Employee Relations: Volume 45 Issue 6

Influence of independent female directors on green commitment

Junkai Wang, Baolei Qi, Yaoxiang Nie

With increasing environmental issue and problems, this study aims to explore how the female directors' foreign experience and corporate green commitment in emerging economics like…

‘Tis the season: enhancing the workplace holiday party

Michael Tews, John Michel, Ethan Kudler, Sydney Pons

The annual holiday party is a long-standing tradition in many organizations, yet academic research has largely left the holiday party unexamined. The present study sheds light on…

The key role played by innovation in the talent management and organizational performance relationship

Roberto Luna-Arocas

The key aspect of this study is the mediating role of innovation in the relationship between talent management (TM) and organizational performance (OP).

Experiences lived by international nurses concerning professional integration and interpersonal relationships in the workplace: qualitative research

Ana Luiza Ferreira Aydogdu, Ulku Baykal

The recruitment of international nurses has been used for a long time to address the global nurse shortage. In 2012, the employment of international nurses was released in Turkey…

Exploring Indian working mothers' transition to involuntary telecommuting

Shahina Javad, Priyanka Nema, Nimit Chowdhary

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many working mothers in India adopted involuntary telecommuting work option for the first time. However, no research explored their adjustments and…

Talent retention challenges among non-family talented individuals: multiple case studies of family SMEs in Jordan

Mohammad Alzbaidi, Abdallah Abu Madi

This study explores the influence of Wasta, informal social network on the retention of non-family talented employees in family-owned SMEs in Jordan. Despite the increased…

Exploring the relationship between generational diversity and knowledge sharing: the moderating role of workplace intergenerational climate, boundary-spanning leadership and respect

Swati Hans, Abdul Mohammad Nayeem, Sitamma Mikkilineni, Ritu Gupta

The current article investigates the impact of generational diversity on knowledge sharing and group performance. It, further, explores the moderating effects of intergenerational…

Quantum accountability: when does enough become too much in top pay decision-making?

Susan Shortland, Stephen J. Perkins

The purpose of this paper is to examine how and why individuals involved in executive remuneration (top pay) decision-making consider quantum as being appropriate rather than…

The perceptions of diversity management and employee performance: UAE perspectives

Mohamed Osman Shereif Mahdi Abaker, Lindsey Kemp, Boo Yun Cho, Louise Patterson

The purpose of this article was to investigate the employee perceptions of diversity management and employee performance. To achieve this, employee respondents’ perceptions and…

Organization justice, knowledge sharing and employees' innovative behavior: evidence from the knowledge-intensive industry

Toan Khanh Tran Pham

Encouraging employees to display innovative behavior at the workplace is the need of all enterprises in this competitive era of the modern business environment. The study aims to…

Resistance exercise: competition, coopetition and collective action among self-employed personal trainers in the UK

Geraint Harvey, Jia Li, Daniel Wintersberger

The article explores the potential for self-employed personal trainers (SEPTs) to resist exploitation by gyms, with a focus on the attitudes of SEPTs towards trade unions and…

“Who am I? What am I doing?” The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on work identities

Mani Pillai

As every day work is central to people's lives and events serve as significant contextual factors, examining what impact the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic…

Trade unions and institutional power resources in the United Kingdom

Mike Rigby, Miguel Angel García Calavia

The paper examines the approach of United Kingdom (UK) Trade Unions to the use of institutional power resources (IPR) in the second half of the twentieth century.

What does the performance appraisal approach tell us about the organizational culture's basic assumptions?

Batia Ben-Hador

Performance appraisal (PA) is an organizational practice whose ultimate goal is to improve employee performance. This goal can be achieved using two approaches: the administrative…