Employee Relations: Volume 37 Issue 2

Immigrants and natives at work: exposure to workplace bullying

Barbara Bergbom, Maarit Vartia-Vaananen, Ulla Kinnunen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether immigrants, when in the minority, are more exposed to bullying at work than natives, and whether immigrants’ cultural distance…

Post M&A ill-health: Main, moderating and mediating effects of job stressors and perceived organizational support

Eleni Makri, Filotheos Ntalianis

The current financial crisis in Greece has redefined the way organizations operate resulting in a dramatic increase in mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The purpose of this paper…

To what extent a “bad” job? Employee perceptions of job quality in community aged care

Marilyn Clarke

– The purpose of this paper is to explore how community aged care workers evaluate job quality using a job quality framework.

How do high performance work systems influence organizational innovation in professional service firms?

Na Fu, Patrick C. Flood, Janine Bosak, Tim Morris, Philip O'Regan

The purpose of this paper is to examine how a system of human resource management (HRM) practices, labelled high-performance work systems (HPWS), influences organizational…

What is exchanged in psychological contracts? Multiple sets of obligations, targeted effort and uncertainty reduction

John Rodwell, Julia Ellershaw

The purpose of this paper is to explore the currency underlying the employment relationship of allied health workers by investigating the mechanisms of their psychological…

Workplace fun matters … but what else?

Michael J. Tews, John Michel, Shi Xu, Alex J. Drost

The purpose of this paper is to extend research on fun in the workplace by focussing on its relationship with job embeddedness among Millennials. This research examined the…

Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession: Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study

Rebecca Jane Stirzaker