...Gustavo A. García; Diego René Gonzales-Miranda; Oscar Gallo; Juan Pablo Roman-Calderon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effect of employee involvement in the workplace on job satisfaction for millennial workers in Colombia. Design/methodology/approach Data were...

... in facilitating HII activities. Practical implications The findings show that HII has the potential to enrich frontline employees’ jobs, making them feel more valued and giving them some variety and challenge in their job. Therefore, practitioners should approach employee involvement in the innovation process...

... recession; and second, to examine the moderating effect of employee involvement (EI) practices on that relationship. This was done by using aggregated employee perception data to measure organizational EI practices. Design/methodology/approach Employee-employer matched data were used, involving 8,489...

...Ummu Kolsome Farouk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between management’s commitment and effective occupational safety and health committees (OSHCs), which are a form of representative employee involvement in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach Using data from...

... developed and tested in the future. Line managers Employee involvement Employee participation Front-line managers Employee voice Line managers play a critical role in managing various aspects of an organisation including their people management – a role that can be seen to involve both human...

... advantage (Wright et al., 1994). Consequently firms must protect and develop both specific and general human capital. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Training Human capital Employee involvement Pay Human resource management High-performance work practices Employee share...

... some level of employee voice, though these systems are often criticized by industrial relations scholars for being managerially driven. So a key question emerges namely, whether the call centre voice and employee involvement call centre literature differs to the mainstream literature on voice...

..., operating on a minimal basis of shared knowledge and understandings. Employee attitudes Qualitative methods Employee relations Employee involvement Flexible labour Labour mobility Previous research on projects and project organising is extensive in some areas – for example, project...

.... Corporate social responsibility Employees behaviour Voluntary actions Motivation (psychology) Employee involvement Employee relations Corporate volunteering Satisfaction Motivations The contemporary economic and social context calls for revised formulations of the role of enterprises...

... and meanings drawn from interview texts; and 2. graphical data display. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Workplace Employee behaviour Employee involvement Employee participation There is acknowledgement, however, that implementation of a fun philosophy in the workplace may...

... Employee development Employee involvement Employee participation Employee attitudes The games begin, the paintball spats, the costumes are donned, and the jokes are told, but all in all, when the whistles are blown and time is called, we are left to ask: are we having fun yet? This Special Issue...

... Workplace Employee attitudes Employee involvement Equal opportunities Call centres Individuality is not just tolerated […] but actively encouraged – particularly when it comes to employees expressing the fun side of their personalities […] All of this is based on the belief that when people...

... group interviews were conducted in 2002 with federal government employees involved in service delivery. Interview transcripts were content analyzed. The employee empowerment and service quality literatures, including critical perspectives, provide the theoretical underpinnings of the study. Findings...

.../methodology/approach This study is part of a research project investigating the extent to which employee involvement predicts job performance (as well as job satisfaction, wellbeing and organisational commitment) in the NHS, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The main focus of this paper...

... Strategic management Human resource management Employee involvement Line managers Hotels United Kingdom In 2001, Hilton hotels initiated a service quality approach (Equilibrium), with a human resource (HR) strategy and employee training and development club (Esprit) throughout its hotels...

... as industrial relations actors and that they are significant, particularly in the absence of a strong labour movement. Brian Abbott can be contacted at: B.Abbott@Kingston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Charities Employee relations Employee involvement United Kingdom...

...Fitsum Ghebregiorgis; Luchien Karsten Purpose This article seeks to examine the challenges and prospects of human resource management (HRM) in a developing‐country context. It focuses on contextual factors and employee involvement in analysing HRM to provide theoretical insights. Design...

...Cedric E. Dawkins; John W. Frass Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the ability of the theory of planned behaviour to predict worker intent towards an employee involvement (EI) programme, and the impact of union identification on workers’ decision making. Design/methodology/approach...

...Anne Munro Contributes to debates about employee involvement and social partnership by exploring the ways in which individualist and collectivist aspects interrelate in a single initiative in the National Health Service. Identifies a particular form of employee involvement in which partnership...

... is questionable. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Employee rights Consultations Communications Employee involvement Representation Human resource management Strategy The paper attempts to fill the gap in the current research by raising a number of research questions. First, why do non‐union...