Personnel Review: Volume 37 Issue 5

Employee agency: challenges and opportunities for psychological contract theory

Hannele Seeck, Marjo‐Riitta Parzefall

The purpose of this study is to examine what employee agency entails for psychological contract theory. The paper aims to explore how employee agency manifests itself, how it is…

Integrating realistic job previews and realistic living conditions previews: Realistic recruitment for internationally mobile knowledge workers

Julia Richardson, Ken McBey, Steve McKenna

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of realistic job previews (RJPs) and realistic living conditions previews (RLCPs) during the recruitment of a group of…

The moderating effect of organizational slack on the relation between perceptions of support for innovation and organizational climate

Antonia Ruiz‐Moreno, Víctor J. García‐Morales, Francisco Javier Llorens‐Montes

The goal of this paper is to examine how firms employ slack resources to enhance the relationship between organizational climate and perceptions of support for innovation to…

Becoming simultaneously thicker and thinner skinned: The inherent conflicts arising in the professional development of coaches

Erik de Haan

There is a hidden paradox inherent in the ideal of continuing professional development (CPD) for executive coaches, stemming from the fact that the coach wishes to retain or…

HR outsourcing: threat or opportunity?

Jeroen Delmotte, Luc Sels

The debate on human resource (HR) outsourcing is polarised. HR outsourcing is seen as an opportunity for the HR function by some and as a threat by others. The first view suggests…

Effects of team tenure and leadership in self‐managing teams

Janka I. Stoker

This study seeks to identify the relationship between leader behaviour and the effectiveness of the members of a self‐managing team (SMT) in terms of perceived individual…

Learning with Trade Unions: A Contemporary Agenda in Employment Relations

Joanna Karmowska