{"title":"Opportunism in headhunter-client relations: An agency theory perspective","authors":"Vesa Peltokorpi","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12513","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12513","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recruitment is one of the most important human resource functions for organizational success and survival. While organizations increasingly use headhunters to recruit employees, little research has focused on client-headhunter relations. This paper draws on agency theory and interviews with 130 contingency-based headhunters and corporate clients to examine clients' opportunistic behaviors and how headhunters sought to mitigate these opportunistic behaviors. Our analysis shows that clients used several headhunters in search assignments, negotiated and refused to pay placement fees, contacted candidates directly, changed search criteria and terminated search assignments, and used headhunters to poach employees from their competitors. Our analysis also shows that headhunters used various social interaction and contract-based approaches to mitigate these behaviors, which affected recruitment-related outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first agency theory-based study on clients' opportunist behaviors, bringing principals into agency theory-based research, and showing that clients' opportunism affects recruitment-related outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"122-137"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48003502","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":"Algorithmic inclusion: Shaping the predictive algorithms of artificial intelligence in hiring","authors":"Elisabeth K. Kelan","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12511","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12511","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite frequent claims that increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in hiring will reduce the human bias that has long plagued recruitment and selection, AI may equally replicate and amplify such bias and embed it in technology. This article explores exclusion and inclusion in AI-supported hiring, focusing on three interrelated areas: data, design and decisions. It is suggested that in terms of data, organisational fit, categorisations and intersectionality require consideration in relation to exclusion. As various stakeholders collaborate to create AI, it is essential to explore which groups are dominant and how subjective assessments are encoded in technology. Although AI-supported hiring should enhance recruitment decisions, evidence is lacking on how humans and machines interact in decision-making, and how algorithms can be audited and regulated effectively for inclusion. This article recommends areas for interrogation through further research, and contributes to understanding how algorithmic inclusion can be achieved in AI-supported hiring.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 3","pages":"694-707"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12511","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47678634","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}
Yiwei Yuan, Shuang Ren, Guiyao Tang, Haochen Ji, Fang Lee Cooke, Zhining Wang
{"title":"How green human resource management affects employee voluntary workplace green behaviour: An integrated model","authors":"Yiwei Yuan, Shuang Ren, Guiyao Tang, Haochen Ji, Fang Lee Cooke, Zhining Wang","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12510","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12510","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Green human resource management (GHRM), a set of HRM practices targeted at environmental goals, has been proposed as the key to achieving organisational sustainable development. However, the mechanisms through which GHRM influences employee green behaviour are not yet well understood. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study presents an integrated model revealing the mixed effects of GHRM on employees' voluntary workplace green behaviour (VWGB). Path analysis based on two studies undertaken in China largely supported our hypotheses. Specifically, GHRM was found to positively influence employees' VWGB through environmental commitment, while simultaneously decreasing their VWGB through emotional exhaustion. Meanwhile, supervisory support for environmental behaviour mitigated the impact of GHRM on emotional exhaustion as well as the relationship between GHRM and employee VWGB via emotional exhaustion. This study contributes to the GHRM literature in particular and organisational environmental management literature in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"91-121"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43359678","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":"Changing public attitudes toward the employment of formerly incarcerated people: The role of “human resources social advocacy”","authors":"Prue Burns, Marco De Sisto, Andrew R. Timming","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12505","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12505","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This registered report aims to evaluate the extent to which the human resources function can change public attitudes toward a controversial social issue. Focusing on the employment of formerly incarcerated people, we explore the novel concept of “human resources social advocacy” (HRSA), an interventionist approach through which HR might pro-actively change and/or shape people's minds on social issues via the communication and conveyance of ideas related to HR matters of public interest. We seek to test the effectiveness of two HRSA interventions in reducing public stigma toward the employment of formerly incarcerated people. One makes a moral case (“Changing Hearts”) and the other makes an instrument case (“Changing Minds”) for including formerly incarcerated people in the labor market. We also explore which of the two interventions is more effective at achieving normative change. This research will have important implications for the “societal effects” of human resource management.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"33 3","pages":"763-781"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45866785","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":"Who benefits from (Human Resource Management) professionalization? The moderating role of gender on professionalization effects in organisations","authors":"Isabella Scheibmayr, Astrid Reichel","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12508","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12508","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Professionalization aims at closure, that is, having the monopoly protection of expertise for an occupation on the labour market and in organizations. Role congruity theory suggests that the translation of professionalization into organizational closure and reaching board membership is likely to be moderated by gender at the individual and the occupational level. We test this proposition focusing on Human Resource Management (HRM), an occupation with a long history of professionalization attempts. Using a sample of 3276 organizations embedded in 34 countries with varying professionalization levels between countries, results show that professionalization of HRM at the country level is positively related to closure in organizations. The positive relationship is weaker for female HR directors and high proportions of women in the HRM occupation in a country. Organizational closure, in contrast, is negatively related to board representation but increases the likelihood of board membership in countries with high proportions of women in the HRM occupation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 3","pages":"668-693"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12508","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47882267","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":"Employee-perceived ‘motivation-enhancing HRM practices’ and career ambition: Social subjective norms explain workplace deviant behavior","authors":"Koustab Ghosh","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12503","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO) based human resource management (HRM) practices connote positive organizational outcomes, in general. This study has identified the deviant outcome of motivation-enhancing HRM practices by delineating how it can lead to an undesirable workplace behavior like unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPOB) through employees' career ambition. Further, such effects are amplified in the presence of UPOB descriptive and injunctive norms. The hypotheses were tested by using two multi-wave time-lagged studies for sales executives working in organizations representing two different industries. Career ambition partially mediated the relationship between motivation-enhancing HRM practices and UPOB. The conditional indirect effect of motivation-enhancing HRM practices on UPOB through employees' career ambition was stronger when they perceive high level of descriptive and injunctive norms in the workplace. While the relationship between career ambition and UPOB was strengthened for high descriptive and injunctive norms, it was weakened for low injunctive norms but not for low descriptive norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"33 4","pages":"1074-1096"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48594725","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":"Getting to what works: How frontline HRM relationality facilitates high-performance work practice implementation","authors":"Nick Krachler","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12502","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12502","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The lack of an efficient support system for people with multiple, long-term health conditions has increased costs, worsened health outcomes, and prompted policymakers to implement a boundary-spanning role within healthcare settings. While scholars have demonstrated the benefits of coordination roles and other such high-performance work practices (HPWPs) in this sector, the actual implementation of these practices is less clear. Based on a comparative case study approach, 153 interviews, and other qualitative data, this article explores frontline managers' HR philosophies and practices (‘frontline HRM relationality’) to explain possible variation in efforts to implement the boundary-spanning role of care coordinators (CCs). Despite strong policy support for the role, coordination has improved unevenly because of varying degrees of HRM relationality: findings show that higher frontline HRM relationality was associated with lower inter-occupational professionalization differences and higher boundary-spanning coordination. The article contributes to a nascent literature on HPWP implementation by theorizing frontline HRM relationality as a continuum that moderates professionalization-related coordination problems and highlights the importance of frontline HRM relationality for implementing HPWPs in professionalized settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"33 4","pages":"1053-1073"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48272874","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":"Worker silence in a turbulent neoliberal context: The case of mass privatisation of sugar factories in Turkey","authors":"Cihat Erbil, Mustafa Özbilgin","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12506","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12506","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Silence in the context of work has different meanings across different settings. Turbulence induced by the privatisation of previously state-owned enterprises presents a curious setting to explore worker silence. Turning to worker silence in the process of mass privatisation of sugar factories in Turkey, we examine why workers remained silent while resenting privatisation. We reflect on the experiences and perceptions of workers in the privatisation of sugar factories in an unregulated neoliberal country, where macro-national and meso-institutional mechanisms enforce worker silence Drawing on 48 interviews with workers from sugar factories, we demonstrate that worker silence deepened in the process of privatisation. The study provides evidence that an unregulated form of neoliberalism worsens worker silence through three distinct mechanisms: dismissal of democratic demands, marketisation of everything and decline of solidarity. We extend these mechanisms with 13 different corresponding forms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 3","pages":"647-667"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12506","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44575693","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}
Jane Frances Maley, Rebecca Mitchell, Brendan Boyle, Karen McNeil, Raymond Trau
{"title":"Two sides of the same coin: Appraising job-related attributes as resilience enhancing or undermining","authors":"Jane Frances Maley, Rebecca Mitchell, Brendan Boyle, Karen McNeil, Raymond Trau","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12507","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Increasing stress levels in the workplace is an economic and social issue for many industries, and coal mining is no exception. However, more recently mining coal has become an intense moral and ethical issue subjecting workers to psychosocial related stress</i>. Previous research has demonstrated that resilience can help manage individual stress to improve health outcomes and workplace productivity. <i>This study examines data collected from 61 interviews with various workers in the coal industry in Australia throughout immense and stressful uncertainty. Drawing on the Job-Demands-Resource and the Transaction of Stress and Coping theories, we find that crucial elements of human resource management processes, supervision and the employee work unit may be modelled as either demands or resources. More significantly, we find that the individual's subjective appraisal of job-related demands and resources plays a significant role in enhancing or undermining their resilience</i>. For theory, this study extends the <i>Job-Demands-Resource</i> model by <i>challenging the prevailing assumption that job-related attributes act as demands or resources in terms of their relationship with resilience</i>; for human resource management practice, the findings help focus on how particular strategies can best support and promote employee resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"74-90"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42344452","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":"How can people benefit, and who benefits most, from using socialisation-oriented social media at work? An affordance perspective","authors":"Bin Wang, Yukun Liu, Jing Qian, Sharon K. Parker","doi":"10.1111/1748-8583.12504","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1748-8583.12504","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past research has predominantly regarded (private) socialisation-oriented social media (SoSM) use at work as a counterproductive behaviour and has thus focussed more on its dark side. However, given the prevalence of social media in today's work life and the various affordances this technology can have, social media might have important bright sides. In this research, drawing on the affordance perspective, we propose that the day-to-day use of SoSM at work is positively associated with perceptions of social connectedness, which is further positively associated with life satisfaction and task performance. We examined our hypotheses using an experience sampling study of 134 full-time employees in China across 10 consecutive workdays. The results of multilevel modelling showed that, as expected, daily SoSM use at work related positively with employees' perceptions of social connectedness, which in turn predicted their daily life satisfaction and daily task performance. We also found that the relationship between daily SoSM use at work and perceived social connectedness was stronger for employees with higher, rather than lower, perceived workloads. We suggest this moderating effect occurs because social media is an efficient medium, providing greater affordances, through which busy workers can meet their belongingness needs. Overall, our study sheds light on the previously less-studied positive effects of social media use at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47916,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Journal","volume":"33 4","pages":"1035-1052"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42099611","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}