Employee Relations: Volume 27 Issue 5

Antecedents and consequences of organisational silence: an empirical investigation

Maria Vakola, Dimitris Bouradas

Although the phenomenon of organisational silence is widely seen in organisations, there is little empirical evidence regarding its nature and main components. This paper aims at…

Forcing German managers to focus on productivity

Thomas Klikauer

Aims to test Walton and McKersie’s theory on labour negotiations, specifically in the case of German car manufacturers.

Investigating work‐family policy aims and employee experiences

Paula McDonald, Diane Guthrie, Lisa Bradley, Jane Shakespeare‐Finch

This study seeks systematically to investigate the extent to which the documented aims of formal work‐family policies are being achieved at the level of individual employees.

Post‐merger psychological contracts: exploring a “multiple foci” conceptualization

Michelle C. Bligh, Melissa K. Carsten

Previous research on psychological contracts has assumed that managers play a unidimensional role as either a contractual agent or an employee of the organization. These…

Decision of union workers to participate in employee involvement: an application of the theory of planned behaviour

Cedric E. Dawkins, John W. Frass

The purpose of this paper is to test the ability of the theory of planned behaviour to predict worker intent towards an employee involvement (EI) programme, and the impact of…

Dilute to taste? The impact of the working time regulations in the hospitality industry

Scott A. Hurrell

To investigate the impact of the working time regulations (WTR) in the hospitality industry and dynamics of the employment relationship within the case study firms.