Recently added articles from International Journal of Employment Studies:
Editor's note.
Oct 01, 2008; White, Geoff ... This is the second of the 2008 IJES issues and the last in my role as interim Managing Editor. From the April 2009 issue, Professor Stephen Teo will be taking up the role. The IJES editorial process in future will be much better organised under the control of the International Employment ...
Child labour in India: magnitude, trends and distribution: evidence from the 55th and 61st NSS0 rounds.
Oct 01, 2008; Aggarwal, Suresh Chand ... Introduction Child labour is a major problem in India as well as in the world. At the time when the children should be enjoying their childhood days, they can be seen sweating in the factories and agricultural fields earning a meager sum to support their poverty-stricken ...
Employee-friendly and employer-friendly non-standard work schedules and locations.
Oct 01, 2008; Cooke, Gordon ... Introduction One feature of today's workplaces is the prevalence of non-standard work arrangements (NSWAs). From a worker perceptive, the negative implications of NSWAs are well-documented (e.g. Cranford, Vosko, and Zukewich, 2003; Rau and Hyland, 2002; Zeytinoglu and Cooke, ...
High and low road approaches to the management of human resources: an examination of the relationship between business strategy, human resource management and high performance work practices.
Oct 01, 2008; Gill, Carol ... Introduction The Human Capital approach to Human Resource Management proposes that, unlike traditional sources of competitive advantage, a quality, motivated workforce is a source of competitive advantage that is difficult for competitors to replicate (Luthans and Sommer, 2005) ....
Strategic orientation of the public sector union in Singapore.
Oct 01, 2008; Beng, Chew Soon ... Selective Review of Literature on Labour Relations in the Public Sector Membership of public sector unions worldwide has been falling due to the trend of downsizing of governments worldwide (see for example, Hurd and Pinnock (2004)). The European Foundation for the improvement ...
The impact of the Workchoices unfair dismissal exemption for small businesses on job creation: a study in the Richmond-Tweed region of new South Wales.
Oct 01, 2008; Bryson, Ashlee ... Introduction In the Australian federal parliament, the Liberal-National Coalition government had long sought changes to industrial relations laws that had been introduced by the Labor Party when they were previously in government in the 1990s. One policy plank was exemption ...
Lagged harm of work restructuring and work alienation to work commitment.
Oct 01, 2008; Cheung, Chau-Kiu ... Given that alienation in the workplace is debilitating and detrimental to the worker's performance (Gallie et al. 1998; Jex 1998), it is tempting to examine if restructuring in the workplace creates similarly adverse impacts. This examination is in response to the controversy about the ...
