Evidence-based HRM: Volume 9 Issue 1

Public service motivation in the Chinese public and private sectors

Dermot McCarthy, Ping Wei, Fabian Homberg, Vurain Tabvuma

The purpose of this paper is to statistically test if the public service motivation (PSM) measure operates in the same way across the public and private sectors of a municipal…

Impacts of supportive HR practices and organisational climate on the attitudes of HR managers towards gender diversity – a mediated model approach

Kumar Biswas, Brendan Boyle, Sneh Bhardwaj

Using the theoretical lens of the behavioural perspective on HRM, this study examined a mediated model to understand the extent to which organisational factors such as supportive…

Measuring school leaders' adaptability in the UAE: development of a scale to measure leadership adaptability

Ali Aldhaheri

This paper presents a quantitative measurement instrument for Leadership Adaptability.

Construct validity of public service motivation in India: a comparison of two measures

Rajneesh Gupta, Sanket Dash, Shiva Kakkar, Ramashankar Yadav

Public service motivation (PSM) is a universal construct, but indigenous traditions and culture of a country are known to influence its measurement. Currently, no research on PSM…

The relationship between leadership styles and employee-driven innovation: the mediating role of leader–member exchange

Chukwuemeka K. Echebiri, Stein Amundsen

The purpose of this study is to explore the association of two opposite leadership styles with employee-driven innovation and how the leader–member exchange mediates these…

Servant leadership and followers' creativity: does climate for creativity matter?

Mohammed Aboramadan

This research proposes, building on social exchange theory and the componential theory of creativity, a model of servant leadership to investigate its effect on followers'…

Age and tenure diversity on the work floor: Evidence from a natural field experiment in production

Kirsten Thommes, Janny Klabuhn

Past research on how to compose a team is ambiguous, especially with respect to diversity dimensions. The authors argue that previous inconsistencies in results have arisen for…