Employee Relations: Volume 31 Issue 1

A new emerging trend? Cross border trade union mergers

John Gennard

The purpose of this editorial is to examine moves towards cross border trade union mergers.

Voluntary sector responses to increased resourcing challenges

Emma Parry, Clare Kelliher

Drug treatment services in the UK have recently undergone significant expansion, alongside the introduction of a set of quality standards, which included the management of people…

Ideals and practices in CSR identity making: the case of equal opportunities

Jakob Lauring, Christa Thomsen

The purpose of the paper is to report on a qualitative research illustrating how equal opportunity ideals as part of a corporate CSR identity project are practiced on the local…

A test of hypotheses derived from self‐determination theory among public sector employees

Bård Kuvaas

The purpose of this study was to test the relationship between intrinsic motivation and work performance among individuals from a broad cross‐section of job types among public…

Property in knowledge work: an appropriation‐learning perspective

Ashly H. Pinnington, Ken Kamoche, Yuliani Suseno

The aim of this paper is to understand the competitive and collaborative relations existing between people practising in the same professional occupation, but working within…

Attitudes, attributes and institutions: Determining job satisfaction in Central and Eastern Europe

Thomas Lange

This paper aims to contribute to the growing body of empirical evaluations of workers' subjective well being by assessing the impact of values, beliefs, important job attributes…

“Fee earner vs fee burner”: internal divides in law firms

Ingo Forstenlechner, Fiona Lettice, Markus Tschida

This article aims to explore and define the implications of the predominant divide in law firms between fee earners, i.e. lawyers contributing to law firm revenue, and support…