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Publication date: 5 June 2017

Good employees through good jobs: A latent profile analysis of job types and employee outcomes in the Belgian electricity sector

Stan De Spiegelaere, Monique Ramioul and Guy Van Gyes

The purpose of this paper is to identify different job types in the Belgian electricity sector and their relations with employee outcomes such as work engagement and…

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to identify different job types in the Belgian electricity sector and their relations with employee outcomes such as work engagement and innovative work behaviour (IWB).

Design/methodology/approach

This paper uses a combination of latent profile analysis and relative operating characteristics (ROC) analysis.

Findings

Depending on the job resources and demands, five different job types are identified corresponding largely to the Karasek and Theorell (1990) job types. Their relation with the outcomes is not parallel with low-strain jobs performing best for work engagement, and active jobs for IWB.

Research limitations/implications

The combination of methods used in this study increases significantly the ease of communication of the findings, yet an external benchmark for the ROC analysis would be preferable.

Practical implications

To foster engagement and IWB with employees one should focus on the job content and only increase demands if they are combined with sufficient resources.

Originality/value

This research is the first in its kind that relates latent job types with different employee outcomes using a combination of latent profile and ROC analysis.

Details

Employee Relations, vol. 39 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-02-2016-0034
ISSN: 0142-5455

Keywords

  • Employee behaviour
  • Work engagement
  • Innovative work behaviour
  • Latent profile analysis

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Publication date: 7 October 2019

What is said in European Works Councils stays there: Confidentiality and how to cope with it

Lise Meylemans and Stan De Spiegelaere

The purpose of this paper is to study how employee representatives in European Works Councils (EWCs) treat confidential information and how such strategies might improve…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study how employee representatives in European Works Councils (EWCs) treat confidential information and how such strategies might improve the EWC functioning.

Design/methodology/approach

Building on interviews of several case studies of EWCs, this paper brings together insights from industrial relations and occupational psychology literature.

Findings

The results show that through actively challenging the management, an EWC can reduce the amount of information labelled as confidential and become freer to communicate with their rank and file. Actively challenging management, however, does not seem to impact the openness of the management to give early and complete information.

Research limitations/implications

The paper is based on several case studies, which limits the generalisability of the findings. The results, however, indicate that research is required on how challenging confidentiality can incite managements to provide earlier information.

Practical implications

The research show clearly the potential but also limitations for employee representatives in actively challenging the management over what information is confidential.

Social implications

This study studies a universally difficult topic for employee representatives: how to handle confidential information. The findings show that EWCs have little levers to force management to provide early information. For this, more structural change is needed.

Originality/value

This study is the first to focus exclusively on the issue of confidentiality in EWCs. This is a central concern for employee representatives, but research, until now, has not given much insight in which strategies work.

Details

Employee Relations: The International Journal, vol. 41 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-05-2018-0148
ISSN: 0142-5455

Keywords

  • Confidentiality
  • European Works Councils
  • Workers’ representatives
  • Information and consultation
  • Multinationals

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