All Outputs (11)

L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise (2019)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., Heneghan, S., O'Brien, F., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., …Grant, K. (2020). L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise. European Journal of Training and Development, 44(1), 1-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0166

This monograph reports a study investigating the roles of learning and development (L&D) professionals in Irish, UK European and US organisations. The study investigates the contextual factors influencing L&D roles in organisations, the strategic and... Read More about L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise.

Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor (2019)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., McCarthy, A., Sheehan, M., Lai, Y., Saunders, M. N. K., Clarke, N., …Shanahan, V. (2019). Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21345

We review the methodological rigor of empirical quantitative studies that have investigated the training and organisational performance relationship. Through a content analysis of 219 studies published in quality journals, we reveal significant vali... Read More about Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor.

Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations (2018)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., Wang, J., Matthews-Smith, G., Nagarathnam, B., & Lai, Y. (2018). Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations. Human Resource Development International, 21(4), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1429171

National human resource development (NHRD) is now an important area of investigation within human resource development with significant growth in publications over 49 years. Scholars have, however, highlighted the need for multilevel approaches to NH... Read More about Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations.

Actual and intended growth in family firms and non-family-owned firms: are they different? (2018)
Journal Article
Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Muñoz Torres, R. I., & Mohammed, A. (2018). Actual and intended growth in family firms and non-family-owned firms: are they different?. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 5(1), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/joepp-04-2017-0033

Purpose Drawing on the motivation theory and family business literature, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of family effect in growth behaviour of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. Design/methodology/appro... Read More about Actual and intended growth in family firms and non-family-owned firms: are they different?.

Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: an instrumental variable approach (2018)
Journal Article
Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Muñoz Torres, R. I., & Gourlay, S. (2019). Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: an instrumental variable approach. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(13), 1739-1769. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1423100

The possible role of job satisfaction (JS) on organizational commitment (OC) has been a very important and hotly debated topic among experts. However, existing studies have yielded mixed results potentially due to utilization of small datasets, diffe... Read More about Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: an instrumental variable approach.

Does workplace partnership deliver mutual gains at work? (2017)
Journal Article
Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., & Johnstone, S. (2020). Does workplace partnership deliver mutual gains at work?. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 41(4), 797-823. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x17740431

This paper uses a large matched employer-employee dataset to assess the outcomes of workplace partnership for British firms and workers. Our findings suggest that HR practices associated with direct (non-union based) partnership working such as emplo... Read More about Does workplace partnership deliver mutual gains at work?.

Industry characteristics, stages of E-commerce communications, and entrepreneurs and SMEs revenue growth (2017)
Journal Article
Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Mohammed, A., & Hansen, J. M. (2018). Industry characteristics, stages of E-commerce communications, and entrepreneurs and SMEs revenue growth. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 128, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.10.017

This paper empirically examines the role of industry characteristics portrayed by information intensity of value chain or product in the relationship between the stages of E-commerce development and revenue growth for a large representative sample of... Read More about Industry characteristics, stages of E-commerce communications, and entrepreneurs and SMEs revenue growth.

Exploring the relationship between HRM and firm performance: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies (2016)
Journal Article
Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., & Cooper, C. L. (2017). Exploring the relationship between HRM and firm performance: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Human Resource Management Review, 27(1), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2016.09.005

Existing literature on human resource management (HRM) practices and firm performance suggests that there is a positive association between the two variables. Most of the studies, however, are based on cross-sectional datasets and only few of them us... Read More about Exploring the relationship between HRM and firm performance: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

Human resource practices, employee attitudes and small firm performance (2016)
Journal Article
Lai, Y., Saridakis, G., & Johnstone, S. (2017). Human resource practices, employee attitudes and small firm performance. International Small Business Journal, 35(4), 470-494. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242616637415

This article uses the matched employee–employer dataset from the Workplace Employment Relations Study of 2011 (WERS2011) in Britain to empirically examine the direct relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and small and medium-... Read More about Human resource practices, employee attitudes and small firm performance.

Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession? (2015)
Journal Article
Lai, Y., Saridakis, G., Blackburn, R., & Johnstone, S. (2016). Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession?. Journal of Business Venturing, 31(1), 113-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2015.04.005

This paper uses British large scale survey data to examine the extent to which the recent financial crisis has affected firms' operational activity, and whether or not the existence of human resource (HR) practices have influenced firms' response to... Read More about Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession?.

Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different?: Job Stress in the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article
Lai, Y., Saridakis, G., & Blackburn, R. (2015). Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different?: Job Stress in the United Kingdom. Stress and Health, 31(3), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2549

This paper examines the relationships between firm size and employees' experience of work stress. We used a matched employer–employee dataset (Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011) that comprises of 7182 employees from 1210 private organization... Read More about Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different?: Job Stress in the United Kingdom.