...Ibeawuchi K. Enwereuzor; Lawrence E. Ugwu; Leonard I. Ugwu Purpose Despite the importance of knowledge sharing (KS), organizations find it difficult to motivate their employees to share their knowledge with co-workers. Based on a combination of the group value model and the socialization resources...

...Yang Yang; Zhongqiu Li; Yingying Su; Xue Zhang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze why and when the future work self affects employee creativity. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 171 supervisor–employee dyads in four Chinese enterprises. Findings...

... factors and work-place characteristics. Design/methodology/approach Employee-level data are obtained from a purposefully designed survey conducted in 2014 on 50 RMG factories located outside the country’s export processing zones. Dependent variables include domain-specific as well as overall life...

...Rojalin Sahoo; Chandan Kumar Sahoo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of organizational justice and conflict management on employee relations (ER) through the mediating role of climate of trust. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted with a sample of 331...

... for female-dominated positions. Gender Discrimination in employment Data collection Employees Wages Field experiment Feminine traits Masculine traits Occupational access J16 J31 Stereotypically male qualities comprise the traits which characterize successful employees, while...

...-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of workers’ compensation insurance prices in Portugal. Multiple regression analysis was used to study the insurance price determinants. The independent variables considered are: payroll, number of employees...

...Swati Mittal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of transformational leadership (TL) on building trust and hence, its influence on the commitment level of the employees to achieve the desired work outcomes. It also examined whether transformational leaders were able...

...-employed (Shane et al., 2003 ; Estrin et al., 2013). Other papers study the earnings differentials between self-employment and wage employment (Hamilton, 2000 ; Hyytinen et al., 2013). Some of these studies compare wages of entrepreneurs to wages of employees in Europe...

... enterprises, the response of trade unions, the roles of employee representative bodies and the rationalisation of post‐crisis managerial strategies. Findings The major conclusions of this special issue are that the impact of the GFC was variable across countries and sectors in addition to the process...

... between working conditions and health according to gender. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Europe Working conditions Employees Occupational health and safety Gender Psychosocial factors Physical hazards Health at work Gender differences Over the past two decades labour...

... and organizational changes for the physical and psychological wellbeing of their employees. Design/methodology/approach Keynote speech (review of the literature). Findings This paper argues that the overlap between health and personnel economics is a new, fruitful area of research that can fill this void...

... is the first attempt to empirically analyze the relationship between mobbing and health at Spanish workplaces. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Spain Workplace Bullying Harassment Employees Health Bullying at workplace Moral harassment Bivariate Probit model Mobbing was quite...

... sample of both foreign and Spanish employees. Using the Machado‐Mata econometric procedure, wage differentials between locals and foreigners are decomposed into the gap related to characteristics and the one due to different returns on endowments (i.e. discrimination). Findings The paper finds...

...) in linking organizational justice and work performance. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from 793 completed questionnaires sampling employees from industries across the People's Republic of China. The questionnaire included scales to measure organizational justice, organizational...

... The paper presents results from the first national survey of day labor worker centers. It highlights the key activities of these emerging labor market institutions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Economics Migrant workers Employment Contingent workers Employees Every morning...

...‐employment there are no statistically significant differences in earnings between the different industries and the reference category Other. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Earnings Self employed workers Employees Sweden The self‐employment sector might affect a country's...

... adaptation patterns across a variety of events remains a fertile ground for further empirical research. Unemployment Employees Perception Quality of life © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 We assume that job loss occurred at time t. We further assume...

...Ingwer Borg; Michael Braun; Miriam K. Baumgärtner Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the participants in an employee survey who do not answer one or more demographic items differ systematically from those who fill out all demographic items. Design/methodology...

... to insufficient control for indicators of job quality. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Employees Job satisfaction Levels of education Belgium On the labour market, higher educated workers seem to be in a favourable position. They are better paid and work in jobs of better quality...

...Steven E. Abraham Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the market reaction to layoff announcements of union and nonunion employees. Design/methodology/approach Event study methodology was utilized to assess the effects of layoff announcements of union versus nonunion employees...