especially the…

The impact of exporting on women's employment

Begum Dikilitas, Burcu Fazlioglu, Basak Dalgic

This paper aims to examine the effect of exports on women's employment rate for Turkish manufacturing firms over a recent period of 2003–2015.

The impact of training on productivity and wages in Tunisia

Naouel Ben Jemaa Cherif

The 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 employers…

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 Özdaş

Unemployment can negatively affect individuals, their families and communities in various ways. When individuals are out of work may experience mental and physical health…

Enhancing virtual team performance via high-quality interpersonal relationships: effects of authentic leadership

Yinxuan Zhang, Ruonan Zhao, Xuan Yu

Based on path–goal theory and social learning theory, this research is aimed at investigating how authentic leadership can influence team performance in virtual teams…

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 Nipo

International assignments are an effective tool to develop employees' cultural competencies, yet expatriate failure rates remain high. This paper aims to examine salient…

Preliminary development and validation of the perceived strengths-based human resource system scale

He Ding, Enhai Yu, Shenghua Xu

The 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 system…

Transformational leadership and employees' helping and innovative behaviors: contextual influences of organizational justice

Jae Young Lim, Kuk-Kyoung Moon

This article explores whether transformational leadership (TFL) influences individuals' extra-role behaviors, specifically helping and innovative behaviors. More importantly, it…

The labour market impact of COVID-19: early evidence for a sample of enterprises from Southern Europe

Allan Webster, Sangeeta Khorana, Francesco Pastore

The 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 elsewhere in…