The managers very often don’t take into consideration cultural determinants which can influence their employees’ attitude and preferences. This can result in the transfer of practices which are not suitable in specific cultural environment. The aim of this paper is to present the direction of the influence of one of the national culture dimensions – power distance on the internal relations betw...

Debates on the desirability of workplace employee representation are rarely evidence-based. We use a workplace survey covering 27 EU countries to show that its incidence is strongly and independently correlated with the degree of centralization in a country’s industrial relations regime and the extent of legislative support. Industry profits are important in explaining trade union presence, but...

Periodically, the ‘zone of acceptance’ within which management may use its authority to direct employees’ work needs to be adapted to the changing needs of organisations. This article focuses especially on the non-codified elements of employees’ work, such as those commonly the subject of ‘psychological contracts’, and considers the role of individual employee voice in the process of adaptation...

The policy of limiting social interaction (working from home) by the government since March 15, 2020, makes proper communication very important. Therefore, and involvement are important factors to improve employee relations performance. purpose this study is analyze effect on relations, performance, through performance CV. Allsolutions, Surabaya. This uses quantitative methods sample 54 respond...

Integrating and expanding upon the person-environment fit (PE fit) and the selfdetermination theory literatures, we hypothesized and tested two competing models in which the satisfaction of the psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence mediated or partially mediated the relations between different types of PE fit (i.e., person-organization, person-group, and person-job fit) ...

The aim of this paper is to assess the validity of the ‘empowerment thesis’: the belief that new forms of work organisation are overturning traditional managerial structures and returning control to employees. Specifically, the project seeks to explore the role of ‘empowering’ forms of work organisation (in particular Total Quality Management, team-based work and consultative committees) and of...

We thank participants at seminars and conference presentations at Harvard University, NBER,APPAM, and AEFA for their useful feedback. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ABSTRACT Rates of employee absences and the effects of absences on productivity are topics of conversation in many organiza...

Fairness in the workplace attenuates a host of negative individual and organizational outcomes. However, research on the psychology of aging challenges the assumption that fairness operates similarly across different age groups. The current research explored how older workers, vis-à-vis younger workers, react to perceptions of fairness. Integrating socioemotional selectivity theory and the mult...

This chapter discusses normalization of relations when the candidate keys of a relation have missing information represented by nulls. The chapter shows that problems and confusion can arise in normalizing relations with nulls in candidate keys. Candidate keys with missing information commonly are found in relations that represent information on two entities with a one-to-one relationship betwe...