Personnel Review: Volume 51 Issue 1

Editor-in-Chief Note: Farewell

Editorial

Improving performance through leaders' forgiveness: the mediating role of radical innovation

The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between leaders' forgiveness and organizational performance using radical innovation as an explanatory variable.

Insecurity and turnover as robots take charge: impact of neuroticism and change-related uncertainty

Data were collected using a survey questionnaire of 379 participants from business process outsourcing (BPO) organizations affected by robotic process automation (RPA). Structural…

Freelance job search during times of uncertainty: protean career orientation, career competencies and job search

Freelancers are a growing population of working adults with limited to no organizational support. Yet, their strategies to navigate job search, especially in turbulent times, are…

Investigating leadership and employee well-being in higher education

This article aims to understand the underlying mechanisms through which transformational leadership influences employee job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Specifically, the…

Why do employees struggle to thrive in the workplaces? A look at the impact of abusive supervision

Based on the conservation of resources view, the objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between abusive supervision and workplace thriving. Further, this study…

Cheating, culture and incentives: who deserves a bonus?

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship of perceptions of organizational justice on the ranking of candidates for incentive bonuses and the impact of…

Leaving on a jet plane? The effect of challenge–hindrance stressors, emotional resilience and cultural novelty on self-initiated expatriates' decision to exit China

The number of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) is growing, yet we know relatively little about their work experiences, especially how they react to stress. The purpose of this…

Entrepreneurial alertness and self-perceived employability: a virtuous marriage for career development

Building on the importance of students becoming entrepreneurs of their own career, this research aimed to achieve two main objectives: to empirically test the sequential…

Enhancing intercultural task performance: examining the roles of social complexity belief and cultural intelligence

This study contributes to the literature by explicating why individuals become effective in performing tasks in intercultural context. Drawing from the social axioms theory and…

Are high performance work systems compatible with the extending working life agenda?

The paper examines the compatibility of two UK policy priorities – extending working life (EWL) and the promotion of national economic performance through high performance work…

Workforce age profile effects on job resources, work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior

The issue of age in organizations has become increasingly salient given expanding age profiles, from millennials to baby boomers. The purpose of this article is to improve the…

Does HRM's reality fit with those of others? Exploring and understanding HR attributions

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature by providing insights about how employees make attributions about the reasons why management adopts HRM…

Understanding inclusion in the retail industry: incorporating the majority perspective

The aim of this paper is to move away from the focus upon the drivers of diversity to consider the drivers of inclusion in the workplace. The research outlined addresses this by…

Human resource analytics: a review and bibliometric analysis

This paper aims to identify the current research trends and set the future research agenda in the area of human resource (HR) analytics by an extensive review of the existing…

Psychological assessment in human resource management: discrepancies between theory and practice and two examples of integration

Psychological assessment refers to the process whereby different methods and techniques are used to test hypotheses about people and their psychological characteristics…

Is temporal leadership always beneficial? The role of job passion and synchrony preference

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between temporal leadership and employees' innovative behavior while considering the competitive mediators of harmonious…

Does person–organization spirituality fit stimulate ethical and spiritual leaders: an empirical study in Jordan

This paper emphasizes the theoretical relevance that workplace spirituality may add to the person–organization (P-O) fit theory through the examination of a framework that…

When career success enhances employees' life satisfaction: different effects of two types of goal orientations

Drawing on goal orientation theory, the authors propose a moderated mediation model, wherein objective career success is positively related to employees' life satisfaction through…

Supervisor bottom-line mentality and subordinates' unethical pro-organizational behavior

The multitude of high-profile corporate scandals has prompted the need for more nuanced understanding of factors within organizations that may influence unethical…

Does procedural justice climate increase the identification and engagement of migrant workers? A group engagement model perspective

Migrant workers often suffer from social exclusion in the workplace and therefore identify less with their organization and engage less with their work. To address this issue, the…

Keep your mouth shut until I feel good: testing the moderated mediation model of leader's threat to competence, self-defense tactics, and voice rejection

Although voice endorsement is essential for individuals, teams and organizational performance, leaders who consider followers' voice to be threatening are reluctant to implement…