The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the intention to stay for Gen-Y employees of multinational corporations (MNC) in Penang, Malaysia. Specifically, this research aims to assess the impact of ethical leadership as the independent variable on employees' intention to stay...

The purpose of the study is to review and integrate various definitions of the employee life cycle (ELC) and to develop new conceptual bases of ELC by applying logical analysis and systemic approach. In this article, we suggest the employee life cycle has a "client-based" approach. Therefore the...

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...

Am Beispiel des Lieferdienstes Gorillas untersucht der Beitrag Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Regulierung von Rider-Arbeit. Im Fokus stehen Arbeitskonflikte und die dabei beteiligten Akteure. Die Rekonstruktion der Konfliktdynamik zeigt, dass einige der Arbeiter:innen sich zu einem autonomen...

This paper examines evidence on wage spillovers from workers with experience in foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) to incumbent workers in domestic firms. Using administrative panel data from Ireland, I examine possible heterogeneity for such spillovers across the wage distribution using...

The demographic development in Germany will lead to a declining number of people of working age and thus potentially in the labour force. The age structure is shifting towards older cohorts. The labour force will decline by 16 million workers between 2020 and 2060. However, an increase in the...

Employee ownership has attracted growing attention for its potential to improve economic outcomes for companies, workers, and the economy in general, and help reduce inequality. Over 100 studies across many countries indicate that employee ownership is generally linked to better productivity,...

This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world which gathers data from online news media reports and other online sources. For the period January 2017 to July 2020, we identified 1,271 instances of...

This working paper gives an overview of legal standards related to personal data protection. It explores trends, principles and good practices and brings them in relation to the world of work. The aim of this working paper is to give a global and updated outlook of the leading and basic legal...

Purpose - This paper aims to study followers’ proactive personality (PP) as a personal resource in moderating the hindering impact of exploitative leadership (EL) on followers’ job strain (JS). Design/methodology/approach - Self-report data on EL, JS and PP were obtained from 113 working...

We examine how employees’ online ratings on Glassdoor affect a firm’s cash holding adjustment speed. We find that firms with higher average online ratings increase the speed of adjusting their cash holding to the optimal level faster. The results are pronounced in high human...

This study aims to gain a better comprehension of how employees in INGOs in Yemen perceive performance appraisals and their role in job satisfaction through exploring the impact of performance appraisal and its five constructs namely: direction and objectives to staff, performance appraisal...

Employees' annual earnings fall by 13% the year their firm files for bankruptcy, and the present value of lost earnings from bankruptcy to six years following bankruptcy is 87% of pre-bankruptcy annual earnings. More worker earnings are lost in thin labor markets and among small firms. Ex ante...

Emotional Intelligence has been linked with many desirable performance outcomes; however, the strength and nature of this impact has often been debated. Leading researchers advocate the use of specific, relevant and well-established instruments in empirical research to study Emotional...

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at-risk group comprises older employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the...

You and the other one thousand people are applying for the same job. Why should they employ you? What will you bring to the table? Today's business climate is getting increasingly complex and competitive because of various causes. Employers believe that professional and technical abilities alone...

The purpose of this research is to know the impact of workability, work discipline, and work motivation on employees’ work performance. This research took place from 28 October – 4 November 2021.with 100 respondents from employees with different employment statuses, i.e. intern, full-time,...

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro-data to examine changes in workforce composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in service imports. We use world service export-supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based on their highly...

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...

It is easier to discover why people died in the past than how healthy they were during their lives. However, in both Europe and North America, much evidence survives about the health of young males from the medical examination of recruits to the armed forces. The paper discusses the possibility...

We examine the managerial incentives to voluntarily disclose the gender diversity of a firm’s workforce. When examining voluntary disclosures, one key challenge is the difficulty of observing the underlying performance for nondisclosers. We overcome this challenge by using novel data extracted...

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work- force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...

This study aims to obtain findings of the effect of work experience, competence, and work motivation on employee performance. This type of research uses quantitative research methods with descriptive analysis and takes measurements through an ordinal scale. The data collection technique used is...

Deliberate employee churn and the Great Resignation are two phrases that describe the latest change in work. Some employers, notably Amazon, deliberately churn employees to avoid a “march to mediocrity” by implementing appalling working conditions and policies that result in employees...

We examine the moderating effect of employees’ ratings of their CEOs on the relation between CEO overconfidence and firm value. Obtaining the employees’ CEO approval data from Glassdoor, we test the hypothesis that CEO overconfidence with a high approval rating is associated with higher...

Der Veränderungs- und Anpassungsdruck auf Betriebe und ihre Beschäftigte ist vor dem Hintergrund der Megatrends wie dem digitalen und ökologischen Wandel enorm. Die erfolgreiche Bewältigung des Wandels hängt maßgeblich davon ab, wie es in Betrieben gelingt, Beschäftigte für die...

Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. On direct effects, larger referral bonuses increase referral quantity but decrease quality, though the increase in referrals from ERPs is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing...

Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation and thus it is critical that we understand their vulnerabilities and what makes them resilient to different types of shocks. We take...

This conceptual paper aims to expand the notion of “farming newcomers” in Europe by also including those that we label “involuntary newcomers”, who correspond to the workforce coming unwillingly to farming for reasons associated with spatial (im)mobilities. We fully develop our aim in...

Climate change is one of the highest-ranking issues on the political and social agenda. Vulnerabilities of the world ecosystem laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential damage for the human and business life made the need for urgent action clear once again. Corporations are one of the...

Climate change is one of the highest-ranking issues on the political and social agenda. Vulnerabilities of the world ecosystem laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential damage for the human and business life made the need for urgent action clear once again. Corporations are one of the...

Background: This paper shows that the tools of digital demography, such as Google Trends, can be used for determining, estimating, and predicting the migration of health care workers (HWs), in this case, from Croatia and the Western Balkans (WB) to Germany and Austria. Objective: This study aims...

Job satisfaction refers to one’s approaches towards one’s job. If the employees expectations are fulfilled (or) the employees get higher than what he/she feels satisfied. The main objective of this research is to study the theoretical framework of job satisfaction in banking sector employees...

Recent trends in the labor market see increasing numbers of workers having to deal with "schedule precarity" including volatile hours, rotating shift work, unpredictable work hours and lack of choice on the part of the employee. These trends are of concern to those interested in fostering levels...

This paper contributes to the literature by examining whether LGBTQ-friendly employee policies foster corporate innovation. Using data on U.S. firms from 2003 to 2017, we document that LGBTQ friendliness has a positive influence on innovation intensity and quality. Specifically, our results...

This is a preliminary study of Japanese co-workers’ attitudes towards migrant workers’ Japanese language skills in blue-collar workplaces. It is based on limited data consisting of documents taken from English-language sources. The author found that Japanese co-workers and employers assume...

Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27...

The management of diversity is a young science that has come about from various historical and social problems. Researchers suggest that the literature of Diversity Management shows that the word, "managing diversity" is not widely embraced. Human capital-benefit companies will still accomplish...

While ensuring employment opportunities is critical for global progress and stability, workers are now subject to several disruptive trends, including automation, rapid changes in technology and skill requirements, and energy transitions. Yet, these trends seem almost insignificant compared to...

A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...