Considering the implications of social exchange theory as a context for social role behavior, we tested relations between ethical leadership and both person- and task-focused organizational citizenship behavior and examined the roles played by employee gender and politics perceptions. Although social exchange theory predicts that ethical leadership is positively associated with citizenship, soc...

The state plays a central position in theoretical debates in International Relations (IR). Both Realists and Liberals see the state as the central actor in the international system and thereby follow a Western understanding of the state as the holder of the monopoly of force. In the IRsub discipline of security studies new categories such as weak state, quasi state or state failure have created...

The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004 This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While th...

Within recent years, the literature on employee–CSR relations has grown significantly. However, research is fragmented throughout various journals and disciplines, we still lack a comprehensive review topic to show what currently know about employee relationship with CSR, do not know. In this study, conduct systematic based 331 journal articles. We analyze their methodological theoretical appro...

The article deals with the forthcoming challenges to the German system of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) arising from the Europeanization of industrial relations (IR) in general and the European Company (Societas Europaea SE) in particular. After some short remarks on co-determination 's national history and present challenges, recent political controversies are discussed. Then the most impor...

South Africa's labour legislation framework, promulgated during the past decade (1994^2004), is regarded as some of the most comprehensive in the world. It has done much to redress the imbalances of the past.With four significant Acts promulgated to regulate andmanage labour relations in the country, there are still areas lagging behind that have a profound influence on the country's economic p...