International Journal of Manpower: Volume 43 Issue 6

Employability of job applicants in skilful jobs: commonality in employer and employee perspectives

Abdullah Murrar, Madan Batra, Veronica Paz, Bara Asfour, Marouane Balmakhtar

The purpose of this research is to explore the employer and employee perspectives about the employability skills of skilful jobs. The research is conducted in a developing country…

Attitudes of employees in green companies regarding CSR communication

Helen LaVan, Ivana Zilic, Sahana Basappa

The purpose of this study is to discern how the Best Green companies, as identified by Newsweek, communicate about green jobs within their companies.

Voluntary part-time and mandatory full-time telecommuting: a comparative longitudinal analysis of the impact of managerial, work and individual characteristics on job performance

Mohd Tariq Jamal, Imran Anwar, Nawab Ali Khan

Based on self-determination theory (SDT), the present study aims to assess the effect of managerial (manager trust and support), work (job autonomy) and individual (intrinsic…

Desired and obtained work values across 37 countries: a psychology of working theory perspective

Lisa E. Baranik, Natalie Wright, Rachel W. Smith

Many contemporary career theories emphasize the role of individual agency and choice, a perspective that may not be relevant for the careers of underprivileged groups around the…

The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: a regression discontinuity analysis

Meltem Dayioglu, Müşerref Küçükbayrak, Semih Tumen

Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, the study finds that increasing the minimum wage reduces the employment…

Workplace ostracism and employee silence in service organizations: the moderating role of negative reciprocity beliefs

Liu Yao, Arslan Ayub, Mustafa Ishaq, Sania Arif, Tehreem Fatima, Hafiz M. Sohail

Employee silence is a pervasive workplace phenomenon that can cause severe economic losses to service organizations. Drawing on conservation of resource theory, the present…

A human resources analytics and machine-learning examination of turnover: implications for theory and practice

Dan Avrahami, Dana Pessach, Gonen Singer, Hila Chalutz Ben-Gal

What do antecedents of turnover tell us when examined using human resources (HR) analytics and machine-learning tools, and what are the respective theoretical and practical…

Productivity and job reallocation: evidence from the Indian manufacturing

Diti Goswami

This study aims to examine the association between productivity growth and job reallocation in terms of job creation and job destruction. It also finds this productivity…

Do labour hoarding practices stimulate training investments? Evidence from the Italian Great Recession

Giulio Pedrini

This paper investigates the relationship between labour hoarding practices and training investments during severe economic downturns focusing on the case of Italy during the Great…

Impact of labour unrest and skilled workforce in host country on inflow of foreign direct investment – a case of Taiwan, ROC

Yu-Cheng Lai, Santanu Sarkar

In this paper, the authors examined the changes in labour unrest and labour quality brought by high labour standards over a considerable period in Taiwan. Then, the authors…