Employee Relations: Volume 30 Issue 1

Gender pay equity, wage fixation and industrial relations reform in Australia: One step forward and two steps backwards?

Michael Lyons, Meg Smith

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact on the new federal wage fixing system on gender pay equity in Australia.

Perceived diversity and organizational performance

Richard S. Allen, Gail Dawson, Kathleen Wheatley, Charles S. White

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between employee perceptions of diversity within the senior management, management and non‐management levels of their…

The changing nature of the HR function in UK local government and its role as “employee champion”

Lynette Harris

Public sector reforms and external performance review has meant that the HR function in UK local government is not only expected to continuously review working practices but is…

Training and cultural context in the Arab Emirates: fighting a losing battle?

Stephanie Jones

The purpose of this paper is to explore the delivery of corporate objectives in customer service in the training of employees in a cultural context at odds with the proposed…

An evaluation of employee motivation in the extended public sector in Greece

Dimitris Manolopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to advance the understanding of the relationship between work motivation and organisational performance in the extended public sector, by testing…

Two representatives but no representation: cases from Estonia

Epp Kallaste, Krista Jaakson, Raul Eamets

The purpose of this paper is to discover how non‐unionised representatives (NERs) are created and what their role is in comparison to unionised representation. The authors aim to…