Personnel Review: Volume 53 Issue 5

Editorial: Caring for our workers: advancing human resource management to support workforce mental health

Timothy Bartram, Louise Byrne, Ying Wang, Zhou Jiang

Extending the research frontiers of employee mental health through contextualisation: China as an example with implications for human resource management research and practice

Fang Lee Cooke, Wenqiong Xu

Impoverished employee mental health is harmful to employees and organisational performance. There is emerging interest in employee mental health in the human resource management…

Mental well-being through HR analytics: investigating an employee supportive framework

Remya Lathabhavan

Organisations are increasingly adopting and adapting to technological advancements to stay relevant in the era of intense competition. Simultaneously, employee mental well-being…

Bots for mental health: the boundaries of human and technology agencies for enabling mental well-being within organizations

Debolina Dutta, Sushanta Kumar Mishra

The importance of mental wellbeing and the need for organizations to address it is increasing in the post-pandemic context. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly…

Mental health and expatriate psychological adjustment post-COVID: towards a new framework

Donna Derksen, Parth Patel, Syed M. Mohyuddin, Verma Prikshat, Sehrish Shahid

This paper aims to propose an expatriate psychological adjustment model that postulates expatriate mental health as an antecedent to psychological adjustment. It presents novel…

Employing people who have “been there, experienced that” to inform innovative HRM responses to workforce mental health issues: practice insights from industry

Ying Wang, Melissa Chapman, Louise Byrne, James Hill, Timothy Bartram

This case documents an innovative human resource management (HRM) practice adopted by an Australian organization in the energy sector, purposefully introducing lived experience…

Should I pet or should I work? Human-animal interactions and (tele)work engagement: an exploration of the underlying within-level mechanisms

Ana Junça Silva

Human–animal interactions (HAIs) have been found to have an extensive and significant influence on individuals' well-being and health-related outcomes. However, there are few…

A diary study on location autonomy and employee mental distress: the mediating role of task-environment fit

Chia-Huei Wu, Matthew Davis, Hannah Collis, Helen Hughes, Linhao Fang

This study aims to examine the role of location autonomy (i.e. autonomy over where to work) in shaping employee mental distress during their working days.

Work arrangement “yo-yo”: forced flexibility from the office to home and back again

Uma Jogulu, Nicola Green, Esme Franken, Alexis Vassiley, Tim Bentley, Leigh-ann Onnis

This study explored one form of remote working – work from home – to understand the impact of work disruptions on workers and human resource management (HRM) practice and…

A mixed-methods approach for the relationship between organizational attributes, reputation, employer brand and intention to apply for a job vacancy

Israa Elbendary, Ahmed Mohamed Elsetouhi, Mohamed Marie, Abdullah M. Aljafari

This study aims to investigate the direct effect of organizational reputation (OR), employer brand (EB) and organizational attributes (OA) on the intention to apply for a job…

Technology infiltration: permeable boundaries and work–life spillover experiences among academics in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chima Mordi, Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi, Olatunji David Adekoya

This study explored the challenges academics faced with work structures during the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for their work–life balance (WLB).

The moderating effects of relative racio-ethnicity on the inclusion to health to turnover intentions relationship

Karen Holcombe Ehrhart, Beth G. Chung

This study extends work on the role of the organizational context in contributing to employee health by investigating whether an employee's status as a racio-ethnic minority in…

Perceived overqualification, work-related boredom, and intention to leave: examining the moderating role of high-performance work systems

Anna Bochoridou, Panagiotis Gkorezis

Prior studies have shown various mediating and moderating mechanisms regarding the effect of employees' perceived overqualification on intention to leave (ITL). Nonetheless, only…

What is in your résumé? The effects of multiple social categories in résumé screening

Luisa Helena Pinto, Rita Portugal, Patricia Viana

Numerous studies have shown that minority workers are disadvantaged in the labour market due to stereotypes and discrimination. However, published research on résumé screening has…