{"title":"Workplace objectification: A review, synthesis, and research agenda","authors":"Bibi Zhang , Barbara Wisse , Robert G. Lord","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Objectification – treating human beings as instrumental tools deprived of agency and experience – is inherent in many organizational practices, as employers hope that it may further their interest in profit-making. However, workplace objectification undermines target employees' interests and well-being. This systematic review seeks to address this conflict by discussing relevant theories and empirical studies on workplace objectification. Based on an analysis of 78 studies, this review summarizes and integrates what is known about antecedents and consequences of workplace objectification from three different perspectives: Objectifying others, self-objectification, and experiencing objectification. This review shows that people objectify others to achieve performance and extrinsic goals or to reduce subjectivity uncertainty, while thwarting the objectified targets' fundamental control, belonging, and self-esteem needs. We provide a comprehensive framework that integrates the extant literature on workplace objectification and offer theoretical and methodological recommendations. We conclude by discussing how juxtaposing conflicting elements in workplace objectification can help create a more virtuous cycle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101104"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The story beyond the stats: Decoding the psychological impact of human resource analytics on employees","authors":"Geethika Raj , T.N. Krishnan","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human Resource Analytics (HRA) has emerged as a significant trend with high-performing organizations using analytics for evidence-based decision-making. Although prior research demonstrates that HRA adoption could entail job resources and challenges for employees – particularly HR specialists and line managers- the field lacks a robust theoretical framework for a focused and systematic investigation. To address this gap, we conducted a mixed-methods review of 39 articles selected based on rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria. Our study examines the psychological impact of HRA on employees, shedding light on the impact of the integration into daily work. Applying the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, we offer a balanced perspective of employees' psychological responses to HRA, extending prior work on technology adoption. This framework enables us to map out the direct, mediating, and moderating relationships between key variables, providing a clearer understanding of HRA's implications for employee well-being and performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101102"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144663263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting wage theft in organizations","authors":"Catherine E. Connelly","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Employees naturally expect to be paid for their work; moreover, they expect to be paid fully and on time. Unfortunately, this does not always happen; this phenomenon is known as “wage theft”. Despite wage theft being of paramount importance to employees who experience it, this topic has received scant attention in the human resources management (HRM) research literature. This paper therefore describes the prevalence of wage theft, or the illegal underpayment of employees, and offers several propositions regarding its antecedents, with specific attention to roles of both organizations and managers. This paper also identifies specific strategies that HR managers can use to detect and curtail wage theft and it ends with policy recommendations and suggestions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101103"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144653450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathy Sanderson , Irfan Butt , Rupa Banerjee , Ryan Hron
{"title":"Voices of belonging: Integrating immigrant perspectives in workplace inclusion theory","authors":"Kathy Sanderson , Irfan Butt , Rupa Banerjee , Ryan Hron","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fostering an inclusive work environment is vital for retaining diverse talent. However, there is a lack of evidence and agreement from scholars and human resources managers on which factors contribute to employees feeling genuinely embraced, integrated, and welcomed within the workplace. This is particularly the case for immigrant workers who often face significant barriers to employment inclusion. This paper presents a systematic review of qualitative articles examining the workplace inclusivity of immigrants from a lived experience perspective. The themes identified within the review are mapped on the Antecedents and Outcomes of Inclusion Model proposed by <span><span>Shore et al.'s (2011)</span></span>. This paper advances the theoretical framework that underpins research on workplace inclusion while also uncovering the strategies and adaptations made by newcomers to enhance their prospects of achieving successful inclusion—an aspect previously overlooked. These include <span><span>Proposition 1</span></span>: Impressions formed during the initial stages of immigrant affiliation shape their perception of the organization's diversity climate, which in turn enables inclusive leadership and practices; and <span><span>Proposition 2</span></span>: Immigrants actively and intentionally adjust their self-presentation to gain acceptance in the workplace, often prioritizing compliance with established norms over expressing their distinct identities. An extensive future research section is presented which reflects the recommendations from both the papers reviewed and the subsequent analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101100"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144557540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What sparks team learning? Refining the conceptual understanding of team learning and learning triggers","authors":"Katrien Vangrieken , Shannon L. Marlow","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Teams and their capacity to learn are considered key cornerstones of organizational success. Research on team learning has substantially grown in recent years, with studies identifying a myriad of positive outcomes and key antecedents. Despite these advances, empirical research remains fragmented due to persistent conceptual ambiguities. Team learning has been conceptualized in numerous ways, encompassing a wide variety of distinct learning behaviors, with limited integration. Moreover, although antecedents and boundary conditions have been extensively investigated, a unified understanding of how team learning is initiated remains unaddressed. This paper presents a systematic review analyzing 239 empirical studies on team learning to address these issues. We introduce a trigger-based process model examining how learning is initiated and unfolds over time, accounting for the vast diversity of learning conceptualizations, theoretical perspectives, and empirical findings in the field. Based on this model, we identify important opportunities for future research on team learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101101"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumina S. Albert , David G. Allen , Peter D. Harms
{"title":"Ethical approaches to leadership in organizational contexts: An attachment theory perspective","authors":"Lumina S. Albert , David G. Allen , Peter D. Harms","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ethical approaches to leadership in organizational contexts have been linked to a wide range of positive outcomes for both organizations and their followers. The primary thesis of this paper is that insights gleaned from attachment theory shed light on the evolutionary and developmental origins, emergence and occurrence of ethical approaches to leadership in organizational contexts. Based on an extensive literature review, we identify important conceptual advances that provide insights into how attachment-based relational models contribute to the emergence and development of antecedents and core-themes of ethical approaches to leadership. Furthermore, we outline theoretical connections, present our rationale for the suggested relationships, and develop meaningful propositions useful for future empirical investigations. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. This work allows us to consider how organizations and human resource management programs can proactively address and support the needs of the new “attachment -insecure” era of organizational workers in a way that positively affects organizational outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 4","pages":"Article 101099"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144306408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bibliometric-systematic literature review of workplace gossip research","authors":"Junaid Khalid , Qingxiong Derek Weng , Hafiz Muhammad Usman Khizar","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, scholars have shown immense interest in investigating the dynamics of workplace gossip. As a complex and rapidly growing phenomenon, workplace gossip has generated a wide range of findings. This rapid growth has led to confusion and fragmentation in the literature, highlighting the need for a comprehensive literature synthesis. To address this, we employed a bibliometric-systematic literature review (B-SLR) approach to integrate the diverse literature on workplace gossip. We systematically searched, selected, and critically reviewed a sample of 258 research articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Our bibliometric analysis provides a thorough overview of 258 articles, followed by a critical literature synthesis of 183 articles, that organized prior studies into two main themes: antecedents and outcomes of workplace gossip. These are further categorized into three sub-themes: gossip sender, gossip receiver, and gossip target. Additionally, we developed a conceptual framework to illustrate the interactions within the gossip triad and proposed a gossip typology based on organizational hierarchical levels, along with practical future research guidelines. This study brings clarity and coherence to the complex and rapidly expanding field of workplace gossip, establishing a robust knowledge base to guide future research and inform policy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 3","pages":"Article 101092"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chao Liu , Li Zhu , Yiwei Yuan , Xingwen Chen , Jun Liu
{"title":"A bibliometric review of abusive supervision","authors":"Chao Liu , Li Zhu , Yiwei Yuan , Xingwen Chen , Jun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We conduct a bibliometric analysis of abusive supervision as a valuable supplement to prior quantitative and qualitative reviews. Based on studies published between 2000 and 2023 in the Web of Science database, we identify major patterns in the evolution of the field, intellectual structure, and research trends through historiography, co-citation, and co-occurrence analyses. A dominant paradigm emerges, focusing on the antecedents, outcomes, and mechanisms of abusive supervision. Additionally, we highlight key seminal works shaping the abusive supervision domain and explore its connections to various leadership constructs. Building on these findings, we propose a framework and future research agenda that highlights the need for conceptual rethinking, exploration of extended topics, development of coping matrices, integrated investigation of abusive supervision outcomes, and consideration of a social network perspective. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the abusive supervision field, its evolution over time, and its future directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 3","pages":"Article 101091"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143777622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the (structural) gap: HR practitioners as brokers of the space between academics and employee informants","authors":"Hugh T.J. Bainbridge , Jessica R. Methot","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human resource (HR) practitioners are regularly contacted by academic researchers who seek access to interviewees and/or survey respondents within the HR practitioner’s organisation. However, despite interest in closing the research-practice gap, there has been limited consideration of the HR practitioner’s role in the conduct of organisational field research. To address this, we draw upon insights from the social networks literature on brokerage to propose that HR practitioners can function as <em>research brokers</em>—individuals behaving as intermediaries between internal and external organisational stakeholders to control or facilitate academic research activities. We integrate the literatures on network brokerage and boundary management strategies to develop a typology of HR practitioner brokering behaviours. We identify which conditions lend themselves to productive brokering that can facilitate the execution of research project partnerships. We outline challenges faced by HR practitioners in the research brokerage role and approaches for addressing these challenges. Finally, we identify opportunities for furthering the examination of research brokerage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 3","pages":"Article 101089"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143777621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-focusing talent management: Frontline and essential work as the contemporary challenge","authors":"Heike Schinnenburg, Nicole Böhmer","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Talent Management (TM) research has predominantly focused on graduated knowledge workers and high potentials who are identified and nurtured as future talent for key positions. In the global context, societal phenomena and megatrends challenge main paradigms of exclusive approaches in TM, especially which target groups are scarce and require special consideration of HRM practitioners. Taking a phenomenon-based approach, this paper discusses the relevance of demographic shifts, educational policies, migration, and the rapid development of AI, indicating different labor markets for the future. We explore Frontline and Essential Workers (FEWs) as a potential source of talent and organizational capabilities in diverse national contexts, exemplified in the German economy. Key implications for the future of TM are identified and a more future-orientated, inclusive framework suggested, inviting further development and scholarly discussions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 3","pages":"Article 101090"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}