DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE
OF LABOUR LAWS AMONG EMPLOYEES

SULPHEY, MM, AA ALANZI and Martin KLEPEK. DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE OF LABOUR LAWS AMONG EMPLOYEES. E & M EKONOMIE A MANAGEMENT. LIBEREC 1: TECHNICAL UNIV LIBEREC, vol. 24, No 4, p. 86-104. ISSN 1212-3609. doi:10.15240/tul/001/2021-4-006. 2021.

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - 56701
AU  - Sulphey, MM - Alanzi, AA - Klepek, Martin
PY  - 2021
TI  - DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE OF LABOUR LAWS AMONG EMPLOYEES
JF  - E & M EKONOMIE A MANAGEMENT
VL  - 24
IS  - 4
SP  - 86-104
EP  - 86-104
PB  - TECHNICAL UNIV LIBEREC
SN  - 12123609
KW  - Labour laws
KW  - employer-employee relations
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - scale development
KW  - organizational justice
UR  - https://dspace.tul.cz/bitstream/handle/15240/161027/EM_4_2021_06.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
N2  - Labour legislations provide guidelines to prevent unfair labour practices and organizational injustice. All employment and labour laws propose standards regarding wages, wellbeing, safety, and equitable treatment, which reduces conflicts. However, informational imbalances between employers and employees prevent employees from having adequate knowledge about labour legislation. Consequently, some employers treat employees inconsistently and that could be detrimental to them. A practical solution to this problem is making employees aware of the provisions of labour laws. As an initial step towards this, there is a definite need to assess employees' awareness regarding labour laws. Nevertheless, there is a lack of a standardized tool to measure the knowledge level of labour legislation, which has impaired empirical examinations. Using randomly collected 346 samples from two different types of industries, the present study constructed and validated a tool to measure labour law knowledge. The study has followed a simple scale development framework consisting of item generation, scale development, and psychometric evaluation. The measurement tool has been developed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The final questionnaire consists of 17 items under four factors, exhibited significant reliability and validity. The developed tool is expected to fill the gap in the literature and stimulate further empirical research. The study also examined the difference in the knowledge level based on the demographics of the sample. The results show a significant difference between the knowledge levels based on gender, citizenship, type of industry, and qualifications. Future research directions are proposed at the end of the paper, together with the limitations of this study.
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Original name	DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE OF LABOUR LAWS AMONG EMPLOYEES
Authors	SULPHEY, MM, AA ALANZI and Martin KLEPEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition	E & M EKONOMIE A MANAGEMENT, LIBEREC 1, TECHNICAL UNIV LIBEREC, 2021, 1212-3609.

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Original language	English
Type of outcome	Article in a journal
Field of Study	50204 Business and management
Country of publisher	Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL
RIV identification code	RIV/47813059:19520/21:A0000273
Organization unit	School of Business Administration in Karvina
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2021-4-006
UT WoS	000733816600006
Keywords in English	Labour laws; employer-employee relations; Saudi Arabia; scale development; organizational justice
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Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: doc. Ing. Martin Klepek, Ph.D., učo 21606. Changed: 28/2/2022 18:23.

Abstract

Labour legislations provide guidelines to prevent unfair labour practices and organizational injustice. All employment and labour laws propose standards regarding wages, wellbeing, safety, and equitable treatment, which reduces conflicts. However, informational imbalances between employers and employees prevent employees from having adequate knowledge about labour legislation. Consequently, some employers treat employees inconsistently and that could be detrimental to them. A practical solution to this problem is making employees aware of the provisions of labour laws. As an initial step towards this, there is a definite need to assess employees' awareness regarding labour laws. Nevertheless, there is a lack of a standardized tool to measure the knowledge level of labour legislation, which has impaired empirical examinations. Using randomly collected 346 samples from two different types of industries, the present study constructed and validated a tool to measure labour law knowledge. The study has followed a simple scale development framework consisting of item generation, scale development, and psychometric evaluation. The measurement tool has been developed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The final questionnaire consists of 17 items under four factors, exhibited significant reliability and validity. The developed tool is expected to fill the gap in the literature and stimulate further empirical research. The study also examined the difference in the knowledge level based on the demographics of the sample. The results show a significant difference between the knowledge levels based on gender, citizenship, type of industry, and qualifications. Future research directions are proposed at the end of the paper, together with the limitations of this study.

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