Employee Relations: Volume 44 Issue 6

The impact of exclusivity in talent identification: sources of perceived injustice and employee reactions

Jonathan Peterson, Loubna Tahssain-Gay, Benraiss-Noailles Laila

This paper examines antecedents to perceived injustice in exclusive talent identification practices.

Work–life balance indicators and talent management approach: a qualitative investigation of Indian luxury hotels

Sunil Budhiraja, Biju Varkkey, Stephen McKenna

The purpose of the study is twofold: (1) it captures the work–life balance (WLB) experiences of front-office employees to inductively classify a set of WLB indicators for the…

Are older applicants less likely to be invited to a job interview? – an experimental study on ageism

Éva Berde, Mánuel László Mágó

The main goal of this paper is to test whether older Hungarian women face age discrimination in the job market. The theoretical framework of this paper measures the level of…

Flexible working in the public sector – a case of inflexibility: senior managers' experiences

Joan Amanda Ballantine, Tony Wall, Anne Marie Ward

The public sector is often considered the vanguard in terms of the availability and promotion of flexible working arrangements (FWAs). Despite this, little is known about how…

How simulated home influences Chinese expatriates: the partial mediating role of organizational embeddedness and organizational identification

Hao Huang, Hong Liu, Xingguang Zhao, Hanrong He, Yusen Ding

The purpose of this research study is to explore the influence of perceived organizational support (POS) on organizational embeddedness and organizational identification in the…

COVID-19 challenges and employees' stress: mediating role of family-life disturbance and work-life imbalance

Subhash C. Kundu, Prerna Tuteja, Purnima Chahar

The paper focuses on examining the relationship between challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic and employees' stress through the mediating role of family-life disturbance and…

Collective turnover and unit performance: moderation effects of work experience and time clustering of quits

Cristina Simón, Jason D. Shaw, Isabel de Sivatte, Ricardo Olmos Albacete

The authors propose and test these boundary conditions to the relationship between voluntary collective turnover and unit performance: job and organizational tenure and the time…

Workplace spirituality and innovative work behavior: the role of employee flourishing and workplace satisfaction

William D. Hunsaker, Wenjing Ding

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of employee flourishing as a mechanism to explain the relationship between workplace spirituality and employees' innovative work…

The threshold effect of commitment-oriented HRM practices on employee job performance: the role of employee age

Mingchuan Yu, Qianying Jiao, Greg G. Wang, Yuan Liu

To reconcile the mixed findings on commitment-oriented human resource management (HRM) on employee job performance, this study tests whether commitment-oriented HRM has a…

The dual pressures of youth and expansion: revisiting stage theories of growth in SMEs

Adrian Wilkinson, Olav Muurlink, Keith Townsend, David Peetz

The authors consider stage theories of human resource management (HRM) to explore how new companies experiencing high levels of growth face the dual pressures of youth and…

Going forward: remote working in the post-COVID-19 era

Olatunji David Adekoya, Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Opeoluwa Aiyenitaju

The urgent and unexpected transition to remote working during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic calls for an increased focus on the contemporary workplace…

The effect of high-performance work systems on risk-taking and organizational citizenship behaviors: the mediating role of perceived safety climate

Mohammed Aboramadan, Yasir Mansoor Kundi, Eissa Elhamalawy, Belal Albashiti

Building on the social exchange theory and the norm of reciprocity, this study examines the effect of high-performance work systems (HPWS) during the COVID-19 pandemic on…

Exploring secrecy in pay communication: a conceptual matrix

Sarah Holtzen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that clarifies the construct of pay secrecy.

How can the work environment be redesigned to enhance the well-being of individuals with autism?

Michał T. Tomczak

This article examines the opportunities to create optimal conditions for individuals with autism, to work successfully within the contemporary workplace and improve their…

Are bargaining concessions inevitable in recessions? An empirical investigation into union bargaining priorities and trade-offs of pay rises for job security

Danat Valizade, Hugh Cook, Christopher Forde, Robert MacKenzie

This paper examines the extent of bargaining concessions in recession through investigating the effects of union bargaining on pay, job security and workforce composition.

Total expenses for managerial remuneration in foreign manufacturing subsidiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot exploration of applied policies

Igor Gurkov

This study aimed to reveal the policies applied to determine the total expenses for managerial remuneration in manufacturing subsidiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A squeezed lemon or an appetizing olive? Exploring expatriate and repatriate talent management

Reimara Valk

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Global Talent Management (GTM) approaches and praxis with a specific focus on global deployment goal congruence and alignment between…