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The use of ethnicity in recruiting domestic labour

Lendaro, Annalisa; Imdorf, Christian - In: Employee Relations 34 (2012) 6, pp. 613-627

meaningful in the recruitment process as indicators of cheap and readily available labour. Intersecting with gender, they signal …

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Demographic Change and Female Employment: Lessons from Two British Cases

Lane, Nikala - In: Employee Relations 15 (1993) 5, pp. 26-39

Increases in female employment in post‐war Britain are characterized by the concentration of women in low‐paid and low status occupations. Demographic change in the late 1980s and early 1990s could have improved the employment status of women, with employers devising “women friendly”...

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Divided We Fall

Bradley, Harriet - In: Employee Relations 16 (1994) 2, pp. 41-52

discusses occupational and gender divisions as examples of blocks to union unity. Concludes that unions must seek to identify …

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Youth, gender and part‐time employment

Lucas, Rosemary; Ralston, Lisa - In: Employee Relations 19 (1997) 1, pp. 51-66

Increasing numbers of full‐time students at school, college and university are combining study with work in marginal, flexible, low‐ paid, part‐time service jobs. The employment relationship is highly informal and the contract may simply be the product of coincidence, because the idea that...

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Myths at Work

McHugh, David - In: Employee Relations 23 (2001) 3, pp. 290-302

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Variation in career and workplace attitudes by generation, gender, and culture differences in career perceptions in the United States and China

Yi, Xiang; Ribbens, Barbara; Fu, Linna; Cheng, Weibo - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 1, pp. 66-82

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare and understand how age, gender and culture affect individual career … generations and cultures; traditional gender role differences persist more strongly across generations in Chinese sample than in … operating in China. Originality/value – This study compared generation, culture and gender differences simultaneously; parallel …

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Talent management practice effectiveness: investigating employee perspective

Khoreva, Violetta; Vaiman, Vlad; Van Zalk, Maarten - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 1, pp. 19-33

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance the theoretical and empirical understanding of the process through which talent management (TM) practice effectiveness impacts high-potential employees’ commitment to leadership competence development. Design/methodology/approach Structural...

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How being female impacts learning and career growth in advertising creative departments

Windels, Kasey; Mallia, Karen L. - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 1, pp. 122-140

advertising creative department? and second, how are women’s learning trajectories influenced by their gender? Findings – Gendered … aware of to examine empirically the relationship between situated learning theory and gender. It provided evidence from … women’s perspectives that gender restricted access to material for forming a positive work-identity, which impeded learning …

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Change at work: feminisation, flexibilisation, fragmentation and financialisation

Rubery, Jill - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 6, pp. 633-644

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the most important trends in work and employment over the past 50 years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopted the 50-year perspective in line with the celebration of Manchester Industrial Relations Society’s 50th...

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Service interaction and dignity in cleaning work: how important is the organizational context?

Alexandra Cruz, Sofia; Abrantes, Manuel - In: Employee Relations 36 (2014) 3, pp. 294-311

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which the nature of a particular work activity – cleaning – changes across organizational contexts, considering specific industry characteristics and working conditions in urban settings in Portugal....

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