Employee Relations: Volume 45 Issue 3

Organization culture types and the replication of transferred human resource management practices in multinational subsidiaries in Nigeria

Raphael Oriaghe Oseghale, Dennis Pepple, Simeon Emezana Ifere, Amarachi Ngozi Amaugo

Given that institutional and cultural factors affect the transfer of HRM practices between multinational companies (MNCs) and their subsidiaries, the paper set out to investigate…

Organizational leisure benefits – a resource to facilitate employees’ work-life balance?

Claudia Strassburger, Felix Wachholz, Mike Peters, Martin Schnitzer, Cornelia Blank

Using the job demands-resources (JD-R) model as a theoretical foundation, this study aims to explore the potential of organizational leisure benefit programs in the interplay of…

Matchmaking under uncertainty: how hiring criteria and requirements in professional work are co-created

Gerbrand Tholen

The aim of the study is to understand how the hiring process develops in cases where there are no explicit or formal requirements. How do implicit and informal criteria and…

Voicing perceptions of local job seekers and employees toward workforce nationalization and employment

Tamer H. Elsharnouby, Heba Younis, Said Elbanna, Nasrina Mauji

This study explores local Qatari job seekers' and employees' perceptions of the workforce nationalization strategy to address an inadequacy in the workforce nationalization…

Making the ethical case for effective domestic abuse policy and practice: the role of trade unions

Tony Bennett, Gemma Wibberley

This paper focusses on the role of trade unions in policy and practice designed to address the workplace impact of domestic abuse. The paper aims to examine this union remit…

The effects of transformational leadership and HRM practices on employee outcomes and productivity in the Greek hospitality industry during COVID-19

Panagiotis V. Kloutsiniotis, Dimitrios M. Mihail, Silouani Gounioti

The present study investigates the role of “Transformational Leadership (TFL)” on employees' work engagement and its effect on their “Productivity” and “Extra-Role Customer…

Smart working as an organisational process or as a social change? An Italian pandemic experience

Donato Morea, Gianpaolo Basile, Isabella Bonacci, Andrea Mazzitelli

Along the coronavirus pandemic, huge business challenges are facing as a result of collapsing customer demand and organisational significant changes supported by digital…

Dependent self-employed individuals: are they different from paid employees?

Ondřej Dvouletý, Dagmara Nikulin

This study focusses on dependent self-employment, which covers a situation where a person works for the same employer as a typical worker whilst on a self-employment contractual…

Why do firms adopt collective incentives? An analysis of family and non-family firms

Meysam Salimi, Edoardo Della Torre, Raffaele Miniaci

By combining structural contingency theory and socio-emotional wealth (SEW) theory, this study aims to identify the organizational determinants of collective performance-related…

Motivational cultural intelligence and well-being in cross-cultural workplaces: a study of migrant workers in Taiwan

Conna Yang

This study sought to advance understandings of migrant worker labor outcomes by examining (1) the relationship between migrant employees’ motivational cultural intelligence (CQ…

How do young employees perceive stress and job engagement while working from home? Evidence from a telecom operator during COVID-19

Karen Modesta Olsen, Jarle Hildrum, Kamilla Kummen, Caroline Leirdal

The study examines the extent to which job demands and resources are related to job stress and engagement among young employees exposed to remote work. The study draws on the job…

How discretionary HR practices influence employee job satisfaction: the mediating role of job crafting

Emre Burak Ekmekcioglu, Hamidah Nabawanuka

This study aims to examine the relationship between discretionary human resource (HR) practices and job satisfaction, as well as the mediating role of job crafting in the…