Employee Relations: Volume 45 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Debates on social movements and trade unionism in Europe. New forms of interaction and transformative identities in work and society

Francisco Fernández-Trujillo Moares, Gomer Betancor Nuez, Miguel Martinez Lucio

The tail that wags the dog: lessons from the UK's independent unions for class struggle trade unionism

Vera Weghmann

This article examines in what way strategies of new independent trade unions in London – that achieved pioneering, victories to end outsourcing – offer learning opportunities for…

Worker resistance strategies and union action in platform work: the case of Uber in Spain

Víctor Riesgo Gómez

The author analyses the strategies developed by workers and unions to obtain representation and the successes and limitations of the strategies, in a context of platform work such…

Cycles of labour protests: public and private sector unions' contentious actions

Jenny Jansson, Katrin Uba

This paper aims to examine the cycle of labour protests in Sweden, comparing the contentious actions of trade unions in public and private sectors over 40 years. Prior studies…

Co-produced or co-opted? Reflections on the “movement” to promote good employment in Greater Manchester

Mathew Johnson, Eva Herman, Ceri Hughes

The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter – a top-down soft regulation initiative that has been framed as a…

Gender and negotiation initiation during Covid-19: studying negotiations over salary, work-role and work-home balance and the pandemic's perceived effects

Noa Nelson, Noa Doron, Shachaf Amdur

The study tested the effects of gender on negotiation initiation in three topics: salary, work-role and work-home balance; and on employee's perceptions of Covid-19 as inhibiting…

Mental health at the workplace, person-organization-fit and labor productivity growth: evidence from the Egyptian soap and detergents industry during COVID-19

Tarek Mohamed Ali, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Bassant Adel Mostafa

This study seeks to examine the mediating role of mental health issues in the workplace (MHIW) in explaining the complex relationship between person-organization-fit (P.O-fit…

Exploring predictors of innovation performance of SMEs: a PLS-SEM approach

Hongyun Tian, Shuja Iqbal, Shamim Akhtar

In the competitive business world, companies strive to be innovative, and to do so, they try to implement innovative human resource practices. Therefore, the authors propose an…

Towards understanding the relationships between economics, tribalism and the use of the wasta informal network in the workplace

Fadi Alsarhan, Arwa Al-Twal

The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between economic challenges, tribalism and the use of the wasta informal network in the workplace across Middle East and…

Improving creativity among SME employees: exploring the role of organization-based self-esteem and psychological capital

Madihalli Sujatha, Ujjal Mukherjee, Nishant Singh, Umesh Bamel

Unlike multinational companies, small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) have budget constraints and, thereby, cannot invest heavily in improving the creativity of employees. They…

“What else is new?” identifying emerging psychosocial risk factors in hospitality employment

Olga Gjerald, Trude Furunes, Gro Ellen Mathisen

The purpose of this study is to identify new psychosocial risk factors in the assessment of job demands and job resources in hospitality employment and to initiate the development…

Need to cut or freeze pay of your employees? Providing work–life balancing practices can help if maintaining employee morale is a concern

Yeongjoon Yoon, Sukanya Sengupta

Research on the effect of pay cuts/freezes on employee morale is limited. More importantly, past studies examining this relationship tend to focus on fairness perception as a…

From snapshot to movie: decomposing the minimum wage effects on employment into hirings and separations

Mónica Jiménez Martínez, Maribel Jiménez Martínez

While the effect of the minimum wage (MW) on employment has been widely studied, less is known about its impact on hirings and separations. Whereas the adverse effects of MW on…

Remote working during COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: lessons learned and what the future holds

Arosha S. Adikaram, N.P.G.S.I. Naotunna

This paper aims to explore how Human Resource Management (HRM) practices were adopted to implement and manage remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify whether and…