...Vanessa Beck; Paulina Ruiz Cabello Purpose This paper addresses the issue of humour and jokes about menopause in UK workplaces and considers the power relationships that are involved in humorous interactions. Design/methodology/approach In interviews and a survey, humour and jokes emerged...

.... For HRM to be truly sustainable, however, it needs in particular to grapple with the challenges that pluralism in the employment relationship poses, the problem of power imbalances, and the necessity of including employee perspectives on sustainability. The research question I am taking up in the paper...

...Haris Ali Purpose The psychological contract literature is generally based on the assumption of reciprocity between employee and employer. The emphasis on reciprocity, however, largely downplays the implications of power dynamics in the employment relationship. In order to bridge this gap...

...Haris Ali Purpose There have been increasing calls to explore the psychological contract from the lens of power. By addressing this gap, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the assumption of mutuality in relation to power dynamics in the employment relationship. Design/methodology...

... highlight the importance of contexts in the study of diversity management. That is, contexts such as workforce composition and power (e.g. organisational status) in an organisation as well as the social environment’s impact on social identity processes, which results in discrepant focusses...

...Karen Modesta Olsen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how occupations and the institutional setting shape the power balance (individual bargaining power) between employees and employers. It builds on theoretical approaches on knowledge work and institutional theory. Design...

...Brian Abbott; Edmund Heery; Stephen Williams Purpose This paper seeks to focus on civil society organizations (CSOs) and their capacity to exercise power in the employment relationship. In particular, the paper is concerned with identifying the sources of power, how it is exercised and whether...

... attitudes Management Negotiation Power LEGITIMISING ARGUMENTS AND WORKER RESISTANCE by Paul S. Kirkbride Department of Business and Management, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Processes of Worker Resistance In previous articles [1, 2, 3], it was argued that the management of Bettavalve Placid enjoyed...

...Paul S. Kirkbride Power cannot be studied simply by observing the outcomes of contested decision making or by focusing on the possession of physical or structural resources, as an outline of some of the power processes at Bettavalve Placid suggests. Power exists and is mobilised even when “nothing...