Year 2025

• Teal and neurodiverse organisations: leveraging teal management practices to foster workplace neurodiversity

  Publication

  • E. Karwowska
  • P. Majewski

  - Employee Relations - Year 2025

  Purpose Many organisations face challenges in effectively including neurodivergent individuals, often framing inclusion efforts around helping these employees adjust to “normal” practices. While such efforts aim for acceptance, they frequently fall short of realising the full potential of neurodivergent talent. We use teal management practices to embrace neurodiversity and position it as a vital organisational asset, adding valuable...

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Year 2024

• Leading with Understanding: Cultivating Positive Relationships between Neurotypical Leaders and Neurodivergent Employees

  Publication

  • J. Szulc

  - Employee Relations - Year 2024

  Neurodivergent employees have atypical needs that require distinctive leadership approaches. In this study, the specific nature of a relationship between neurodivergent employees and their neurotypical leaders is explored through the lens of the Leader-Member-Exchange (LMX) theory. This two-phased qualitative study builds on 12 semi-structured interviews with neurodivergent employees and an unstructured focus group with 15 individuals...

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Year 2023

• Dependent self-employed individuals: are they different from paid employees?

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  • O. Dvouletý
  • D. Nikulin

  - Employee Relations - Year 2023

  This study focuses on dependent self-employment, which covers a situation where a person works for the same employer as a typical worker while on a self-employment contractual basis, i.e., without a traditional employment contract and without certain rights granted to "regular" employees. The research exploits the individual-level dataset of 35 European countries extracted from the 2017 edition of the European Labour Force Survey...

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Year 2022

• How can the work environment be redesigned to enhance the well-being of individuals with autism?

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  • M. T. Tomczak (formerly: M. Tomczak)

  - Employee Relations - Year 2022

  Purpose – This article examines the opportunities to create optimal conditions for individuals with autism, to work successfully within the contemporary workplace and improve their well-being. These opportunities arise from digital technology (DT) development, enabling the work environment to be remodeled by providing new possibilities and ways of working. The author discusses both technology-based as well as non-technological accommodations...

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Year 2021

• AMO perspectives on the well-being of neurodivergent human capital

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  • J. Szulc (formerly: J. M. Szulc)
  • J. Davies
  • M. T. Tomczak
  • F. Mcgregor

  - Employee Relations - Year 2021

  Existing management research and management practices frequently overlook the relationship between the above-average human capital of highly functioning neurodivergent employees, their subjective well-being in the workplace and performance outcomes. This paper calls for greater attention to the hidden human capital associated with neurodiversity by mainstreaming implementation of neurodiversity-friendly policies and practices. Drawing...

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