Employee Relations: Volume 26 Issue 1

Age influences on the leadership styles and behaviour of managers

Titus Oshagbemi

This article explains reasons why the study of the relationship between leadership and age may be important and, using a questionnaire survey to collect data from over 400 UK…

The myth of mutuality? Employee perceptions of partnership at Borg Warner

Rachel Suff, Steve Williams

Based on data generated from a case study investigation of a well‐known partnership company the implications of partnership for employees are examined. The partnership approach…

Formalised individual agreements in Australia: Organisational strategies, outcomes and processes of Australian workplace agreements

Paul J. Gollan

There is considerable political and industrial relations debate in Australia concerning the value and merit of Australian workplace agreements (AWAs). However, formalised…

Five‐factor model traits and the prototypical image of the effective leader in the Confucian culture

Sing Lim Leung, Nikos Bozionelos

The association between the “five‐factor model” of personality and the prototypical image of the effective leader, and the extent to which that image was linked to the features of…

The antecedents of customer‐contact employees’ empowerment

Yahya Melhem

Data from 517 service workers in 14 retail banks show positive and significant association between four empowerment antecedents (including trust, incentives, information and…

Employee practices in New Zealand SMEs

Claire Massey

Governments around the world are increasingly focusing on initiatives that encourage business improvement and build “firm capability”. A particular target of such initiatives has…

New Unions, New Workplaces: A Study of Union Resilience in the Restructured Workplace

Kirsty Newsome