Julian Decius, Michael Knappstein, Niclas Schaper, Andreas Seifert
{"title":"Investigating the multidimensionality of informal learning: Validation of a short measure for white-collar workers","authors":"Julian Decius, Michael Knappstein, Niclas Schaper, Andreas Seifert","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21461","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21461","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The challenges resulting from increasing digitalization and globalization require flexible continuing education for white-collar workers. Especially informal learning becomes increasingly important in the modern workplace. Practitioners want to promote informal learning among employees, researchers want to unveil conducive contextual conditions for informal learning, but they lack an appropriate, validated measure. Based on the octagon model of informal workplace learning (Decius et al., <i>Human Resource Development Quarterly</i>, 2019, 30, 495–535) and an existing 24-item scale for blue-collar workers, we present a short version of eight items for use among white-collar workers. Using three independent samples of 695, 500, and 3134 German employees, we show that the second-order factor structure—following the multidimensional octagon model—has a better fit compared with a model in which all items load on a single factor. The short scale is strongly correlated with the original full scale. The scale's reliability is satisfying (α = 0.76/0.77/0.85; ω = 0.78/0.78/0.86), considering the heterogeneous conceptual nature of informal learning. Regarding criterion validity, we found theoretically expected correlations with job demands, job autonomy, knowledge/skill acquisition, age, and self-directed learning orientation. Furthermore, the scale reveals measurement invariance across sociodemographic characteristics of gender and educational background. We also discuss implications for research and practice of the new informal learning measure among white-collar workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"34 1","pages":"45-74"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hrdq.21461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46255025","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":"Cohort-based leadership development for high-potential employees: A model for programmatic design","authors":"Tani K. Bialek Ph.D., Marcia S. Hagen Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21459","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21459","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leadership development is a top priority for many organizations and a critical driver of success. This qualitative case study research examined ways participation in a cohort-based LDP contributed to HiPo employee's leadership development for the purpose of talent management, including an examination of which programmatic components help promote participant growth. This study illustrates the importance of, and methods to support, better leadership development outcomes for HiPos to improve talent management efforts. This research utilized a method for qualitative analysis and was conducted using a constant comparative method, requiring new findings and interpretations be compared with those previously found during analysis. Data included end-of-program graduate evaluations, semi-structured interviews, and manager evaluation surveys. Findings support the importance of 360-feedback and peer coaching as part of HiPo employee development. Each of these simultaneously improves self-awareness, human capital, networking, and participant well-being; the resulting model provides an illustration of the relationships found.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"33 4","pages":"361-382"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21459","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47495733","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}
Donald G. Gardner, Guo-Hua (Emily) Huang, Jon L. Pierce, Xiongying (Peter) Niu, Cynthia Lee
{"title":"Not just for newcomers: Organizational socialization, employee adjustment and experience, and growth in organization-based self-esteem","authors":"Donald G. Gardner, Guo-Hua (Emily) Huang, Jon L. Pierce, Xiongying (Peter) Niu, Cynthia Lee","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21458","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21458","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the more important responsibilities for HRD professionals is to help employees fit into the organization. This fitting in, or adjustment, to the organization includes the skills to perform one's job, understanding the relationships of one's role to the broader organization, and feeling accepted by one's peers. Onboarding, or more broadly, organizational socialization, is a proven practice that enhances employee adjustment through learning and development. Prior research reveals favorable relationships between organizational socialization (OS) practices and employee adjustment. Much less is known about which aspects of OS the HRD professional should focus on, why employees are motivated to use the knowledge gained from socialization to improve job performance, or whether relationships discovered in past research on newcomers can or should be generalized to more experienced employees. The current research is based on the multidomain, continuous model of OS. Consistent with that model, we found that effective socialization enhances employee organizational adjustment, which subsequently raises their organization-based self-esteem (OBSE), and that OS has stronger relationships with adjustment for less experienced employees than those with more experienced employees. Our results also reveal that adjustment mediated growth in OBSE that accompanied the ongoing process of OS, and that employees who perceived higher levels of socialization had greater increases in OBSE. We discuss the implications of our results for HRD professionals in designing OS programs, particularly as they relate to the targeted employees, and the framing of the communications.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"33 3","pages":"297-319"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48219820","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.21363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"32 3","pages":"443-448"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137630871","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":"Unlearning in the workplace: Antecedents and outcomes","authors":"Eun Jee Kim, Sunyoung Park","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21457","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21457","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the fast-changing world of business, organizations including individuals and groups/teams need to unlearn old knowledge and learn new knowledge and routines to stay competitive. The purpose of this study is to review the current studies on unlearning in organizations and to integrate the findings to provide insights on how to better manage and facilitate the process of unlearning. We reviewed 37 empirical and related studies to reveal the current research perspectives on unlearning in the workplace. We also identified 30 antecedents promoting unlearning and 44 outcomes of unlearning at the individual, group, and organizational levels. These antecedents and outcomes related to learning, knowledge, and innovation are key HRD research topics. Discussion, implications, and recommendations for future research are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"33 3","pages":"273-296"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21457","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44405163","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":"Explosion of people analytics, machine learning, and human resource technologies: Implications and applications for research","authors":"Seung Won Yoon","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21456","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"32 3","pages":"243-250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43130752","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":"On the systems intelligence of a learning organization: Introducing a new measure","authors":"Juha Törmänen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Esa Saarinen","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21455","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce and validate the Organizational Systems Intelligence (OSI) scale, a measurement tool for learning organization, and propose the scale as a useful tool for human resource development (HRD) at the individual level. The scale complements the operationalization of Senge's “Five Disciplines” of the learning organization. OSI provides a new perspective that links employees' perceptions of various seemingly mundane everyday practices with the organizationally desirable effects of a learning organization. The model suggests developmental perspectives that highlight micro-level behavioral, informal, interactional, and accessible-to-all aspects of the learning organization as a route to improvement. Operating in the vernacular and focusing on human experience in organizations, the OSI perspective points to improvement possibilities in and among people in contrast to structural manager-level constructs. It contributes to HRD literature that explores developmental outcomes and theoretical understanding from human experience in contrast to rank, status, structure, or hierarchy. With its bottom-up logic as an operationalization of the Sengean learning organization as a form of applied systems thinking, the model introduces an employee-level perspective of systems thinking in action into the field of HRD. It is demonstrated that with respect to perceived performance, the OSI scale performs equally well as the widely used Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"33 3","pages":"249-272"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46815201","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}
Thomas Garavan, Shalini Srivastava, Poornima Madan, Fergal O'Brien, Gerri Matthews-Smith
{"title":"Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence","authors":"Thomas Garavan, Shalini Srivastava, Poornima Madan, Fergal O'Brien, Gerri Matthews-Smith","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21454","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21454","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many employees experience work–family conflict (WFC) and family–work conflict (FWC), multidimensional states of resource depletion. In this paper, we conceptualize Type A and B personality as resource depletion and resource gain scenarios that have implications for perceptions of WFC and FWC. We draw on conservation of resources (COR) theory to examine the resource loss and gain resulting respectively from Type A and B personality and the resource-generating role of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) on multiple dimensions of WFC and FWC. Utilizing a sample of 305 managers for 15 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) organizations in India, we uncover a fine-grained pattern of results indicating that Type A personality represents resource loss while Type B personality represents resource gain in the context of time, strain and behavior based WFC and FWC. We also found that ability-based EI performed restorative and additive resource functions as a moderator in the context of these relationships. The key outcome of the study is that ability-based EI performs an important role in the context of different types of WFC and FWC because it generates resources to address these conflicts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"33 3","pages":"223-247"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21454","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42452453","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":"The paradoxical effect of responsible leadership on employee cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model","authors":"Jinqiang Zhu, Hongguo Wei, Hai Li, Holly Osburn","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21432","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21432","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on the conservation of resources theory (COR), this study examines the relationship between responsible leadership and counterproductive work behavior of employee cyberloafing. Incorporating related concepts of felt obligation, job stress, and conscientiousness as possible mediators and moderators between responsible leadership and cyberloafing, a field study and a quasi-experimental design were conducted on two data sets. Data from Study 1 showed that while responsible leadership reduced employee cyberloafing through increased felt obligation, it also promoted employee cyberloafing through increasing job stress. Study 2 further showed that conscientiousness moderated the mediating effect of felt obligation between responsible leadership and cyberloafing. The results from this work illustrate the paradoxical mechanisms of self-regulatory resources anticipated from COR.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"32 4","pages":"597-624"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41553815","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}
Matthew W. Hurtienne, Laura E. Hurtienne, Madelyn Kempen
{"title":"Employee engagement: Emerging insight of the millennial manufacturing workforce","authors":"Matthew W. Hurtienne, Laura E. Hurtienne, Madelyn Kempen","doi":"10.1002/hrdq.21453","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hrdq.21453","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Millennial workers are increasingly becoming the largest population of workers in the U.S. workforce (Carter & Walker III, 2018), and the manufacturing sector is the fifth most common employment sector for millennials (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). Demographic shifts may alter employee values and beliefs, which can impact the need for performance and manufacturing leaders to discover the relationship between millennial views and employee engagement. This phenomenological study of millennial workers intended to discover what might impact employee engagement. This article describes five main themes that can have an impact on millennial engagement: acceptance, community, education, collaborative environment, and leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":47803,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Development Quarterly","volume":"33 2","pages":"137-156"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hrdq.21453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47578011","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}