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Linking high involvement human resource practices to employee proactivity: The role of work engagement and learning goal orientation

Ceyda Maden (Department of International Trade, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey)

Personnel Review

ISSN: 0048-3486

Publication date: 3 August 2015

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between employees’ perceptions of high-involvement human resource (HR) practices, their levels of work engagement and learning goal orientation, and their proactive behaviors.

Design/methodology/approach

The sample of the study included 240 employees who work in Istanbul, Turkey, chosen from the major industries that represent the economic profile of this city. The hypotheses were tested with structural equation modeling procedure.

Findings

The results revealed that apart from perceived recognition, all the perceived high-involvement HR practices were positively related to employees’ work engagement, which in turn predicted their learning goal orientation. Besides, the results indicated that work engagement affected both individual innovation and feedback inquiry significantly, whereas learning goal orientation predicted only feedback inquiry. Finally, the findings revealed that only perceived empowerment and competency development practices were linked to feedback inquiry through work engagement and learning goal orientation.

Research limitations/implications

The generalizability of the findings is limited. The data are based on self-report and the use of cross-sectional data does not allow any definite conclusions to be drawn about causality.

Practical implications

Organizations that aim to increase employee proactivity need first to identify the means of increasing work engagement. One way of increasing engagement levels among employees is to invest in various kinds of supportive, high-involvement HR practices, such as competence development and information sharing.

Originality/value

This study explores the notion of high-involvement HR practices with employee proactivity in an integrative way by viewing work engagement as a latent mechanism that links high-involvement HR practices to proactive behaviors both directly and indirectly via increased learning goal orientation.

Keywords

  • Quantitative
  • Learning goal orientation
  • Work engagement
  • High-involvement human resource practices
  • Proactive behaviours

Citation

Maden, C. (2015), "Linking high involvement human resource practices to employee proactivity: The role of work engagement and learning goal orientation", Personnel Review, Vol. 44 No. 5, pp. 720-738. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-01-2014-0030

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