Luke Booker, Paula K. Mowbray, Keith Townsend, Carys Chan
{"title":"Technology and Its Influence on Teleworker Well-Being: A Systematic Review","authors":"Luke Booker, Paula K. Mowbray, Keith Townsend, Carys Chan","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The dramatic increase in teleworking, or remote work facilitated by technology, has spurred debate regarding potential effects upon individual well-being. Whilst teleworking has been shown to provide many benefits for individuals, our review focuses upon its challenges. Research suggests that technological risk factors shape the well-being of teleworkers. This review synthesises knowledge regarding this problem and charts a course for future research. We systematically gather 105 studies and link technological challenges to five dimensions of well-being: cognitive, social, professional, affective and psychosomatic. We identify three key areas through which technology reduces well-being: (1) <i>connectivity</i>; (2) <i>communication</i> and (3) <i>capabilities</i>. We examine contemporary risk factors such as digital surveillance, problematic availability expectations, mediated communication difficulties and access or dependability of technological resources. Our discussion elucidates pressing human resources concerns and offers practical insights. Furthermore, we consider future avenues for scholarly inquiry, for instance, the gap between quantitative and qualitative efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144179384","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":"Control or Empowerment: Toward a Research Agenda on the Duality of Algorithmic Management","authors":"Jianwu Jiang, Jieyu Hu, Shuling Li","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Online labor platforms employ intelligent algorithmic technologies for work processes and rules, enabling algorithmic management of gig workers. Despite a growing body of research on algorithmic management, the field lacks tools to capture worker experiences, hindering empirical investigations into its subsequent impact mechanisms. This study introduces the Perceived Algorithmic Management Questionnaire, developed and validated through deep interviews and grounded theoretical analysis, to confirm the concept of algorithmic management duality. Drawing on the job demands–resources theory, we argue that the four dimensions of algorithm management both constrain and enable worker work engagement, resulting from workers' efforts to maintain autonomy and cope with deprivation caused by algorithm management. Overall, these findings shed light on the dual nature of algorithmic management, setting the stage for further exploration of its effects on worker behavior.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171611","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":"HR Unleashed!!: Developing the Differences That Make a DifferenceBy Steve Brown: Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia, United States, 2023. 228 pp. $27.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 1586446274","authors":"Apriana Sahu","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171295","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":"Patient-Perpetrated Violence Against Healthcare Workers in the Asia-Pacific Region: Scoping Review and Research Agenda","authors":"Apoorva Goel, Lata Dyaram, Kantha Dayaram","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Violence against healthcare workers is a pervasive global issue. While previous literature has primarily focussed on fellow employees as perpetrators, little is known regarding violence inflicted by patients and their support such as family and visitors. Adopting a regional lens, this study examines the risk factors of violence against healthcare workers inflicted by patients and their support, owing to higher levels of violence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. We conducted a scoping literature review of 98 APAC-based empirical studies in peer-reviewed academic journals in English. The catalysts for violence were classified according to overarching themes of individual attributes of healthcare professionals, care-centre provisions and infrastructure, accountability of administration and management, as well as patients and their family's backgrounds. Review purpose and rationale were mapped to Arksey and O'Malley's scoping review protocol. These results were further corroborated by some of the collaborative exercises carried out with medical and para-medical professionals. The findings and insights establish a regional risk assessment and evaluation framework with policy ramifications concerning workers' occupational health and safety. We identify and present several socio-economic, political, topographical, and methodological investigation avenues.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140415","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}
Terrance W. Fitzsimmons, Katherine R. O'brien, Margaret E. Crane, Brian W. Head, Victor J. Callan
{"title":"The Persistence of Global Workplace Gender Inequality: What Does a Wicked Problems Framework Bring to HRM Research and Practice?","authors":"Terrance W. Fitzsimmons, Katherine R. O'brien, Margaret E. Crane, Brian W. Head, Victor J. Callan","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ongoing failure to resolve gender equality in workplaces emphasises the urgent need to consider new paradigms for understanding and resolving this worldwide issue. In this provocation paper, we argue that problematising workplace gender inequality using the paradigm of a wicked problem has significant implications for designing future HRM research and practice. After mapping the many factors and examples of outcomes linked to continued gender inequality, we critique the state of current research by applying the three dimensions of wicked problems thinking: complexity, divergence and uncertainty. Using numerous examples of HRM issues, we identify six implications for future HRM research. Implications include that gender inequality be investigated as many related problems; the trade-offs between complexity and over-simplification in research designs; variations in the usefulness of research findings to impacted stakeholders and more efforts towards engaged scholarship with its features of bottom-up research and greater interdisciplinary collaboration. Turning to HRM practices, we identify how wicked problems thinking highlights how HRM practitioners also need to fully embrace the complexity of gender inequality, both causes and solutions. This demands the use of research methods that are collaborative and stakeholder-focused, accepting the utility of partial solutions; and recognising the unintended positive and negative consequences that often occur from HRM interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143950188","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":"Research Handbook of Academic Mental HealthBy M. S. Edwards, A. J. Martin, N. M. Ashkanasy, and L. E. Cox (eds.), Cheltenham Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 540 pp. ISBN: 978-1-80392-507-3 (cased), 978-1-80392-508-0 (eBook)","authors":"Peter Holland","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143930365","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}
Dan Zhao, Ningyu Tang, Vivien K. G. Lim, Shenyang Hai
{"title":"AMO-Enhancing HRMPs and Employee Well-Being Dimensions: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis","authors":"Dan Zhao, Ningyu Tang, Vivien K. G. Lim, Shenyang Hai","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Human resource management practices (HRMPs) have inconsistent impacts on employee well-being. However, prior research has not reached compelling conclusions due to variations in research designs (e.g., samples from various countries, different operationalizations of well-being and HRMPs). To address this research gap, we conducted a three-level meta-analysis to explore the relationships between HRMPs and employee well-being based on conservation of resources theory and the ability–motivation–opportunity model. HRMPs were categorized into AMO-enhancing sub-bundles, and employee well-being was classified into psychological, health, and social well-being. Using data from 69 studies (<i>N</i> = 343,473), our findings revealed that ability-enhancing HRMPs have the strongest association with health well-being, motivation-enhancing HRMPs with psychological well-being, and opportunity-enhancing HRMPs with social well-being. These HRMPs–employee well-being relationships vary by national culture, such as individualism and performance orientation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836248","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}
Pengxin Xie, Hongyu Chen, Zhengquan Cheng, Wei Fan, Shumin Ge
{"title":"How Do Courts Respond to the Platform Regulation Policy in Protecting Gig Workers? Evidence From Court Decisions in China","authors":"Pengxin Xie, Hongyu Chen, Zhengquan Cheng, Wei Fan, Shumin Ge","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Governments in many countries struggle to balance the development of the platform economy and the protection of gig workers. In China, the State Council promulgated the Guiding Opinion in August 2019, marking a shift from promoting platform development to protecting gig workers' rights. This study analyses 562 work-related injury disputes involving food delivery platforms to evaluate how courts have responded to the platform regulation policy. The results show that the Guiding Opinion has prompted courts to assign greater liability to platforms in cases involving crowd-sourced riders. However, in cases involving special delivery riders, the probability and proportion of claims have decreased since the promulgation of the policy. These findings contribute to the literature on gig workers by highlighting the impact of government policy on court rulings regarding platform employment disputes. Adopting active protection policies and rational judicial behaviour can effectively protect gig workers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818445","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}
Rebecca Loudoun, Hetal Doshi, Keith Townsend, Kenneth Cafferkey, Adam Robertson
{"title":"The Critical Role of Psychological Risk and Safety in Eliciting Worker Well-Being","authors":"Rebecca Loudoun, Hetal Doshi, Keith Townsend, Kenneth Cafferkey, Adam Robertson","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychosocial factors are well-known determinants of workers' health and well-being, and considerable research exists on how organisations can manage stress at work. Most existing research draws on theories from psychological sciences and applies them using a narrow approach, and consequently, recommendations usually involve organisations minimising demands on employees and maximising organisational resources. Despite these advances, research continues to find differences between the well-being of workers operating under similar working conditions, suggesting a broader understanding of the mechanism through which psychosocial hazards impact well-being is needed. Based on survey data from over 800 employees in Malaysia, we find that deterioration in worker well-being resulting from psychosocial hazards at work is moderated by how safe employees feel to speak up about interpersonal problems at work (known as psychological safety). We conclude that a broader HR approach that looks beyond individual factors in work demands and resources is needed to manage stress at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645960","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}
Nian Pengxiang, Pei Jialiang, Liu Shanshi, Liu Min, Xiong Li
{"title":"Electronic Performance Monitoring and Employee Creativity in the Digital Era: Cultural Variations in Power Distance","authors":"Nian Pengxiang, Pei Jialiang, Liu Shanshi, Liu Min, Xiong Li","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With the emergence of digital technologies, electronic performance monitoring (EPM) is becoming more prevalent in the Asian workplace. However, the consensus on EPM and Asian culture has not been updated with technological advancements. This study investigates the impact of the dualistic functions of EPM on employee creativity, considering power distance within the framework of the job demands-resources model. Based on a sample of 276 employee-colleague dyads from a Chinese company, we found that for employees with high (vs. low) power distance orientation, the positive impact of developmental EPM on employee creativity through harmonious passion is attenuated, as the job resources provided by developmental EPM, which require autonomy from employees, are perceived as psychological burdens. Conversely, the negative impact of deterrent EPM on employee creativity through obsessive passion is amplified, as the job demands imposed by deterrent EPM are seen as duties to be adhered to. This study sheds light on the crucial role that cultural orientation plays in the effectiveness of EPM and highlights the necessity for managers to consider cultural factors when implementing EPM in the digital era.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645961","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}