Preliminary development and validation of the perceived strengths-based human resource system scale
International Journal of Manpower
ISSN: 0143-7720
Article publication date: 22 September 2021
Issue publication date: 25 July 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of the current article was to propose the strengths-based human resource (HR) system construct as well as develop and validate the perceived strengths-based HR system scale by using three independent studies.
Design/methodology/approach
Study 1 mainly adopted exploratory factor analysis to test whether fifteen items proposed by the authors can represent the perceived strengths-based HR system construct. The aim of Study 2 was to examine the discriminant validity and criteria validity of the fifteen-item perceived strengths-based HR system scale and reliability of this scale. By structural equation modeling analysis, Study 3 primarily tested the incremental predictive validity of the perceived strengths-based HR system for employee performance (i.e. task performance and innovative behavior) after controlling for the perceived high-performance work system (HPWS) and perceived high-commitment work system (HCWS).
Findings
Study 1 showed that initial fifteen items of the perceived strengths-based HR system appropriately are loaded on one factor and exhibit a good reliability. Study 2 found that there is good discriminant validity between the perceived strengths-based HR system, perceived organizational support, perceived supervisory career support, and work engagement, and the perceived strengths-based HR system exhibits better convergent validity and criteria validity. Study 3 demonstrated that the perceived strengths-based HR system could significantly predict employee performance (i.e. task performance and innovative behavior) even after controlling for perceived HPWS and HCWS.
Originality/value
The current article contributes to advancing HR theory and research and provides a valuable tool for future empirical research on the strengths-based HR system.
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Acknowledgements
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. The authors are grateful to the employees who participated in this study.
Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the North China Electric Power University and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Funding: This study was supported by the “Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2020MS046)”.
Informed Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from HD (believedh@126.com), upon reasonable request.
Citation
Ding, H., Yu, E. and Xu, S. (2022), "Preliminary development and validation of the perceived strengths-based human resource system scale", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 43 No. 4, pp. 1019-1032. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2020-0466
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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