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HRM, Employee Relations And The Labour Market

Gunnigle, Patrick - 2002

The transition from school to work: a European perspectiveIn general, a person's employment and educational biographies do not alwaysrun smoothly and in only one direction. Interruptions often occur, or theindividual may begin to move in different or new directions

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Hollowing out national agreements in the NHS? The case of “Improving Working Lives” under a “Turnaround” plan

Roper, Ian; Etherington, David; Lewis, Suzan - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 2, pp. 145-159

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the resilience of a national-level initiative (Improving Working Lives (IWL)) in the face of local-level initiative (Turnaround) in an NHS hospital and compare to Bach and Kessler’s (2012) model of public service employment relations....

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Employers’ perception of women workers in Oman and the challenges they face

Belwal, Rakesh; Belwal, Shweta - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 7, pp. 1048-1065

Purpose The participation and productivity of women in Oman’s labor force are very low and heavily skewed toward the government sector. There are few women in the private sector and the reasons for this are not well-known. The challenges that women workers face specifically in the Arab World...

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HIV/AIDS and Hotel and Catering Employment: Some Implications of Perceived Risk

Adam‐Smith, Derek; Goss, David - In: Employee Relations 15 (1993) 2, pp. 25-32

Addresses the workplace issues posed by HIV/AIDS within the hotel and catering industry. In particular, examines the theoretical risks which may be peculiar to organizations in this industrial sector. Suggests that the “objective” risk assessment provided by “experts” is not necessarily...

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Job demands, health, and absenteeism: does bullying make things worse?

Devonish, Dwayne - In: Employee Relations 36 (2013) 2, pp. 165-181

negative health outcomes. Originality/value – The study investigated how different categories of stressors interact with each … other to predict various health outcomes or forms of job strains. …

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Developing individual and organisational work-life balance strategies to improve employee health and wellbeing

Zheng, Connie; Molineux, John; Mirshekary, Soheila; … - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 3, pp. 354-379

from having better health and wellbeing when they have WLB and this, in turn, impacts on organisational productivity and … performance. The purpose of this paper is to explore relevant WLB factors contributing to employee health and wellbeing, and to … health and wellbeing. Design/methodology/approach – Using the data collected from 700 employees located in Queensland …

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HRM in UK hotels: a focus on commitment

McGunnigle, Peter J.; Jameson, Stephanie M. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 4, pp. 403-422

Explores human resource management (HRM) and the established relationships between HRM, the management of “commitment cultures”, the recruitment and selection procedures, and the training and development practices considered necessary to develop employee commitment. The literature suggests...

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Benchmarking HRM and the benchmarking of benchmarking

Rodwell, John J.; Lam, Jeremy; Fastenau, Maureen - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 4, pp. 356-374

Organisations with low absenteeism and low turnover can be distinguished from organisations with high absenteeism and turnover through the identification and implementation of sophisticated and strategic best practices such as benchmarking relative cost position, developing a corporate ethic,...

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What shapes HRM? A multivariate examination

Bin Othman, Rozhan; Poon, June M.L. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 5, pp. 467-480

The link between business strategy and human resource management (HRM) practices has received considerable attention from researchers. It is generally believed that integrating strategy and HRM will result in positive organizational outcomes. The empirical evidence for the strategy‐HRM...

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Employee commitment: academic vs practitioner perspectives

Shepherd, Jeryl L.; Mathews, Brian P. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 6, pp. 555-575

Employee commitment has been extensively researched by academics. Theories about commitment towards the organisation have enjoyed much interest. The concept is a central part of HR models. Research to date, however, has not examined the extent to which such “academic” perspectives are...

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