Employee Relations: Volume 36 Issue 5

Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees

Kirsteen Grant, Gillian Maxwell, Susan Ogden

– The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically manager and employee views on employees’ skills utilisation in organisations in Scotland.

An investigation into hospitality cruise ship work through the exploration of metaphors

Adam Dennett, Derek Cameron, Colin Bamford, Andrew Jenkins

The purpose of this paper is to investigate, through metaphor analysis, the complex nature of the work undertaken by waiters and pursers on-board cruise ships. This is an…

The role of mediation in the resolution of two industrial disputes in Ireland: Towards a theoretical understanding

Deirdre Curran

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of mediation on two long-running collective industrial disputes in Ireland using a theoretical framework established in the…

Multiple affective commitments: quitting intentions and job performance

Kristina Schoemmel, Thomas S. Jønsson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactions and the usefulness of distinguishing among employees’ affective commitments (ACs) to the job, to the department, and…

The impact of best HRM practices on performance – identifying enabling factors

Georgios N. Theriou, Prodromos Chatzoglou

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationships between best human resource management (HRM) practices, knowledge management (KM), organization learning and…

Employee loyalty and engagement in UAE public sector

Maha Ibrahim, Saoud Al Falasi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between employee loyalty (Organizational Commitment) and its two dimensions namely, affective commitment (AC) and…

LinkedIn and recruitment: how profiles differ across occupations

Julie Zide, Ben Elman, Comila Shahani-Denning

The purpose of this paper is to identify the elements of a LinkedIn profile that hiring professionals focus on most, and then examine LinkedIn profiles in terms of these…