...Aigerim Yergabulova; Dinara Alpysbayeva; Venkat Subramanian Purpose The aim of the paper is to explore within-firm vertical pay inequality and its relation to firm size and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach Using firm-level microdata for Kazakhstan, the authors measure within...

...Ana Junça Silva; Alexandra Almeida; Carla Rebelo Purpose This study aims to develop a framework that explains how and when telework is related to emotional exhaustion and task performance, by conceiving work overload as a mediator and self-leadership as a moderator. For this purpose, two studies...

...' levels of trust in management mediated by psychological well-being impact their performance as they telework. Deploying the theoretical lens of person-environment misfit, the authors also explore the role of technostress in the trust-wellbeing-performance relationship. Design/methodology/approach...

...Zina Barghouti; Jacob Guinot; Ricardo Chiva Purpose The authors draw on this approach to explore the consequences of compassion and altruism in the workplace for firm performance, using organizational resilience as a mediating variable. Design/methodology/approach In recent years, a paradigm...

...Batia Ben-Hador Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand better the organizational social capital (SC) levels and their impact on organizations by focusing on personal SC and intra-organizational SC as well as their different connections to organizational gossip and employee performance...

...Dr Fabian Homberg and Dr Rick Vogel; Seungjin Choi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theoretically clarify the relationship between public service motivation and performance by suggesting a framework in which social networks among members provide an explicit mechanism linking employees...

... professionals to assess the relationships between commitment-oriented HRM practice, work intensification, work-life balance (WLB) and task and contextual performance. Findings – The authors find commitment-oriented HRM practice does not intensify the work experiences of professionals, but nor does...

...Kaisa Henttonen; Minna Janhonen; Jan‐Erik Johanson Purpose From the structural perspective of social‐capital theory, this research investigates how a team's social‐network relationships affect its performance. More specifically, it concerns the type of work‐group‐internal connectedness...

...Guido Citoni; Benoît Mahy; François Rycx; Guido Citoni; Benoît Mahy; François Rycx Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a general review of the literature and describe...

...Andreas G.M. Nachbagauer; Gabriela Riedl The discussion on career plateaus is marked by a diversity of operationalizations. This paper focuses on the independence of three dimensions of career plateaus and the impact they have on outcome measures in three areas: performance, work satisfaction...

...Darwish A. Yousef The study explores the role of satisfaction with job security in predicting organizational commitment and job performance in a multicultural non‐Western environment. It also examines factors contributing to the variations in satisfaction with job security among employees. Results...

...Jacob Weisberg Team‐based, performance‐contingent pay plans are designed to increase workers’ motivation and productivity. Evaluates differential performance among 65 workers employed in 20 teamwork groups in a public‐sector organization. Study results are in two directions: first, introduction...

... management proponents that the technique improves participants’ productivity, quality, satisfaction, performance, and appears to be effective. However, less than half of the surveyed respondents who implemented team‐based systems indicated that their self‐managed team programmes had failed to achieve...

...Brian D’Netto; Amrik S. Sohal; Martin S. Putterill; Thomas C. Rohrer Describes the development and testing in a factory setting of a model of the employee organizational commitment process. Extended from early work in the field, the commitment‐performance model (C‐P model)builds up a structure...

... that performance criteria which measure contribution need to be developed for all employees so that rewards can be disentangled from length of service and ensure that jobs, not individuals, become the basis of evaluation. Warr′s (1993) work indicated that, given the increasingly cognitive content of many jobs...

...Jack Kearns; Y. Paul Huo Proposes a new empirical approach to the classification of job families. This approach reflects an attempt to incorporate data on both the performance‐related human attributes and the nature of work or performance itself in developing a job‐classification system. Employees...