Unai Elorza

Mondragon University | Mu · Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Production

This study investigates whether employee perceptions of High Involvement Work Systems (HIWS) mediate the positive relationship between implemented‐HIWS and the parallel outcomes of employee well‐being and organisational performance. To test these relationships, data was collected from 20,646 employees and 2066 managers in 198 organisations from Spa...

Employability, talent and/or motivation of people can be a source of sustainable competitive advantage; difficult for competitors to imitate. The involvement of people, and more specifically employee participation, has been identified as a key management tool to develop this advantage. Traditionally however, the industrial relations and personnel m...

In the fast-changing global workplace of today, maintaining competitive advantage has become imperative to survival. Employees matter today more than ever since they become non-imitable sources of firm uniqueness that can deliver value to every stakeholder. Based on this, the field of Strategic HRM has gained a special interest among researchers an...

Research has shown that transformational leaders are able, through emotional contagion mechanisms, to transmit their emotions and boost positive feelings among their followers. Although research on leadership and team processes have shown a positive relation between transformational leadership and workers' well-being, there is a lack of studies exa...

The strategic human resource management literature lacks longitudinal studies, and the causal associations between human resource management (HRM) and organisational performance (OP) remain underexplored. We tested cross‐lagged relationships between high‐involvement work systems (HIWS), job satisfaction, and store productivity based on a large long...

Purpose This paper examines the extent to which investment in human capital (HC) influences employee well-being, focusing on companies in the Basque Country in Northern Spain. Specifically, it analyzes the effects of worker perceptions of high-involvement work system (HIWS) on job satisfaction (JS) and affective commitment (AC), directly and throug...

The collective construct of Team Emotional Intelligence (TEI) has been widely used and discussed. However, although several studies have examined the relationship between individual emotional intelligence and transformational leadership, few reports have explored the TEI of leadership teams. The aim of this study was to develop a scale to measure T...

Group Model Building (GMB) is a methodology which involves a target group in the business of model formulation and conceptualization. It is crucial to obtain extended formal models and accelerate group decision support for future model building. In this paper the development of two GMB workshops for two Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) from...

In our increasingly globalised economy, managing continuous change and remaining competitive has become a central issue for organisations in the industrial sector. Building a sustainable competitive advantage through effective decision making and the use of decision making tools has been widely studied [1,2]. The success of a company will be depend...

Project management discipline has undergone significant changes in the past decades (Hanisch and Wald in Project Management Journal 42(3):4–22, 2011). The project management influencing factors have been the subject of empirical studies. This paper examines the link between some of these factors and project success, through a survey with the partic...

Group Model Building (GMB) is a methodology which involves a target group in the business of model formulation and conceptualization. It is crucial to obtain extended formal models and accelerate group decision support for future model building. In this paper the development of two GMB workshops for two Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) from...

Decision making inside any managerial process is so complex due to the no linear interrelations inside the system. Public policies should be efficient tools for manage this huge and complex systems called society and composed by diverse agents, rules and relations. This paper proposes social simulation, concretely models built using Agent Based Mod...

Project management discipline has undergone significant changes in the past decades (Hanisch & Wald 2011). The project management influencing factors have been the subject of empirical studies. This paper examines the link between some of these factors and project success, through a survey with the participation of 121 project managers in the Basqu...

Managing complex systems in which heterogeneous agents act according to non linear behaviors turns into a difficult task. Public policy evaluators are dealing with difficult problems to define efficient public policy management. Until now many methods have been used basing on archaic methodologies or intuitions with no empirical evidences. Simulati...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how management and employee perspectives of high-performance work systems (HPWS) relate to employee discretionary behaviour. In addition, the paper examines to what extent the relationship between employees’ perception of the HPWS and discretionary behaviour varies among different organizations/g...

Several studies in strategic human resource management have described a relationship between people-management practices and organizational performance. However, the mediating processes that explain such a relationship remain unexplored. This study examines how both the actual people-management system (assessed by managers) and the perceived system...