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?

  Publication

  • 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

  Publication

  • 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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