{"title":"Call for papers: IR Berkeley special issue on “Collective bargaining: Its causes and consequences for workers and employers”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/irel.12365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 3","pages":"414"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balancing flexibility and stability: The role of outsourced service stations in managing food-delivery platform work in China","authors":"Binyi Yang","doi":"10.1111/irel.12371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12371","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Current mainstream research on on-demand labor platforms primarily focuses on the discussion of algorithmic technologies while overlooking the issue of how platforms achieve stable operations in a de-employment context. Addressing this research gap, this study investigates the approaches employed by Chinese food-delivery platforms to ensure stable labor supply. Utilizing qualitative data, the research reveals that Chinese food-delivery platforms have established stability in labor supply by implementing the outsourced model, partnering with third-party staffing agencies to establish service stations, and managing couriers offline. This approach helps to balance platform and courier needs, addressing the tension between work flexibility and income stability. This research provides a case study illuminating the interplay between technology and the labor market in labor relations. Additionally, it highlights the structural forces that workers form within the internal labor market, deepening our understanding of platform management and the complexities of labor relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 4","pages":"530-551"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorizing collective action—Instrumental collectivism as a key concept for explaining workplace collective action","authors":"Bjarke Refslund","doi":"10.1111/irel.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12364","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article addresses workplace collective action. Through a discussion of instrumental and norm-driven motivations for workers' collective action, it is argued that most workers are driven mainly by instrumental motivations—meaning, that they aim to achieve certain outcomes. Consequently, the theoretical concept of instrumental collectivism from Alan Fox is utilized to explain and understand collective action. Finally, six conditions facilitating workplace collective action, including an ideational and hence constructivist element, are identified and discussed providing a more nuanced theoretical framework of workers' collective action that allows for workers' agency and refutes that instrumentalism per se leads to individualized behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 2","pages":"229-245"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140565382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labor empowerment in corporate boards: The devil is in the details","authors":"Sophie Harnay, Riyad Manseri, Antoine Rebérioux","doi":"10.1111/irel.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2013, mandatory worker representation on French corporate boards was enacted. We examine the way employee directors have been incorporated within the board machinery. Our empirical results indicate that employee representatives have a limited access to board committees. This result casts doubt on the ability of employee directors to significantly influence corporate governance. Consistent with this analysis, we do not find any significant impact, either positive or negative, of codetermination on firm performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 2","pages":"200-228"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140565379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philippe Askenazy, Clément Brébion, Pierre Courtioux, Christine Erhel, Malo Mofakhami
{"title":"Employment strategies in response to the first Covid lockdown: A typology of French workplaces","authors":"Philippe Askenazy, Clément Brébion, Pierre Courtioux, Christine Erhel, Malo Mofakhami","doi":"10.1111/irel.12362","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12362","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research connects the literature on crisis management and on firm flexibility to investigate human resource (HR) strategies in response to unexpected crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Leveraging data from French workplaces we identify five main types of strategies implemented during the first lockdown, which go beyond the massive use of teleworking or the use of short-time work. The analysis demonstrates that a combination of preexisting HR practices (teleworking agreements, wage levels, risk exposure, and health and safety committees) and public policies (short-time programs, legislation on short-time contracts, and temps) influences which of these five strategies firms adopt.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 2","pages":"168-199"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140156335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The geography of collective bargaining in French multi-establishment companies","authors":"Philippe Askenazy, Clémentine Cottineau","doi":"10.1111/irel.12360","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12360","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite growing interest in the firm bargaining process, little research focuses on the structure of bargaining within multi-establishment firms. We question whether running negotiations at the workplace level and/or firm level is a strategic choice for employers. We hypothesize that the level chosen depends on the geography of the firm. Employers face a trade-off: workplace bargaining is more efficient because it meets local conditions; yet higher level negotiations increase coordination costs for workers and weakens their bargaining power, which can benefit the employer. Using a French representative survey, we find a significant relation between the level of bargaining within a firm and the number, spatial distribution and heterogeneity of its establishments, suggesting that the structure of multi-establishment firms can inform the level at which collective bargaining takes place.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"125-144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139956445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The value of industrial relations research(ers): Activism inside and outside the UK Academy","authors":"Huw Thomas, Peter Turnbull","doi":"10.1111/irel.12361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12361","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on an in-depth study of the lived experiences of industrial relations (IR) researchers in the United Kingdom, we demonstrate that IR has survived and thrived as a result of activism both inside and outside the academy. By adapting teaching and research to reflect the contemporary problems for labor, appropriating the study of human resource management, and creating synergies between service, teaching and learning, and both pure and applied research, the field of IR has experienced renewed intellectual vitality. The activism of IR academics in the United Kingdom signifies a promising future and an experience that IR research(ers) elsewhere can draw on.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 2","pages":"151-167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12361","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139960256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric Adom Asante, Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Laila El Bouzidi, Evelyn Twumasi
{"title":"An employee–employer relationship gone bad? Examining the double-edged effect of psychological contract violation on employees' helping behaviors","authors":"Eric Adom Asante, Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Laila El Bouzidi, Evelyn Twumasi","doi":"10.1111/irel.12358","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12358","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An important concept that depicts the nature of employee–employer relationship is the psychological contract. Prior research has argued that all forms of extra-role behaviors suffer once employees' psychological contracts are violated. Helping behaviors are a specific form of extra-role behaviors that may suffer due to psychological contract violation. We argue that this predominantly negative relationship between psychological contract violation and helping behaviors is because the literature has not adequately examined the different types of helping behaviors. Using the latent moderated structural equation approach with multiwave and multisource data from a survey of 269 full-time employees and their coworkers from the hospitality industry in Ghana, we show that psychological contract violation is positively related to reactive helping behaviors and negatively associated with anticipatory helping behaviors through anticipatory anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"103-124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139878356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Higher penalties, broader definitions, and national standards: Did harmonized Australian workplace health and safety laws reduce workers' compensation receipt?","authors":"Anam Bilgrami, Henry Cutler, Kompal Sinha","doi":"10.1111/irel.12357","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12357","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A quasi-experiment was created in Australian policy between 2012 and 2013 when workplace health and safety laws were harmonized in all but two jurisdictions. This reform expanded definitions for duty of care, introduced criminal enforcement, and increased penalties. Using stacked difference-in-difference estimation, we fail to find overall reduced workers' compensation probability over the post-reform period. However, we find significantly reduced workers' compensation probabilities for high-risk industry workers and workers in single-location employers. We conclude that more consistent laws may not reduce overall claims and injury if they do not reduce complexity or consider available inspectorate resources, and if jurisdictions have implementation flexibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"77-102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139374375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health","authors":"Sylvie Blasco, Julie Rochut, Benedicte Rouland","doi":"10.1111/irel.12356","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12356","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Automation may destroy jobs and change the labor demand structure, thereby potentially impacting workers' mental health. Implementing propensity score matching on French individual survey data, we find that working in an automatable job is associated with a 3 pp increase in the probability of suffering from mental disorders. Fear of automation through fear of job loss, expectation of a required change in skills, and fear of unwanted job mobility seem to be relevant channels to explain the findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"40-76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139374320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}