{"title":"The feedforward interview: A theoretical account","authors":"Eyal Rechter , Avraham N. Kluger , Dina Nir","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the ongoing effort to maximize employee performance, the managerial tools of performance management, performance appraisal, and feedback often fail to produce desirable organizational outcomes. As a remedy, some scholars suggest the Feedforward Interview (FFI), which helps employees identify strengths, develop new behaviors, and improve performance. To promote understanding of the FFI, we detail the theoretical mechanisms activated by each of its five stages and offer new ways to use it. The FFI potentially creates the proximal outcomes of positive emotions, bonding, psychological safety, insights, interviewer knowledge, and satisfaction of intrinsic needs. These outcomes motivate change and improve work performance, collaboration between interviewer and interviewee, and well-being. We discuss differences between feedback and the FFI, boundary conditions, and applications—from performance appraisal and personnel selection to employee, team, leadership, and organizational development—thereby providing managers and practitioners with deeper knowledge and a broader range of potential uses for the FFI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 2","pages":"Article 101061"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745771","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}
Aldrich Dominic Guarin , Keith Townsend , Adrian Wilkinson , Martin Edwards
{"title":"Time to voice? A review and agenda for longitudinal employee voice research","authors":"Aldrich Dominic Guarin , Keith Townsend , Adrian Wilkinson , Martin Edwards","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents a systematic literature review of 256 longitudinal studies found from two major databases to examine employee voice, involvement, participation, and silence within organisations. We first explore the development of employee voice as an academic subject of study and then explain how similar constructs, like involvement, participation, and silence have been incorporated to our review. We investigate how the compiled longitudinal articles examine, analyse, and explain how voice is elucidated through a study over time. We find that most longitudinal studies do not explicitly place importance on the notion of time when examining voice. We then compile well-cited models and voice frameworks to explain voice longitudinally. We focus on the importance of time and discuss how exploring voice through a temporal lens will be a step forward in understanding the dynamics within an organisation. In reviewing the features of existing longitudinal research in the field of voice and applying some key components of existing models (Marchington et al., 1992; Townsend et al., 2020), we develop and apply a broader voice framework that can incorporate different organisational elements, including process and outcomes over time. We also propose a future research agenda for longitudinal studies in employee voice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101059"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745599","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":"The different faces of e‑leadership: Six perspectives on leading in the era of digital technologies","authors":"Robin Bauwens , Laura Cortellazzo","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although leadership is critical for overcoming the challenges of digital technologies (DTs), their mutual relationships remain poorly understood. By reviewing 257 peer-reviewed articles, this study builds on adaptive structuration theory (AST) and institutional logics to identify six different relationships among leadership, DTs, and institutional properties: 1) the influence of DTs on leadership displays; 2) the influence of leadership on DTs' design and appropriation; 3) the influence of institutional properties on leadership displays; 4) the impact of institutional properties on DT-related choices; 5) the role of leadership in transforming organizations and their institutional properties; and 6) the influence of DTs on institutional properties. This study demonstrates that AST and institutional logics can foster a comprehensive understanding of the broad and sometimes contradictory findings of research on leadership and DTs. We propose a conceptual model to guide future studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101058"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745598","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":"The role of country-level human capital in the high-performance work systems and organizational performance association: A meta-analysis","authors":"Xiaoxuan Zhai, Fang Huang, Xiaowen Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101057","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity model in human resource management with the eclectic paradigm in international business research, we examine the role of country-level human capital development in the high-performance work systems (HPWS) and organizational performance (OP) association. We posit that there is a substitution relationship between country-level human capital development and organization-level HPWS in shaping OP. HPWS generates a stronger effect on OP in countries with a lower level of human capital development and thus a greater need for HPWS to boost performance. Training & development plays a key role in turning human capital available in a country into talent resources useful in an organization, thereby strengthening the HPWS-OP association. This role is stronger in countries with a lower level of human capital development. We conduct meta-analyses of 56,868 business entities from 20 countries/regions in 232 samples from 1994 to April 2024, and find evidence to support our arguments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101057"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745597","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":"Understanding how agile teams reach effectiveness: A systematic literature review to take stock and look forward","authors":"R. Steegh , K. Van De Voorde , J. Paauwe","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a global environment that continues to challenge organizations' responsiveness, agile teams have proliferated in diverse sectors of practice and streams of research. However, scholars also indicate that agile teams, their way of working, and how they achieve effectiveness seem to be an undertheorized phenomenon. To better account for and understand how agile teams reach effectiveness, we aim to compile, organize, and synthesize the agile team literature using the IMOI model as a theoretical anchoring point. We systematically reviewed 74 studies on agile teams and identified their key input, mediating, and outcome factors. This effort has, consequently, allowed us to identify crucial theoretical and methodological gaps in the understanding of how agile teams manage uncertainty and what is needed to close these gaps. Furthermore, we identified three themes relevant to all teams dealing with the management of uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101056"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745596","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}
Rebecca M. Chory , Evan H. Offstein , Ronald L. Dufresne , J. Stephen Childers Jr.
{"title":"How executive coaches actually coach: Leveraging a relational lens","authors":"Rebecca M. Chory , Evan H. Offstein , Ronald L. Dufresne , J. Stephen Childers Jr.","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the widespread acceptance of executive coaching as a relational phenomenon, how these relationships play out in practice tends to be overlooked and under-researched. In this conceptual paper, we argue that the “caring, yet professionally distant” clinical approach to executive coaching is unrealistic. Challenging this approach, we propose a relational communication perspective on coach-client friendship development, which we situate within the larger relational triad of coaches, leader-clients, and organizational sponsors/decision-makers/superiors. Adopting micro and macro perspectives, we detail the forces that spark and sustain these friendships, including coaches' relational communication, the sincerity and instrumentality of coaches' relationship motives, and coaching's occupational characteristics. We consider the web of multiple relationships within which executive coaching occurs. Along the way, we discuss challenges to the practice of executive coaching as it relates to personal workplace relationships, and we discuss the ethical implications of these relationships. We conclude with provocative questions to guide future research and practice in both executive coaching and personal workplace relationship arenas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101055"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745595","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}
Min Liu , Yuran Li , Zhibin Lin , Jiong Zhou , Shanshi Liu
{"title":"The cost of ‘cost reduction’: An integrative review of blended workgroups","authors":"Min Liu , Yuran Li , Zhibin Lin , Jiong Zhou , Shanshi Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Blended workgroups, comprising both standard and nonstandard employees, are increasingly used by organisations to reduce costs, however, evidence on their effectiveness has been mixed. This integrative review analyses 96 relevant empirical studies, and organises the findings along three themes: impacts at individual and organisational levels, theoretical perspectives explaining the mechanisms of workgroup dynamics, and contingency factors influencing benefits and costs. Our findings offer four key insights: the importance of composition, the need for a multi-perspective approach, the development of targeted management practices, and the significance of career lifecycle management, all of which have important managerial implications. We suggest five avenues for future research: integrating theoretical perspectives, addressing employee psychological well-being, considering contextual factors, examining temporal changes, and analysing the impact of gender dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101054"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745594","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 is hybrid work? Towards greater conceptual clarity of a common term and understanding its consequences","authors":"Jakob Lauring , Charlotte Jonasson","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of ‘hybrid work’, characterized by ongoing alternation between traditional and non-traditional work modes, has gained significant attention in recent research. Despite its growing relevance, a consistent and coherent conceptualization of hybrid work remains elusive. This article aims to address this gap by offering a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of hybrid work, contributing to conceptual clarity in its application. We draw on an extensive literature review to propose a definition of hybrid work that encompasses dynamic switches across three dimensions: modality (analog/face-to-face vs. digital/virtual), location (office/co-located vs. non-office/distributed), and temporality (constrained/synchronous vs. unconstrained/asynchronous). Building on existing literature and our dynamic, three-dimensional, and multilevel definition of hybrid work, we reinterpret key findings within the HRM domain, illustrating how our framework brings clarity to previously ambiguous aspects of hybrid work. This reinterpretation not only underscores the theoretical contributions of our definition but also identifies new research directions inspired by these insights.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101044"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745593","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":"Toward a theory of team resource mobilization: A systematic review and model of sustained agile team effectiveness","authors":"Tom L. Junker , Arnold B. Bakker , Daantje Derks","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The notion of resources is central to many theories in HRM and applied psychology. Prominent resource-based theories in HRM tend to focus on issues related to accessing resources at the firm-level (e.g., resource-based view of the firm) or the employee-level (e.g., job demands - resources theory). However, at the team-level, the critical issue is often a matter of resource mobilization rather than resource access. Previous research has discovered that a team's ability to use resources effectively is indicative of collective intelligence. Instead of explaining this ability with a latent collective intelligence factor, we argue that teams can develop this ability by using agile work practices (AWPs). Through a systematic review of the agile team literature, we describe how agile teams mobilize resources embedded in the internal and external environment to achieve sustained team effectiveness. Generalizing beyond the agile team context, we propose a model that introduces team-internal and team-external resource mobilization as unique predictors of sustained team effectiveness. We further propose that resource mobilization is strengthened by challenge demands (e.g., work complexity) and weakened by hindrance demands (e.g., role conflict). We hope our model of sustained team effectiveness inspires future research into how teams can perform effectively across multiple episodes, without this going at the cost of members' health and well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 101043"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745592","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}
Pierre-Marc Leblanc , Jean-François Harvey , Vincent Rousseau
{"title":"A meta-analysis of team reflexivity: Antecedents, outcomes, and boundary conditions","authors":"Pierre-Marc Leblanc , Jean-François Harvey , Vincent Rousseau","doi":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this meta-analysis, we assess the performance benefits of team reflexivity. Drawing on the teams-as-information-processors perspective, we provide evidence that team reflexivity facilitates team performance, yet we also find that these benefits depend on key team design contingencies, namely team size and team tenure. In addition, we examine how team leaders can make their team more reflexive. Our study shows that leaders who support team members' active participation in group discussion and decision-making set the stage for greater reflexivity and then greater performance by fostering the emergence of team psychological safety. We also provide a comprehensive review of the research on team reflexivity by examining the strength of relationships in its nomological network. Overall, this meta-analysis challenges certain assumptions about reflexivity and opens new avenues for research to further understand its role in the effectiveness of teams.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48145,"journal":{"name":"Human Resource Management Review","volume":"34 4","pages":"Article 101042"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053482224000329/pdfft?md5=79d043ad5f20e04e17b56ae3b0d53d42&pid=1-s2.0-S1053482224000329-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142095383","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}