This paper examines the effect of state-level culture in US on adoption firms’ workplace diversity policies. Using firm-level panel data (1592 firm-year observations) over period 2011–2014, we document that firms highly individualistic states are less likely to adopt policies, which turn negatively affects firm performance. Our results robust alternative variables and econometric specifications...

In this paper we fuse HRM and KM perspectives in order to explore the detrimental impact of age discrimination or “ageism” prevalent in UK organizations on the development of social capital, considered to be so vital for improved organizational performance in knowledge-based economies. We discuss the potential impact of new age discrimination legislation in the UK in overcoming ageism, highligh...

Workplace Smoking Policies Approximately 30 percent of all private sector workplaces have a formal smoking policy, while a majority of Americans support smoking policies. Governments at all levels and the private sector are increasingly adopting or strengthening such policies and there is no evidence of retrenchment. In addition, the protection of nonsmokers, who account for 67 percent of the p...

The United States construction industry experienced 151 fatalities resulting from workers colliding with objects and equipment in 2009. These fatalities accounted for approximately 18% of the total construction fatalities and 3% of the total workplace fatalities experienced that year. Construction workers and equipment are often required to function at close proximity on construction jobsites. ...

We consider the role of ‘workplace studies’ in design and specifically, what it means to use ethnography to ‘inform’ design. We suggest that there is a need for a foundational change in the configuration of the practical relationship between ethnography and design if the approach is to be of lasting utility: from the traditional product-oriented configuration where ethnography attempts to infor...