Organizations are questioning the effectiveness of one-size-fits-all leadership approaches in managing and developing employees. This article proposes that leaders can support employees in crafting their work experience. By integrating the behavioral domains conducive to job crafting, the...

Online food delivery platforms typically operate through a controversial business model that relies on subcontracting self-employed workers, known as riders. We quantify the labor-market effects of the Spanish Riders' Law in 2021 that established the presumption of dependent employment for...

Using register data, we document that the average German labor market, defined by hires in combinations of 3-digit occupations, requirement levels, and commuting zones, is highly concentrated (HHI=0.257). By EU antitrust thresholds, 56 percent of these labor markets feature moderate or high...

Large organizations often require employees to collaborate with others who may see the world differently. Yet, little is known about whether misalignment in personal values with managers or colleagues affects performance. Using survey and administrative data from a world-leading bank, we find...

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our findings highlight the importance of labor-market entry to understand the...

Restrictive immigration policies may force firms to abruptly change their workforce composition. But how does this impact the performance of these organizations? We study the effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum, which led to a drop in the share of EU nationality nurses in English hospitals....

This paper describes a structured interview process intended to support managers in developing their employees. In response to the challenges with traditional feedback and performance management practices, the feedforward interview provides an alternative discussion format where the manager is...

Aktuell sind rund 820000 Arbeitnehmer*innen aus den EU-Beitrittsländern der ersten Runde (2004) in Deutschland tätig; das sind 2,4% aller Beschäftigten hierzulande. Anders als ursprünglich befürchtet wurde, hat dies jedoch nicht zu einer Verdrängung von deutschen Arbeitnehmer*innen am...

Die Selbstverwaltung des Handwerks ist geprägt von der Einbeziehung der Betriebsinhaber:innen und der Arbeitnehmer:innen. Dieser neokorporatistische Ansatz bringt sowohl Vorteile als auch rechtlich Herausforderungen mit sich, und stellt einen elementaren Unterschied zur Selbstverwaltung in den...

This paper identifies skills required for workers in Industry 4.0 in France and provides insights to guide the development of a future research agenda. The research draws on a bibliometric analysis of 80 papers, mapping the technical and interpersonal skills needed for professionals to adapt and...

This study looked at the complex interactions between agreeableness as a personality trait and five deviant workplace behaviours (including experienced incivility and innovative deviant behaviour) and the role of perceived stress as a mediating mechanism in front-of-house hotel workers. The...

Digital technology has already permeated the production and operations of organizations, with many incorporating it into employee performance evaluations. However, there remains a research gap in identifying efective approaches to achieving digital performance. Furthermore, while scholars have...

Purpose: This study explores how manufacturing enterprises can effectively promote digital transformation through employee empowerment with ability, motivation, and opportunity empowerment at different stages. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on ability, motivation, and opportunity (AMO)...

The aim of this study is to examine the stress and pressure experienced by individuals working in human resources, focusing on the unique challenges that this work entails. This research is therefore guided by the question: what are the characteristics of work-related stress and burnout for...

Purpose - This study aims to examine process improvement strategy (PIS) (proxied by remote work, workforce training, and technological innovation), and employee productivity amid the COVID-19 pandemic among bank employees. Design/methodology/approach - The study employed cross-sectional and...

A recent cross-cultural study suggests employees may be classified, based on their scores on a measure of work ethic, into three profiles labeled as "live to work," "work to live," and "work as a necessary evil." The present study assesses whether these profiles were stable before and after an...

Despite the acknowledged importance of perceived organizational support (POS), organizational trust (OT), and affective commitment (AC) for favorable organizational outcomes, relatively little is known about the processes that underlie these various associations, especially in Islamic, Arabian...

Although previous studies have focused on workplace mobbing in transport companies, there is still a lack of research showing which variables have the greatest impact on employees' intentions to leave their jobs. To address this gap, this paper aims to explore the workplace mobbing variables...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify whether wage discrimination against people with disabilities exists in the Korean labor market and, if so, to understand the cause and level of wage discrimination. Design/methodology/approach: We first conducted Heckman's two-stage model to...

Die Selbstverwaltung des Handwerks ist geprägt von der Einbeziehung der Betriebsinhaber:innen und der Arbeitnehmer:innen. Dieser neokorporatistische Ansatz bringt sowohl Vorteile als auch rechtlich Herausforderungen mit sich, und stellt einen elementaren Unterschied zur Selbstverwaltung in den...

New firms do not yet have employees who can aid recruiting by referrals, but entrepreneurs can recruit workers they know to their startups—in effect making their own referrals. We consider new firms in Brazil’s formal sector founded between 2002 and 2014, for which at least one founding...

The rapid pace of digitalization has given rise to concerns about its influence on job roles. Our findings reveal a substitution effect on accounting employees. This effect is more evident in private firms, firms with higher levels of digital transformation in their accounting departments, firms...

This report describes the main characteristics of the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) conducted in 2021 in the Member States of the European Union (EU), two EFTA countries (Norway and Switzerland) and two candidate countries (Serbia and Turkey). All these countries provide Eurostat...

Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the underlying factors behind salary dispersion underwent significant shifts. To uncover these changes, we analyze an employer-employee dataset comprising the near-universe of Mexico's...

We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers from 1998-2018, we exploit mobility between firms to estimate how much a firm contributes to worker-level differences in utilization in a setting with non-employer provided...