Employee Relations: Volume 39 Issue 2

Between hope and fear: developing social media guidelines

Michaël Opgenhaffen, An-Sofie Claeys

The purpose of this paper is to examine employers’ policy with regard to employees’ social media use. Specifically, the authors examine the extent to which employers allow the use…

Hollowing out national agreements in the NHS? The case of “Improving Working Lives” under a “Turnaround” plan

Ian Roper, David Etherington, Suzan Lewis

The purpose of this paper is to consider the resilience of a national-level initiative (Improving Working Lives (IWL)) in the face of local-level initiative (Turnaround) in an NHS…

Workforce diversity and organizational performance: a study of IT industry in India

Subhash C. Kundu, Archana Mor

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between employee perceptions of diversity (i.e. significance of diversity and diversity management, and value of diversity…

How do Party organizations’ boundary-spanning behaviors control worker unrest? A case study on a Chinese resource-based state-owned enterprise

Jingfu Lu, Min Li

The purpose of this paper is to understand the boundary-spanning behaviors of Party organizations, and the processes and constraints of these behaviors in controlling worker…

The relationship between management’s commitment and effective safety and health committees in Malaysia

Ummu Kolsome Farouk

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between management’s commitment and effective occupational safety and health committees (OSHCs), which are a form of…

Employability and job search behavior: A six-wave longitudinal study of Chinese university graduates

Xie Yizhong, Zhibin Lin, Yevhen Baranchenko, Chi Keung Lau, Andrey Yukhanaev, Hailing Lu

Graduate employability is a key concern for many observers particularly at a time when education is increasingly available for the masses. The purpose of this paper is to examine…

Never walk alone: achieving work performance through networking ability and autonomy

Torstein Nesheim, Karen Modesta Olsen, Alexander Madsen Sandvik

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between networking ability, autonomy and work performance.

Finding a Voice at Work? New Perspectives on Employment Relations

Eugene Hickland