... is the first to investigate the association between the availability of WLB initiatives in SMEs and firms’ financial results. Financial results Work-life balance Spain Accounting audit firms Work-life balance practices Nowadays, holding down a demanding professional job and also living a busy...

... and learning facilitators, GL and training and proposing the study hypotheses. In the second section, the empirical study of the Rioja wine sector of Spain is presented. The discussion and conclusions are presented in the third and final section. In general terms, it has been suggested that GL activities...

... Supportive work environment Spain Employees behaviour As environments become more complex and dynamic, firms must become more innovative in order to identify more opportunities for sustained superior performance (Shalley et al., 2004). Innovation initiatives tend to depend heavily...

...‐collar workers than for white‐collar workers. Originality/value For the first time, this paper analyses employees' career prospects using work‐based competences as predictors. Additionally, the analysis is based within a very uncertain labour market, Spain, where high unemployment and an extensive...

... between EWR in Spain and its Italian counterpart, in line with the findings obtained by other researchers. The findings support the conclusions of studies that suggest the existence of differences in post‐employment life depending on the level of voluntariness concerned in retirement from the labour...

... that supports WLB. Design/methodology/approach An empirical study was performed with a sample of 229 SMEs representing the metal industry sector of Southeast Spain. Findings The findings show that a WLB supportive culture mediates the effect of the availability of WLB practices on organisational...

... Small business Temporary workers Spain Manufacturing A firm's human capital is an important source of sustained competitive advantage (Hitt et al., 2001) and therefore investments in the human capital of the workforce may increase employee productivity and financial results (Black...

... Food industry Spain We consider organisational learning as the final variable promoted by either employment relationships or internal flexibility. Following on from March's (1991) research, we focus on exploitative and exploratory learning. This author states: “The essence of exploitation...

... that employees with valuable and unique knowledge (knowledge workers) do more to promote the process of organizational learning. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Human capital Human resource strategies Learning organizations Spain The literature concerning the learning organization...

... participation Spain In the current context of transition towards the information, service and knowledge societies (Powell and Snellman, 2004), most economies are experiencing deep changes that affect the business arena, and in particular the labour market. These changes are forcing companies to become...

... Flexible organizations Spain It is often claimed that innovation is one of the main factors underlying a country's international competitiveness, economic growth rate and employment performance (Stokey, 1995). A firm's capacity to innovate is the ability to adopt or implement new processes...

... to a group show a moderating effect on the global model. Research limitations/implications Information has only been collected from the employee and only in Spain. Hence, it would be interesting to collect information from the firm, supervisors and managers and to replicate the study in other cultural...

... organizations Job satisfaction Spain According to Goleman (2001, p. 14) , emotional intelligence (EI), at the most general level, refers to the abilities to recognize and regulate emotions in ourselves and in others. Salovey and Mayer (1990, p. 189) understand EI as the ability to monitor one's own...

... is unprecedented. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Employee attitudes Leadership Public sector organizations Spain In the last decade, non‐task behaviors, or those not recognized in the job related tasks, both in the positive pole, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Human resource management Responsibilities Devolution Outsourcing Spain The management of people occurs in all organisations, whether in a formal, informal or even unconscious manner. Because of this, people management materialises in a wide range...

...Fernando Matías‐Reche; Maria Mar Fuentes‐Fuentes Purpose To ascertain whether any relationship exists between the main processes of human resource management involved in the internal labour market (training and internal recruitment) and the use of temporary help workers (THW) in Spain. Design...

... strategies Human capital Contingency planning Spain Since 1990, a good part of the research into human resource management (henceforth HRM) has centred on studying the influence of HR practices on business performance (Wright and Boswell, 2002). That line of research has been named best practices...

... questionnaires (45 per cent response rate). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Job mobility Promotion Employees turnover Spain Labour mobility has implications for the company's competitiveness and human resource management. Companies need to recruit, promote and retain the most...

...Thomas Li‐Ping Tang; Roberto Luna‐Arocas; Harold D. Whiteside This research examines the money ethic scale (budget, evil, equity, success, and motivator), self‐reported income, demographic variables, and life satisfaction among 207 professors in the USA and 102 professors in Spain. Results...

... to develop labour market flexibility in Europe. The number of people employed with short‐term or part‐time contracts has expanded in nearly all European countries while the proportion of permanent full‐time contracts has declined. In Spain, organisations developed numerical flexibility mainly through...