Robert G. Hamlin PhD, MPhil, Hussain Alhejji PhD, Taran Patel PhD
{"title":"Perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness within multinational corporations in Saudi Arabia: The role of Islamic and Wasta values","authors":"Robert G. Hamlin PhD, MPhil, Hussain Alhejji PhD, Taran Patel PhD","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21516","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21516","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) presents a promising yet volatile environment for international business. US-centric models dominate management/leadership studies in the Arab Gulf Region, while emic, indigenous, and context-specific studies remain scarce. To rectify this epistemic injustice, we have conducted a qualitative Type 3 (emic-as-emic) indigenous ‘critical incident' study of managerial behavior exhibited by expat and local managers within MNCs operating in Saudi Arabia. This has led to an emergent KSA-related two-factor taxonomy comprised of 15 behavioral dimensions (BDs) that differentiate effective managers from ineffective managers, as perceived by their Saudi colleague managers and staff. The positive (effective), and most of the negative (ineffective) BDs are endorsed by Islamic and tribal Wasta values, thus lending support to literature on culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories, while simultaneously calling for increased attention toward proximal cultural factors rather than distal national cultural dimensions. Comparing our findings against those of an equivalent study in the United Arab Emirates reveals significant similarities and interesting differences, thus challenging the notion of a homogenous ‘Arab culture'. The derived taxonomy offers an insightful, contextually relevant, and richly described understanding of specific types of managerial behavior that managers within MNCs in Saudi Arabia, and perhaps in other Arab Gulf desert countries, should strive to emulate or conversely avoid if they are to be perceived effective by their respective superiors, peers, and subordinates. After discussing the theoretical and practical implications of our findings, we outline the limitations of the study and suggest several directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"35 3","pages":"327-361"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Malar Hirudayaraj, Bhagyashree Barhate, Gary N. McLean
{"title":"Work conditions of interstate migrant workers in India: A critical realist exploration","authors":"Malar Hirudayaraj, Bhagyashree Barhate, Gary N. McLean","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21515","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21515","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdowns were flashpoints that exposed the vulnerabilities of low-skilled interstate migrants that have persisted for years across the globe and demanded a critical examination of their work experiences and conditions. Unlike migrants who cross national borders for employment and economic reasons, internal migrants migrate within the country in search of better livelihood options. However, while the problems of low-skilled immigrants who cross national borders attract research attention, the experiences of internal migrants have not been adequately researched. Using critical realism as a framework, we investigated the precarious working conditions of one of India's most vulnerable groups of workers—interstate migrant workers. Our findings showed that, despite short-term positive outcomes, interstate migration does not guarantee freedom from poverty, precarity, or powerlessness. The conspicuous absence of formal opportunities to develop their potential reiterates their status as a marginalized, forgotten, and exploited group of workers, also neglected by human resource development (HRD) researchers. HRD has a critical role to play in the short term by providing skill training and in the long term by advocating for policy changes to ensure the well-being and empowerment of migrant workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"35 4","pages":"431-453"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135900142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information for Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"34 3","pages":"349-354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21444","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering our uneconomic growth model: Human resource development's role in advancing sustainability","authors":"Toby Egan PhD, Sewon Kim PhD","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21514","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21514","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"34 3","pages":"257-263"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42278390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivated to learn? Investigating the link of achievement goals and informal workplace learning of lecturers in higher education","authors":"Julian Decius, Julia Hein","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21513","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21513","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on lecturers' achievement goals and their impact on professional learning in higher education is a topic that has assumed importance in recent years. However, previous studies have neglected the multidimensionality of informal workplace learning and ignored the differences between self-based and social-based informal learning. Based on the Achievement Goal Theory, we propose positive links between learning approach goals and self-based informal learning, as well as positive links between normative goals and social-based informal learning. Findings from a first cross-sectional study with 317 lecturers from higher education institutions in Germany show associations that are largely consistent with our hypotheses. While learning approach goals are moderately related to self-based informal learning, normative avoidance goals are slightly related to social-based informal learning. In a second study, 185 lecturers from higher education institutions in Austria received three text-based vignettes and answered a survey about which teaching-related informal learning activities they would use in specific situations (i.e., before, during, and after the teaching phase). The results replicate most of the findings from the first study; however, the results are not stable when various control variables are included. Moreover, the associations between achievement goals and informal learning are largely consistent across the simulated semester, although lecturers with strong learning approach goals engage in self-based informal learning particularly before and during the teaching phase. Our findings provide support for the notion that personal motivational characteristics, in the form of achievement goals, are associated with informal learning in the workplace. We conclude by discussing practical implications for those teaching in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"35 2","pages":"213-234"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42967609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating meaningful work for employees: The role of inclusive leadership","authors":"Azadeh Shafaei PhD, Mehran Nejati PhD","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21512","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21512","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Meaningfulness is a fundamental psychological need and can result in numerous positive outcomes for employees and organizations. However, little is known about how inclusive leadership can promote employees' sense of meaningful work. Drawing upon self-determination theory, we posit that inclusive leadership enhances meaningful work through creating psychological safety and fostering learning from errors. Inclusive leadership improves work meaningfulness as it contributes to better job attributes. Study hypotheses were tested using a multiple-study research design, including a two-wave field study of 317 full-time employees (Study 1) and a randomized experimental vignette methodology with 440 participants (Study 2). Findings from both studies support the hypothesized mediation model and suggest that inclusive leaders enhance employees' meaningful work mediated through psychological safety and learning from errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"35 2","pages":"189-211"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42970210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information for Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"34 2","pages":"245-250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21442","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50127734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Top 12 reasons your qualitative research will be accepted by a journal”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21511","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21511","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Egan, T., Shirmohammadi, M., Kim, S. and Akdere, M. (2023), Top 12 reasons your qualitative research will be accepted by a journal. <i>Human Resource Development Quarterly, 34</i>, 7–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21500</p><p>In the published version of Appendix, A, row 9, the surnames ‘Eidh’ and ‘Betero’ were incorrectly captured in the reference.</p><p>This should have read:</p><p>Eldh, A. C., Arestedt, L. & Bertero, C. (2020). Quotations in qualitative studies: Reflections on constituents, custom and purpose. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1–6.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"34 4","pages":"481"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21511","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135741650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity in the workforce: Whose interests are being served?","authors":"Marilyn Y. Byrd, Chaunda L. Scott","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21510","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"34 2","pages":"123-125"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42800205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikolaos Pahos, Eleanna Galanaki, Beatrice I. J. M. van der Heijden
{"title":"Multi-level effects of human resource bundles on the performance of aging employees","authors":"Nikolaos Pahos, Eleanna Galanaki, Beatrice I. J. M. van der Heijden","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21501","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21501","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previously, scholars have studied the need for implementing different human resource (HR) configurations that foster aging employees' outcomes, but there is a lack of evidence at the group level. Using the framework of Social Exchange Theory, coupled with the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation theory, we examine associations between bundles of HR practices, age (measured both as calendar age and proportion of an aging workforce), and performance, at both the individual and group levels. First, the outcomes of our multi-level analysis show that bundles of maintenance-enhancing HR practices are positively related to performance at both levels, whereas bundles of growth-enhancing HR practices associate with performance only at the group level. Second, age relates positively to performance, both at the individual and group levels. At the group level, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between the proportion of an aging workforce and group performance, such that a group's performance benefits from the participation of older employees up to a maximum proportion of 56%. Finally, age negatively moderates the association between growth-enhancing HR bundles and performance at both the individual and group levels. Results highlight the value of older employees for working organizations, and the importance of adopting HR practices that consider maintenance and growth-related needs across the life-span, while also providing useful theoretical and practical implications for Human Resource Development scholars and professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"35 2","pages":"165-188"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48895386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}