Personnel Review: Volume 41 Issue 5

Supply chains and labour standards in China

Bill Taylor

This paper aims to examine the relations between supply chain strategies and impact on terms and conditions of employment of multinational corporations operating in China.

Normative identity processes in managers' personal development training

Thomas Andersson

The article aims to analyze how personal development training influences managers' identity processes.

Perfectionism, self‐efficacy and OCB: the moderating role of gender

T. Alexandra Beauregard

This paper aims to examine personality as an alternative explanation to social exchange in predicting OCB, and investigate the moderating role of gender in the link between…

Of private sector fear and prejudice: The case of young citizens in an oil‐rich Arabian Gulf economy

Mohammed A. Al‐Waqfi, Ingo Forstenlechner

The uncompromising preference of citizens for public sector employment throughout the Middle East is not new. However, with the recent saturation of the public sector job market…

Examining the exclusion of employees with Asperger syndrome from the workplace

James Richards

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine reasons for disproportionately high levels of exclusion from the workplace of adults with Asperger syndrome.

Do “hard” diversity policies increase ethnic minority representation?: An assessment of their (in)effectiveness using administrative data

Stijn Verbeek, Sandra Groeneveld

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of three types of diversity policies in improving the numerical representation of ethnic minorities in organizations: the assignment…

Reasons to expatriate and work outcomes of self‐initiated expatriates

Jan Selmer, Jakob Lauring

Through a large‐scale quantitative study, this paper aims to test and extend the qualitative findings of Richardson and McKenna and of Osland on reasons to expatriate and relate…