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Quality of work life and career development: perceptions of part‐time MBA students

Li, Jessica; Yeo, Roland K. - In: Employee Relations 33 (2011) 3, pp. 201-220

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine what employees perceive as positive and negative aspects of their work, and how these affect their perceptions of the quality of work life (QWL) and their career development decisions. Design/methodology/approach – This is a qualitative study...

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Antecedents of employee performance: an empirical investigation in India

Biswas, Soumendu; Varma, Arup - In: Employee Relations 34 (2011) 2, pp. 177-192

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between psychological climate, and transformational leadership, with employee performance. The paper builds on relevant research in this area, and extends such research to the Indian context. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Job attribute preferences: who prefers what?

Sutherland, John - In: Employee Relations 34 (2011) 2, pp. 193-221

Purpose – The paper aims to examine worker job attribute preferences, by which is meant the extent to which individuals desire a variety of specific qualities and outcomes from their paid work. It seeks to examine how these preferences are ranked and to identify their principal correlates....

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Trust your teammates or bosses? Differential effects of trust on transactive memory, job satisfaction, and performance

Robertson, Rommel; Gockel, Christine; Brauner, Elisabeth - In: Employee Relations 35 (2012) 2, pp. 222-242

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine, in two studies, whether trust in teammates and trust in management influenced transactive memory and how strongly transactive memory, in turn, influenced perceived team performance and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – Data...

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Job Stress: Boon as well as Bane

Geare, A.J. - In: Employee Relations 11 (1989) 1, pp. 21-26

The widespread practice whereby great emphasis is placed on the harmful effects of stress with only token acknowledgement to the beneficial effects is questioned. While accepting that stress may result in serious problems, it argues that stress is frequently enjoyed and sought by managers. The...

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The Stress of the Executive Life Style: Trends in the 1990s

Cooper, Cary L.; Sutherland, Valerie J. - In: Employee Relations 13 (1991) 4, pp. 3-7

Research on nearly 120 chief executive officers (CEOs) and their spouses from among The Times 1000 European companies is explored. The research found that many CEOs are showing increasing signs of stress, and that the main difficulties are associated with the job interfering with family and...

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Correlates of job insecurity among recent business school graduates

Burke, Ronald J. - In: Employee Relations 20 (1998) 1, pp. 92-98

Examines the relationship between perceived threats to job security, job insecurity, job satisfaction and intentions to quit among recent business school graduates. Most job insecurity research has considered longer tenured organizational employees. Anonymous questionnaires were completed by 217...

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Exploring emotional intelligence, political skill, and job satisfaction

Meisler, Galit - In: Employee Relations 36 (2014) 3, pp. 280-293

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the associations between emotional intelligence (EI) and both political skill and job satisfaction, as well as the possibility that political skill mediates the relationship between EI and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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Disentangling the relationship between high-involvement-work-systems and job satisfaction

Ollo-López, Andrea; Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; … - In: Employee Relations 38 (2016) 4, pp. 620-642

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how high-involvement work systems (HIWS) affect job satisfaction, and tries to disentangle the mechanisms through which the effect occurs. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use data for a representative sample of 10,112 Spanish...

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Pay reductions and work attitudes: the moderating effect of employee involvement practices

Wang, Wen; Seifert, Roger - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 7, pp. 935-950

Purpose Since the 2008 financial crisis, the UK workforce in general has experienced a period of stagnant and falling … perception data to measure organizational EI practices. Design/methodology/approach Employee-employer matched data were used … controlling for important variables such as perception of job insecurity and the degree of adverse impact caused by recession on …

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