The authors present a four-fold conceptual framework of union roles for enhancing workers' paid maternity leave use, consisting of availability, awareness, affordability, and assurance. Using a panel data set constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, workers represented by...

Regarding the relationship between identification and creativity, two theoretical logics compete, suggesting both positive and negative relationships. This study addresses the controversy by invoking regulatory focus theory. At the team level, we theorize that the identification–creativity...

Organizational identification has been suggested as a “root construct” in organizational behavior as it captures visceral identity connection between individual and organization. Yet, no empirical support for the notion exists in the literature, so this study tests organizational...

Organizational identification has been argued to have a unique value in explaining individual attitudes and behaviors in organizations, as it involves the essential definition of entities (i.e., individual and organizational identities). This review seeks meta-analytic evidence of the argument...

The objectives of the employment relationship -- The balancing imperative : human rights in conflict -- Balancing outcomes : the environment and human agents -- Balancing outcomes revisited : the ethics of the employment relationship -- The balancing alternatives : workplace governance -- The...

John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important that employment be given "a human face." Contradicting the traditional view of the employment relationship as a purely economic transaction, with...

Work as a curse -- Work as freedom -- Work as a commodity -- Work as occupational citizenship -- Work as disutility -- Work as personal fulfillment -- Work as a social relation -- Work as caring for others -- Work as identity -- Work as service -- Conclusion : work matters