Personnel Review: Volume 49 Issue 2

Determinants of innovative behaviors among self-initiated expatriates

Taiba Hussain, Perihan Iren, John Rice

Expatriate mobility is increasing globally, in volume and diversity. A growing element of this overall increase has been the greater share of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs…

When investment in employee development promotes knowledge sharing behavior in an uncertain post-Soviet context

Sanat Kozhakhmet, Sharmila Jayasingam, Nauman Majeed, Samia Jamshed

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of perceived investment in employee development (PIED) on knowledge sharing (KS) behavior by examining the mediating role of…

Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance

Jun Xie, Qihai Huang, Hongli Wang, Minghao Shen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the curvilinear relationship between perceived negative workplace gossip and target employee’s task performance, and the moderating…

Dealing with temporariness: Generational effects on temporary agency workers’ employment relationships

Filipa Sobral, Eddy S. Ng, Filipa Castanheira, Maria José Chambel, Bas Koene

A major trend in the changing nature of work is the increasing use of temporary workers. Although common among students, older employees have joined the ranks of temporary workers…

Zooming in on the workplace bullying and turnover intentions pathway: The role of well-being and a cultural boundary condition

Saima Ahmad, Ahmad Kaleem

Despite the well-established association between workplace bullying and turnover intentions, the mechanisms underlying this relationship and its boundary conditions remain…

The mediating role of organizational commitment between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior: Power distance as moderator

Khawaja Jehanzeb, Jagannath Mohanty

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) while considering the mediating effect of…

Can employees perform well if they fear for their lives? Yes – if they have a passion for work

Inam Ul Haq, Dirk De Clercq, Muhammad Umer Azeem

With a basis in conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of championing behaviour in the relationship between employees’…

Leadership influences? It depends on followers! The relationship between the Ohio State leader behaviors, employee self-regulatory focus, and task performance

Dongwon Choi, Minyoung Cheong, Jihye Lee

While the Ohio State leadership approach had been forgotten for several decades, scholars in the field of leadership have begun revisiting the validity and the role of leader…

Work–life programmes and organisational outcomes: the role of the human resource system

Kohinur Akter, Muhammad Ali, Artemis Chang

Empirical findings on the link between work–life programmes and organisational performance have been inconsistent, demanding further investigation of contextual factors. The paper…

The measurement of flow and social flow at work: a 30-year systematic review of the literature

Pedro Jácome de Moura Jr, Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini

The purpose of this paper is to review three decades of the literature on flow measurement and propose issues to advance research on the measurement of social flow at work.

Empowerment and organizational identification: The mediating role of leader–member exchange and the moderating role of leader trustworthiness

Alper Ertürk, Taner Albayrak

The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanism through which perceived empowerment practices in a firm influence employees’ organizational identification. Specifically, the…

HRM reforms and job-related well-being of academics

Jie Xia, Mingqiong Mike Zhang, Jiuhua Cherrie Zhu, Di Fan, Ramanie Samaratunge

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of human resource management (HRM) reforms on job-related well-being of academics in Chinese universities. It also tests the…

Leading others to go beyond the call of duty: A dyadic study of servant leadership and psychological ethical climate

Sen Sendjaya, Nathan Eva, Mulyadi Robin, Lyfie Sugianto, Ivan ButarButar, Charmine Hartel

Interest in servant leadership has grown exponentially over the past decade as evident in the surge of academic- and practitioner-oriented publications on the subject. While prior…

The relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ internal and external community citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of prosocial motivation

Nathan Eva, Alexander Newman, Abby Jingzi Zhou, Steven Shijin Zhou

Community citizenship behaviors (CCBs) of employees help organizations to promote a socially conscious image. However, there is still a significant gap in the knowledge as to how…

Reciprocity of trust between managers and team members

Vicente Martínez-Tur, Agustín Molina, Carolina Moliner, Esther Gracia, Luisa Andreu, Enrique Bigne, Oto Luque

The purpose of this paper is to propose that the manager’s perception of the service quality delivered by his/her team acts as a precursor of his/her trust in team members. In…

Does supervisors’ mindfulness keep employees from engaging in cyberloafing out of compassion at work?

Pablo Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara, Mercedes Viera-Armas, Gabriel De Blasio García

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the appearance of cyberloafing at work, that is, the use of the company’s internet connection for personal purposes, may be due to…