{"title":"When is more (not) better? On the relationships between the number of information ties and newcomer assimilation and learning","authors":"Hao-Yun Zou, Hai-Jiang Wang, Zitong Sheng, Wenxing Liu, Feng Jiang","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12545","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12545","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social capital plays a critical role in newcomer adjustment. However, research is lacking regarding the effective mobilization of social capital, in terms of how different information network characteristics jointly influence newcomer adjustment. Drawing on the literature on social networks and newcomer adjustment, we distinguish two crucial processes of newcomer adjustment, namely assimilation and learning, and propose that the extent to which newcomers' number of information ties influences the assimilation and learning processes depends on the frequency of social interactions (i.e., tie strength) and the status of network contacts (i.e., network status). To test our hypotheses, four waves of data were collected from a sample of 178 organizational newcomers. The results suggest that when network status is low, mobilizing a large information network reduces newcomers' organizational identification (an assimilation indicator), which in turn reduces their job satisfaction. Conversely, mobilizing a large information network with weak ties enhances newcomers' role clarity (a learning indicator) and in turn boosts their task performance. Overall, this study highlights the importance of considering tie strength and network status together with the number of information ties in efforts to facilitate newcomer adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"1080-1111"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When does CSR-facilitation human resource management motivate employee job engagement? The contextual effect of job insecurity","authors":"Kamran Iqbal, Jie Shen, Xin Deng","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12544","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12544","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing upon social identification theory and stakeholder theory, the current study examines the contextual effect of job insecurity on the indirect relationship between general corporate social responsibility facilitation-human resource management (HRM) and employee job engagement through the mediation of organizational pride. Our analysis of a two-wave dataset with a sample of 255 full-time employees in the banking sector reveals that job insecurity negatively moderates the impact of general CSR-facilitation HRM on organizational pride, which in turn is positively related to employee job engagement. This study advances the socially responsible HRM literature by providing insights into the underlying mechanisms and the contextual conditions under which general CSR-facilitation HRM influences employee workplace outcomes in the presence of conflicting interests among stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"1063-1079"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140473883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are layoffs an industry norm? Exploring how industry-level job decline or growth impacts firm-level layoff implementation","authors":"Nita Chhinzer","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12543","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12543","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Corporate layoffs are a globally prolific organisational activity, but little is known about how industry-level employment loss or gain impacts firm-level layoff implementation. Grounded in institutional theory, this study posits that firms in industries experiencing employment decline align with a cost-containment approach, while firms in industries experiencing employment growth focus on social exchange theory when executing employee layoffs. Analysis of 573 mass layoffs from March 2013 to May 2019 compared downsizing scope (layoff severity and frequency), explanations, alternatives, advance notice, and firm characteristics (unionisation and firm size) in employment gain versus loss industries. The findings indicate that meaningful differences exist. Firms operating in employment loss industries implement layoffs focused on cost-containment, including less severe layoffs, less extensive but more demand-decline focused explanations, and use more cost-reduction layoff alternatives, when compared to layoffs in employment gaining industries. Firms operating in industries experiencing growth execute layoffs in a manner that maintains the social exchange expectations between employee-employer. In addition, firms in declining industries are more likely to be unionised and larger than firms in growing industries. This research helps reconcile divergent layoff perspectives by considering how variations in external factors impact corporate layoffs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"1042-1062"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138949756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farveh Farivar, Mary Anthony, Julia Richardson, Rajiv Amarnani
{"title":"More to life than promotion: Self-initiated and self-resigned career plateaus","authors":"Farveh Farivar, Mary Anthony, Julia Richardson, Rajiv Amarnani","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12542","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12542","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Being on a career plateau is widely regarded as an undesirable career experience characterised by a lack of individual proactivity, ability, or opportunity for promotion. In this paper, we present an alternative view arguing that some employees may choose to plateau their careers and deliberately forego opportunities for hierarchical progression. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 75 law enforcement officers in the US and Australia, we explore why they declined a promotion opportunity or elected not to apply for promotion. Drawing on social cognitive career theory, we develop a provisional taxonomy characterised by individual proactivity: self-initiated and self-resigned career plateaus. Specifically, we report how the decision to remain on either of these career plateaus is informed by either the low valence accorded to a promoted position or, paradoxically, the reduced self-efficacy in navigating what is viewed as a flawed promotion system.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"1022-1041"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12542","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maike Andresen, Eleni Apospori, Hugh Gunz, Richard Cotton, Douglas T. Hall, Yan Shen, Janine Bosak, Michael Dickmann, Emma Parry
{"title":"Individuals' career perceptions in different institutionalized contexts: A comparative study of career actors in liberal, coordinated, hierarchical and mediterranean market economies","authors":"Maike Andresen, Eleni Apospori, Hugh Gunz, Richard Cotton, Douglas T. Hall, Yan Shen, Janine Bosak, Michael Dickmann, Emma Parry","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12541","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12541","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leveraging Weiner's attribution theory of intrapersonal motivation at the micro level and varieties of capitalism theory at the macro level, we conduct a multi-country and cross-level study examining whether individuals' career goals (i.e., perceived importance of learning and development), behaviors (i.e., proactive career behaviors), and outcomes (i.e., perceived employability) as well as the relationships between these variables, differ between different market economies. We challenge extant literature that focuses on the agentic role of individuals and understates the role of context (i.e., market economy influence) in an individual's career development. Using multilevel structural equation modeling, we draw on a survey of 15,201 individuals between 2014 and 2016 from 22 countries representing four different varieties of capitalism. The results showed that workers in hierarchical (HME) and Mediterranean (MME) market economies systematically differed from individuals in coordinated (CME) and liberal (LME) market economies in proactive career behaviors and perceived employability. Moreover, while the positive relationship between perceived importance of learning and development and proactive career behaviors was stronger in CMEs and LMEs compared to HMEs and MMEs, the positive association between proactive career behaviors and perceived employability was weaker. Our study bridges the micro-macro gap in career studies, adding new insights into the ongoing conversation of contextual influence in individuals' career development.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"991-1021"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138579271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Guerci, Tony Huzzard, Giovanni Radaelli, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
{"title":"Editorial: Scholar-stakeholder collaboration for rigorous and relevant HRM research—Possible contributions and key requirements of collaborative studies in HRM","authors":"Marco Guerci, Tony Huzzard, Giovanni Radaelli, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12540","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12540","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human Resource Management research is striving to develop rigorous and actionable knowledge for today’s social and environmental global challenges. For years, academic-stakeholder collaborative knowledge creation processes have been considered as potentially rewarding ways to achieve this objective. However, applications of collaborative HRM research are still relatively sparse, as HR scholars tend to engage with more traditional processes of knowledge creation. The aim of this editorial is to foster more widespread conduct of collaborative HRM research in the future. Drawing on Habermas, whose ideas on human knowledge are considered to be at the core of the epistemology of collaborative management research, we first highlight three avenues for collaborative HRM research that addresses our technical, practical and emancipatory knowledge-constitutive interests. For each of them, we highlight key theoretical assumptions and risks. Thereafter, we describe two key requirements for rigour and relevance in the context of any collaborative HRM study. Finally, we present the papers included in this special section and discuss their implications for HRM research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"975-990"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12540","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of contextual voice efficacy on employee voice and silence","authors":"Xu Huang, Adrian Wilkinson, Michael Barry","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12537","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12537","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given recent studies have begun to question the siloed nature of employee voice research this paper attempts to theorise the boundaries between Organisational Behavior (OB), Human Resource Management (HRM) and Industrial and Employment Relations (I/ER) voice. Researchers examine specific organisational contexts that may influence employees' voice behavior, with OB researchers paying particular attention to the micro contextual influences of leadership behavior and psychological safety climate on individual voice behavior; HR researchers emphasizing the meso role of HR practices that may facilitate employee voice; and I/ER researchers focusing more on how macro institutional supports such as unions and collective bargaining can protect employees and facilitate voice. The paper proposes a model of “contextual voice efficacy” as a bridge between these disparate literatures, and develops propositions as to how OB, HR and I/ER voice mechanisms can combine together in a single model.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"960-974"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12537","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hadyn Bennett, Martin McCracken, Paula O’Kane, Travor Brown
{"title":"The elusiveness of strategic HR partnering: Using paradox theory to understand tensions surrounding the HR business partnering role","authors":"Hadyn Bennett, Martin McCracken, Paula O’Kane, Travor Brown","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12538","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12538","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human resource business partnering is an established mechanism for the advancement of strategic HR. While much research has reported on relationships between partners (HRBPs) and line managers, relationships between partners and other aspects of the HR function are less well understood, as is the interplay between HRBP-LMP and HRBP-HR relationships. Through the use of paradox theory and case study methodology centred on a large public sector health care authority, we found these two sets of relationships to be operating paradoxically within an operational frame of reference, thereby constraining the establishment of strategic partnering.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"942-959"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12538","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling stuck and feeling bad: Career plateaus, negative emotions, and counterproductive work behaviors","authors":"Kara Ng, Wei-Ning Yang","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12539","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12539","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Career plateauing has been described as a subjective state that is emotionally unpleasant and associated with unethical work behaviors, yet there is little theoretical explanation or robust evidence to support such claims. This study contributes a theoretical framework for the relationships between career plateauing, emotions, and counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). Building on the stressor-emotion model of CWB, we propose that employees who perceive themselves as experiencing plateau are likely to commit CWB when they experience negative emotions. We also predict that the strength of this process depends on individuals' emotion regulation ability. Through regression analysis of data from 193 UK-based employees across three time points, our study finds that both hierarchical and job content plateauing are associated with negative emotions and indirectly related to CWB via negative emotions; neither plateau type is directly related to CWB. Additionally, lower emotion regulation ability strengthens the relationship between job content plateauing and negative emotions, leading to more CWB. This study offers a novel theoretical explanation of how plateauing affects employees' emotions and deviant behaviors. It also provides important practical guidance for managers by showing that plateaued employees are not inherently problematic to the organization. By proactively understanding and managing plateaued individuals' feelings, managers can more likely prevent negative emotions from triggering deviant behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"921-941"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12539","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135682002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotions careers: The interplay between careers and emotions in professional organisations","authors":"Stefanie Gustafsson, Dan Kärreman","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12536","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12536","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite recognising the importance of emotions for careers, researchers rarely explore how career-related practices invoke emotions and the implications for professionals’ career aspirations and behaviours. Drawing on 50 interviews with lawyers on the partner track and human resource (HR) professionals, we develop the concept of an <i>emotions career</i>. The emotions career consists of four stages, each characterised by different primary emotions and socio-emotional dynamics. We find that career practices and social interactions elicit emotions that regulate professionals’ career aspirations and trajectories. Thus, professionals become emotionally invested in their careers, which in turn contributes to the maintenance of existing career systems. To better support professionals, we suggest that HR practitioners develop greater awareness of the emotional dynamics associated with careers and engage in career conversations, while organisational leaders should, collectively, consider ways to challenge negative perceptions of alternative career paths, generating more diverse thinking about careers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 4","pages":"904-920"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135819998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}