Employee Relations: Volume 41 Issue 4

Corporate wellness: what, why not and whither?

Geraint Harvey

The purpose of this paper is to present corporate wellness (CW) as an approach to worker well-being and as distinct from workplace health promotion (WHP). Theoretical explanations…

Application of the person-centered model to stress and well-being research: An investigation of profiles of employee well-being

Mark Somers, Dee Birnbaum, Jose Casal

The purpose of this paper is to investigate profiles of employee well-being using multiple components to better understand how well-being is experienced in organizations.

Empowerment and initiative: the mediating role of obligation

Wajda Wikhamn, Marcus Selart

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which psychological empowerment and felt obligation can explain variations in personal initiative.

Human resource strategies for organizational ambidexterity

Andrea Kim

The purpose of this paper is to propose a comprehensive framework that delineates how human resource (HR) practices are differentially configured for exploitative and explorative…

Antecedents of intensified job demands: evidence from Austria

Saija Mauno, Bettina Kubicek, Jaana Minkkinen, Christian Korunka

In order to understand the driving forces behind intensified job demands (IJDs), the purpose of this paper is to examine demographic factors, structural work-related factors…

Just benefits? Employee benefits and organisational justice

Melinda Laundon, Abby Cathcart, Paula McDonald

Employee reward is central to contemporary debates about work and employment relations; and in the context of ongoing wage stagnation, benefits represent a growing proportion of…

The effect of social and economic transitions on the meaning of work: A cross-sectional study among Israeli employees

Moshe Sharabi, Brian Polin, Galit Yanay-Ventura

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of social and economic changes, particularly the transition from a collectivistic to an individualistic society, on the meaning…

Co-workers’ perceptions of and reactions to employee’s involuntary demotion

Sophie Hennekam, Subramaniam Ananthram, Steve McKenna

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how individuals perceive and react to the involuntary demotion of a co-worker in their organisation.

How the changing relationship between labour and political party influenced growth of autonomous labour unions in Taiwan

Santanu Sarkar, Meichun Liu

The purpose of this paper is to find how the changing relationship between labour and political parties influenced the growth of reasonably independent labour unions in Taiwan.

Exploring millennial psychological contract expectations across talent segments

Jyoti Joshi Pant, Vijaya Venkateswaran

The purpose of this paper is to identify talent segments within the millennial generation based on performance and intention to stay and differentiate them in terms of their…

Implemented and perceived high-performance work system and its effect on branch performance: A 2-1-2 mediational multilevel approach

Muhammad Ali, Shen Lei, Susan Freeman, Mubbsher Munawar Khan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of high-performance work systems (HPWS) on unit performance relative to the mediating roles of collective human capital (CHC…

High-commitment work systems and employee voice: A multilevel and serial mediation approach inside the black box

Junwei Zhang, Muhammad Naseer Akhtar, Yajun Zhang, Yasin Rofcanin

Although scholars have suggested that employees often carefully consider social contexts before enacting voice, few studies have explored whether firms foster employee voice…