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Impact of national culture on organizations’ use of selection practices
Nicholas Ryan Prince, Rüdiger KabstThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of national culture on organizations’ use of selection practices, specifically to investigate the impact of in-group…
The dark side? Fun in the workplace and unwanted sexual attention
Michael J. Tews, Kathryn Stafford, Phillip M. JollyThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether fun in the workplace inadvertently leads to greater incidences of unwanted sexual attention. Specifically, this research examined…
Conformance or evasion: Employment legislation and employment practices in self-contained tourist resorts
Ali Najeeb, Mary BarrettThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how resort managers respond to employment legislation (Law No. 02/2008).
Bullying effects on performance and engagement among academics
Matti Meriläinen, Kristi Kõiv, Anu HonkanenThe purpose of this paper is to examine relationships between perceived bullying, work engagement and work performance among Estonian academics. Specifically, it details what…
Human resource managers as liaisons between firms and labour
Michael O’Donnell, Sue Williamson, Arosha Adikaram, Meraiah FoleyThe purpose of this paper is to explore how human resource (HR) managers in garment factories in a Sri Lankan export processing zone (EPZ) navigated the tension between their role…
The impact of employees’ perceptions of HR practices on identification with the company and citizenship behavior: A moderated mediation model
Charles Chih, Chieh-Peng LinThe purpose of this paper is to review two work groups’ (local vs foreign) perceptions, attitudes and behavior and propose a moderated mediation model to examine perceived HR…
The relevance of socially responsible blue-collar human resource management: An experimental investigation in a Chinese factory
Nick Lin-Hi, Lisa Rothenhöfer, Igor BlumbergThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how Chinese factories can attract and retain blue-collar workers. While higher wages are typically considered to be an effective HR…
Juridification in Chinese Labour Law: a cautionary tale of remuneration disputes
Dong YanThe purpose of this paper is to examine the post-enactment status of China’s Labour Contract Law and Labour Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Law, focusing on the dramatic rise in…
How organization justice and perceived organizational support facilitate employees’ innovative behavior at work
Sajjad Nazir, Amina Shafi, Mian Muhammad Atif, Wang Qun, Syed Muhammad AbdullahThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships among organizational justice, innovative organization culture, perceived organizational support (POS), affective…
Developing serving culture: focus on workplace empowerment
Radoslaw NowakBased on the data gathered from healthcare organizations, the purpose of this paper is to identify new antecedents of service quality. The proposed model posits that workplace…
Generation Y workers: An empirical framework for cultural and organizational aspects
Davide TorselloThe purpose of this paper is to disentangle the different and sometimes controversial aspects of Generation Y workers’ behavior at the workplace and to provide real-life answers…
How union participation influences union commitment and job involvement
Min Li, Wenyuan Huang, Chunyang Zhang, Zhengxi YangThe purpose of this paper is to draw on triadic reciprocal determinism and social exchange theory to examine how “induced-type” and “compulsory-type” union participation influence…
Change, no change or big change? The discontinuous development of trade unions in Nepal
Bojindra Prasad TulachanThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the systematic development of trade unions in Nepal. To that end, it considers historical political paradigm shifts and institutional…
Organizational success, human resources practices and exploration–exploitation learning
Mercedes Ubeda-Garcia, Enrique Claver-Cortés, Bartolome Marco-Lajara, Francisco Garcia-Lillo, Patrocinio Zaragoza-SáezThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyze which policies of human resource management (HRM) contribute to exploratory learning and which to exploitation learning;…
What is said in European Works Councils stays there: Confidentiality and how to cope with it
Lise Meylemans, Stan De SpiegelaereThe purpose of this paper is to study how employee representatives in European Works Councils (EWCs) treat confidential information and how such strategies might improve the EWC…
Employees’ perceptions of human resource management practices and employee outcomes: Empirical evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in China
Shaoheng Li, Christopher J. Rees, Mohamed BranineThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between employees’ perceptions of HRM practices and two outcomes, namely, employee commitment and turnover intention (TI)…
Why is informal employment more common in some countries? An exploratory analysis of 112 countries
Colin Charles Williams, Adrian Vasile HorodnicThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate competing explanations for the greater prevalence of informal employment in some countries rather than others. These variously explain…
For love or money: human resource management in the performing arts
Stanley Chibuzo Opara, Pauline Stanton, Waheduzzaman WahedThe purpose of this paper is to focus on the perceptions of key stakeholders of the human resource management (HRM) practices and challenges in performing arts organisations in…
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