Personnel Review: Volume 47 Issue 1

HRM practices of MNEs and domestic firms in Ghana: divergence or convergence?

Desmond Tutu Ayentimi, John Burgess, Kerry Brown

The purpose of this paper is to adopt the convergence-divergence perspective to examine the extent of similarities and differences in human resource management practices between…

Abusive supervision and knowledge sharing: the moderating role of organizational tenure

Seckyoung Loretta Kim, Seung Yeon Son, Seokhwa Yun

Drawing on social exchange theory (SET) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the negative consequence of abusive supervision on…

Personality traits, social support, and training transfer: The mediating mechanism of motivation to improve work through learning

Kueh Hua Ng, Rusli Ahmad

Substantially few or no known empirical studies have explicitly focused on the higher-order construct of motivation in human resource development (HRD), namely, motivation to…

Instrumental work values and responses to HR practices: A study of job satisfaction in a Chinese manufacturer

Meng-Long Huo, Peter Boxall

Grounded in the theory of person-organisation fit, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which instrumental work values influence the relationship between HR…

Perception of politics and job outcomes: moderating role of Islamic work ethic

Mohammed Y.A. Rawwas, Basharat Javed, Muhammad Naveed Iqbal

The purpose of this paper is to expand previous theories of motivation and religious ethics by examining the moderation effect of Islamic work ethic (IWE) on the relationship…

How and when team regulatory focus influences team innovation and member creativity

Ci-Rong Li, Chun-Xuan Li, Chen-Ju Lin

The purpose of this paper is to test how team regulatory focus may relate to individual creativity and team innovation; and address the fit/misfit issue of team regulatory focus…

How does managerial coaching affect individual learning? The mediating roles of team and individual reflexivity

Makoto Matsuo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of team and individual reflexivity in linking managerial coaching with individual learning.

The performance effects of attitudes of management vis-à-vis employee representatives in Belgium

Annette van den Berg, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Christophe Boone, Olivier Van der Brempt

The purpose of this paper is to move beyond the usual analysis of the effects of worker representation. Instead of estimating the impact of the mere presence of works councils on…

A model for the comparison of business units

Momčilo Dobrodolac, Libor Švadlenka, Marjana Čubranić-Dobrodolac, Svetlana Čičević, Bojan Stanivuković

The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for the comparison of business units and to illustrate its implementation. Job stress is introduced as a mediator variable. A…

Creating strategic fit: Aligning servant leadership with organizational structure and strategy

Nathan Eva, Sen Sendjaya, Daniel Prajogo, Andrew Cavanagh, Mulyadi Robin

While research and adoption of servant leadership are on the increase, little is known about the mechanisms through which it affects organizational performance. Drawing on the…

Stereotype threat and older worker’s attitudes: a mediation model

Eduardo Oliveira, Carlos Cabral Cardoso

Taking a social identity approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which age-based stereotype threat mediates the relationships between older workers’…

Worker participation in union activities: a conceptual review

Ginni Chawla, Tripti Singh, Rupali Singh, Sonal Agarwal

Viewed in the context of liberalization, privatization and globalization, the socio-economic and legal environment facing the unions have changed, throwing them into clutches of…

Workplace bullying and employee silence: A moderated mediation model of psychological contract violation and workplace friendship

Arpana Rai, Upasna A. Agarwal

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of workplace bullying on employee silence (defensive, relational, and ineffectual silence), and to test the mediating role of…

The relationship between the enabling use of controls, employee empowerment, and performance

Kevin Baird, Sophia Su, Rahat Munir

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between Simons’ (2000) enabling (beliefs and interactive) use of controls with employee empowerment, and the subsequent…