Esther Villajos

• PhD in Human Resource Psychology
• Professor at University of Valencia

The urgency of addressing global environmental concerns creates the pressure to “go green” for all competitive organizations and to implement Green Human Resources Management (GHRM) Practices. This tendency is even more pressing in social economy organizations, due to their triple bottom approach. However, it is not clear how GHRM can be translated...

Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in driving economic growth and innovation. However, it is also recognized that entrepreneurship can be a highly stressful and demanding journey characterized by uncertainty, risk-taking, and long hours, which could have detrimental effects on the well-being of entrepreneurs, their families, and, ultimately, society...

This study aims to identify the main trends, theories, and possible future research directions on entrepreneurs’ well-being, a topic related to venture performance and exit intentions. To achieve this, we proceeded with a scoping review of the entrepreneurs’ well-being. We first identified articles that discussed the entrepreneur’s well-being and u...

Workplace dignity is an essential aspect of mental health and well-being. It is a human right and should be promoted for its own merits. However, social inequalities may interfere with the experience of dignity of different groups, even when they share the same workplace. Previous research has suggested that gender and economic inequalities, which...

Workplace Dignity is a human right. It is moral and ethical and should be promoted for its own merits. The lack of dignity in the workplace is a prevalent issue, especially in developing countries. The aim of this research was to adapt and show evidence of the validity of the Workplace Dignity Scale (WDS) developed by Thomas and Lucas (2019), prese...

The changes and diversity in the demographic profile of the Spanish workforce have sparked a great deal of interest, particularly in human resource management. Examining the intricate balance that individuals and organisations strike between family, gender, and work responsibilities becomes particularly crucial, especially in the context of familie...

Recientemente, nuestra sociedad ha presenciado una notable expansión y transformación impulsada por la Inteligencia Artificial (IA). Una tecnología que ha atraído considerable atención es el ChatGPT, lo que ha generado cierta alarma en el ámbito de la educación al observarse que numerosos estudiantes optan por utilizar esta herramienta sin ser cons...

El avance de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) y su impacto en diversas ramas del conocimiento hace necesario capacitar a los estudiantes de educación superior en el desarrollo de competencias digitales de distinto tipo. El auge de la inteligencia artificial generativa ha supuesto la necesidad de repensar el modo de relacion...

The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument is a common instrument for measuring organizational culture in English-speaking countries based on four factors: Clan, ad hoc, Market and Hierarchy. However, to date, there is no proper translation of the scale into Spanish. In this study, we describe the translation and adaptation of the instrument...

En la actualidad, las universidades deben fomentar la empleabilidad de sus egresados, facilitándoles una formación que potencie y desarrolle su sentido de la iniciativa y del emprendimiento. Conseguir el fomento de ese espíritu emprendedor requiere de la utilización de metodologías innovadoras y motivadoras, como es el caso de la gamificación, así...

Detección de necesidades formativas: definición, modelos de aplicación y metodologías de aplicación a través de organismos públicos. ISBN: 978-84-18329-17-3

The happy-productive worker thesis (HPWT) is considered the Holy Grail of management research, and it proposes caeteris paribus, happy workers show higher performance than their unhappy counterparts. However, eudaimonic well-being in the relationship between happiness and performance has been understudied. This paper provides a systematized review...

Organizations and age management are key factors for achieving sustainable workplaces and careers. Thus, it is important to understand how different types of organizations deliver Human Resource (HR) practices to employees at different stages of life and how those employees perceive them. Therefore, the present study aims to analyze age differences...

Research has progressed in theoretically and conceptually defining career sustainability and its indicators. However, research is needed to understand the relationship between those indicators and the way individual and organizational factors contribute to it over time. We add to this literature by considering performance and wellbeing as indicator...

A weekly study on workers’ telework experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary results after the first three weeks of telework.

Traditional Human Resource Management (HRM) focusing on maintaining the status quo is no longer in the spotlight. Sustainable HRM has become the new approach, emphasizing the need to attend to organizational results directed toward reaching different goals and integrating the needs of diverse stakeholders. Moreover, in response to the challenges th...

El bienestar de los trabajadores se ha convertido en uno de los resultados organizacionales más importantes. La investigación en este campo se focaliza tradicionalmente en empresas capitalistas, pero las organizaciones pueden presentar distintas formas jurídicas. Nuestro objetivo es analizar si la forma jurídica juega un papel diferencial en el bie...

Employees’ wellbeing and performance are two important indicators of the sustainability of their careers. Research has generally assumed a synergetic relationship between performance and wellbeing, but empirical results have been inconsistent. In the present study, we used the relationship between performance and wellbeing as a proxy for sustainabl...

Research on workers’ proactive behaviors has increased in recent years, emphasizing the need for a more active workforce. In this context, research has been carried out on idiosyncratic deals (i-deals), that is, individualized work arrangements that employees negotiate with their employers about aspects that are mutually beneficial. Because this re...

Human resources practices have become an essential tool in organizations to increase the performance and welfare of workers. However, the study of the mechanisms that exist between this relationship (black box) has shown that this relationship is not always positive. In this way, two approaches appear as relevant in the study of prac-tices and well...

The purpose of this paper is to refine and validate a Human Resource practices (HRP) scale to measure employees' perceptions and test a two-tier model structured in eight practices and two bundles. In a sample of 554 employees, an EFA (Exploratory Factor Analysis) offered six factors that explained about 70% of the variance. Then, with 1647 employe...

La realidad y la literatura científica de la empresa social han ido adquiriendo mayor relevancia durante los últimos años en España, aunque no ha llegado a equipararse a los niveles de otros países europeos, en los cuales el concepto goza de un mayor reconocimiento y desarrollo. Si bien se pueden identificar ejemplos de empresas sociales en nuestro...

El objeto del presente estudio es analizar el grado de institucionalización de las empresas sociales en España. En primer lugar se determinará el concepto de empresa social en el ámbito científico para poder establecer qué entidades de la realidad española se pueden considerar empresas sociales en función de los criterios teóricos establecidos. En...

1 Bienestar sostenible en el trabajo en tiempos de crisis: hacia una estrategia de prevención de riesgos laborales viable y duradera RESUMEN / ABSTRACT Identificar las prácticas de recursos humanos que promueven el bienestar y el desempeño laboral es uno de los retos que afrontan los psicólogos organizacionales en el actual periodo de crisis económ...

El presente artículo trata de establecer una base teórica en torno al concepto de Empresa Social y cuál es el management más adecuado para ellas. Un concepto que está teniendo en los últimos años una importancia sin precedentes, tanto desde las altas esferas políticas, como en el campo empresarial y académico, con numerosos artículos escritos que s...

Dentro del entramado de las empresas sociales, cabe destacar las Empresas de Inserción (EI), las cuales tienen que competir en una situación de inferioridad en el mercado. El trabajo se articula en un análisis de los diferentes aspectos de la dirección de las EI, insistiendo en el uso de las herramientas de la Dirección Estratégica. Una vez definid...