Personnel Review: Volume 32 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Time and management

John Leopold, Luchien Karsten

Introduces the special issue on time and management which draws together analyses of these issues from across the European Union.

Time and management: the need for hora management

Luchien Karsten, John Leopold

Working time patterns are moving away from the traditional pattern of regularity, standardisation and co‐ordination to a new triptych of individualism, heterogeneity and…

Home‐based teleworking and the employment relationship: Managerial challenges and dilemmas

Lynette Harris

As home‐based teleworking grows in the UK, more evidence is needed of how working from home shapes the employment relationship and the implications this may have for those line…

The times and temporalities of home‐based telework

Susanne Tietze, Gill Musson

Drawing on an empirical investigation situated in 25 households of professional managers, who worked regularly at home, this article explores how internalised time discipline is…

Family‐friendly policies in The Netherlands: The tripartite involvement

Chantal Remery, Anneke van Doorne‐Huiskes, Joop Schippers

The article reports on research among Dutch employers concerning the arrangements they provide for employees to help them with the reconciliation of work and family life. The…

Dealing with part‐time work

Bastiaan W. Rosendaal

This paper examines the relationship between the length of the working week and the performance of employees. It looks at the influence of job features like knowledge intensity…

The management of trust‐based working time in Germany

Ingo Singe, Richard Croucher

New developments in trust‐based working time systems (i.e. systems whereby managers formally devolve their responsibilities for monitoring working time) in Germany are examined. A…

The 35‐hour week in France: the French exception?

David Alis

The 1980s and 1990s were periods of far‐reaching transformations in working hours and flexibility in Europe. Usually those initiatives came from the social partners. Yet France…

Trends in Organizational Behavior Vol 8: Employee versus Owner Issues in Organizations

Kevin M. Morrell