International Journal of Manpower: Volume 42 Issue 4

Public-sector resource allocation since the financial crisis

Robert Elliott, Daniel Kopasker, Diane Skåtun

Distinguishing what employers in different areas of Great Britain need to pay to attract and retain labour has been a central component of public-sector resource allocation…

Differentiation in pay for performance within organizations: an occupational perspective

Mark Williams, Ying Zhou, Min Zou

This study aims to address the question of why organizations do not uniformly apply pay for performance (PFP) throughout the organization, focusing on the wider occupational…

Wage premia for skills: the complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Marta Palczyńska

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the degree of complementarity between cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills, and to evaluate their joint impact on individual wages.

The development and application of a scale to measure the extent and forms of work-family conflict in collectivist cultures

Navaneethakrishnan Kengatharan, Christine Edwards

The aim of this paper is to advance the conceptualisation and measurement of work-family conflict (WFC) by developing and validating a scale that is relevant in a collectivist…

The native-migrant gap in job satisfaction across European countries

Ilaria Benedetti, Tiziana Laureti, Andrea Regoli

This paper aims to contribute to the body of research on job satisfaction as a subjective dimension of the quality of working life. Specifically, it addresses the comparison of…

The impact of job content on employability and job performance in public organizations

Izabela Marzec, Agata Austen, Aldona Frączkiewicz-Wronka, Bogna Zacny

The increased expectations regarding job performance accompanied by changes in employment relationships in public organizations require special concern for the employability…

Home-based telework: usefulness and facilitators

Andrea Ollo-López, Salomé Goñi-Legaz, Amaya Erro-Garcés

This article aims to analyze individual-, organizational- and country-level factors that determine the use of home-based telework across Europe according to the technology…

White and minority employee reactions to perceived discrimination at work: evidence of White fragility?

Eddy S. Ng, Greg J. Sears, Muge Bakkaloglu

Building on the notion of “White fragility,” this study aims to explore how Whites react and cope with perceived discrimination at work. Specifically, the authors explore whether…

Human resource management systems and intellectual capital: is the relationship universal in knowledge-intensive firms?

Dmitri Sokolov, Elena Zavyalova

While prior research suggests that human resource management (HRM) practices are crucial drivers of a firms' intellectual capital, few studies have tried to deconstruct this…

About sad legacies: a study of the intergenerational occupational legacy in Brazil

Magno Rogério Gomes, Marina Silva da Cunha, Solange de Cássia Inforzato de Souza, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão

This article aims to analyze the workers' probabilities of following their parents’ occupational legacy and whether these individuals are paid differently compared to those who…