Employee Relations: Volume 23 Issue 5

“Better” part‐time jobs?: A study of part‐time working in nursing and the police

Christine Y. Edwards, Olive Robinson

Part‐time working has been traditionally associated with poor quality, low skill jobs in the secondary labour market. Explores the expansion of part‐time work into skilled…

Developing a multiple foci conceptualization of the psychological contract

Abigail Marks

Suggests a way in which the psychological contract can be reconceptualized as a construct with multiple foci. Presents an argument for examining psychological contracts with…

Edging towards managing diversity in practice

Gillian A. Maxwell, Sharon Blair, Marilyn McDougall

Analyses the notion and value of managing diversity to establish its current theoretical positioning and potential organisational significance. Focuses on a recent case study…

Employee consultation

Malcolm Sargeant

Concerns the current and proposed mandatory requirements for employers to collectively consult those who work for them. Shows that the rhetoric in favour of consultation as a…

Shades of green: the greenfield concept in HRM

Suzanne Richbell, H. Doug Watts

Reviews the concept of a “greenfield site” within human resource management (HRM) and shows that the ways in which distance is conceptualised or measured in describing greenfield…