{"title":"Perceived Organisational Support, Work-Life Balance, and Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction: A Moderated Mediation Study of Grandparent Status","authors":"Candice Harris, Jarrod Haar, Barbara Myers","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While older workers have received considerable attention from researchers, far less is known about the work experiences of grandparents. This study examines how perceived organisational support (POS) influences work-life balance (WLB) and work outcomes (employee engagement and job satisfaction) with grandparent status as a moderator. Using a moderated mediation model tested on 783 New Zealand employees (including 155 grandparents) with the PROCESS macro, we find support for all direct effects. Importantly, when POS is high, grandparents report significantly higher WLB than non-grandparents. Moderated mediation analyses further show that the indirect effect of POS on engagement and job satisfaction, via WLB, is strongest for grandparents. These findings position grandparents as a distinct and often under-recognised segment of the workforce, suggesting they may engage with social exchange relationships in unique ways. For HR practice, this recognition goes beyond demographic categorisation—it calls for a critical evaluation of policies related to flexibility, leave, and wellbeing through the lens of later-life caregiving responsibilities. By doing so, HR practitioners can better support the engagement and retention of this group, while researchers are encouraged to consider grandparent status as a meaningful variable in future HRM scholarship.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224275","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":"Green Human Resource Management: Synthesising Outcomes and Identifying Effective Practices","authors":"Yongxing Guo, Siqi Wang, Qiong Yang","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) is increasingly acknowledged as a crucial strategy for enhancing organisational environmental performance. Despite growing empirical evidence regarding the antecedents and outcomes of GHRM, limited efforts have been made to quantitatively synthesise the existing findings to advance the literature. Additionally, it is not clear which specific GHRM practices are more effective in predicting different favourable employee outcomes. To address the gaps, we conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 172 studies (<i>N</i> = 54,963) from 166 articles. Our results indicate that overall GHRM is positively related to various employee attitudinal and behavioural outcomes and organisational outcomes. Further analysis using MASEM (meta-analytic structural equation modelling) reveals that overall GHRM impacts both employee in-role and extra-role green behaviours through employee green values. Moreover, the result of relative weight analysis shows that specific GHRM practices, such as green performance management, and employee empowerment and involvement, are particularly effective at promoting employee in-role green behaviours. Green performance management and green reward and compensation are more important for fostering employee extra-role green behaviours.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145102035","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":"The Effect of Artificial Intelligence Usage on Employee Service Innovation Behavior: An Information Exchange Perspective","authors":"Xinyue Li, Xin Wei, Guangdi Tian, Min Cui, Yue He","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been increasingly adopted in service industries and are playing a crucial role in affecting service innovation. Drawing on the perspective of information exchange, our research investigates the impact of AI usage on employee service innovation behavior and the underlying mechanism. We conducted a qualitative study, an experimental study, and a field survey to test our hypothesized model. The findings indicate that AI usage at work reduces the information exchange between employees and customers, which, in turn, negatively affects employee service innovation behavior. However, job autonomy can mitigate the negative effects of AI usage on employee-customer information exchange and service innovation behavior. Our research contributes to the literature on AI usage and service innovation and provides practical insights for using AI effectively in work settings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038067","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":"Marching Toward Automation: Whether and How Labor Shapes Technological Processes in Chinese Factories","authors":"Siqi Luo","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The influence of technological changes on work has long been debated, but labor's impact on technology, especially in rapid-industrializing economies, deserves more research. This study explores labor's influence on automation in China, based on long-term investigations of eight automotive suppliers. Each of these factories, following the 2010 strikes, established enterprise unions that engage in regular collective bargaining, making them among the country's most active grassroots trade unions. As is typical in the industry, management in all these factories has been actively pursuing automation. However, their automation processes have diverged widely. By comparing these processes, this study identifies two key labor impacts on technology: the first arises from the productive characteristics of labor, and the second from workers' collective action. Both types influence the form and pace of technology adoption in China. The former, based on labor costs, skills, and other productive attributes, structurally constrains automation choices. Action-based union effects, which are prominent in some Western unions, remain limited and primarily defensive and may weaken further as the march of automation continues.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012644","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":"Does Doing Good Always Bring Good? Employees' Attribution Matters in Their Reactions to Proactive Corporate Social Responsibility","authors":"Qi Song, Qinglan Yang, Yuanyuan Liu, Yongfang Li, Hui Lv, Yang Chen","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Given the profound influence of organizations on societal well-being and their role in environmental stewardship, there is a growing trend for organizations to proactively integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into human resource management (HRM) practices to align with societal expectations and sustainable development goals. However, the consequences of proactive CSR from an employee perspective are not well understood. Drawing on attribution theory, this study investigates whether employees' different attributions of perceived proactive CSR have a positive or negative impact on their attitudes and subsequent behaviors in a Chinese context. The findings of a time-lagged field survey involving 430 employees and 131 leaders reveal that when employees attribute perceived proactive CSR to substantive motives, their organizational identifications are more likely to increase, leading to their taking charge. Conversely, when employees attribute perceived proactive CSR to symbolic motives, they are more likely to experience an increase in organizational stigma, resulting in job withdrawal.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923377","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":"Unpacking Algorithmic Management: Pathways to Team Resilience Through Reduced Objectification and Informal Leadership","authors":"Ping Liu, Ling Yuan, Junli Wang","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As algorithmic management (AM) becomes an increasingly prominent feature of the digital workplace, understanding its implications for human resource management (HRM) is both timely and critical. This study investigates how AM, as an emerging HRM practice, contributes to team resilience (TR)—a key strategic goal for HR professionals seeking to foster adaptability and sustainability in uncertain environments. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we develop and test a model in which AM reduces managerial objectification (MO) and facilitates informal leadership emergence, ultimately enhancing TR. Based on a multi-wave field survey of enterprise managers in China, our findings reveal a dual-path mechanism: AM improves TR both cognitively, by reshaping managerial perceptions of employees, and behaviorally, by triggering bottom-up leadership processes. A sequential mediation pathway—AM → MO → informal leadership → TR—is also supported. This study contributes to HRM research by demonstrating how algorithmic systems can be designed and leveraged to promote resilient, self-organizing teams. Practical implications are offered for HR practitioners aiming to implement AM in ways that empower both managers and employees.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144869407","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":"Concepts in Smart Societies' Next Generation of Human Resources and Technologies. By Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Antonella Petrillo and Shahid Ul Islam, Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. 376 pp. £108.75. ISBN: 9781032170343","authors":"Putri Inggrid Maria Risamasu, Adrianus Aprilius","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144810944","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":"Correction to “The Persistence of Global Workplace Gender Inequality: What Does a Wicked Problems Framework Bring to HRM Research and Practice?”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fitzsimmons, T.W., O'brien, K.R. Crane, M.E., Head, B.W. & Callan, V.J. (2025). <i>Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management</i>, 63(3): e70017</p><p>In Section 3.1, “Author 2 et al., 2019 REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW”</p><p>Citation should be O'Brien et al. (2019)</p><p>O'Brien, K. R., Holmgren, M., Fitzsimmons, T.W., Crane, M.E., Maxwell, P., & Head, B. (2019). What is gender equality in science? <i>Trends in Ecology and Evolution</i>, 34, 395–399.</p><p>In Section 3.3, “Author 4 and another, 2015 REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW”</p><p>Citation should be Head and Alford (2015)</p><p>Head, B.W. & Alford, J. (2015). Wicked problems implications for public policy and management. <i>Administration and Society</i>, 47, 711–739.</p><p>In Section 4.4, “Author 4, 2019 REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW”</p><p>Citation should be Head (2019)</p><p>Head, B.W. (2019). Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies. <i>Policy & Society</i>, 38, 180–197.</p><p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144673121","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}
Jean-Etienne Joullié, Anthony M. Gould, Jeffrey Muldoon
{"title":"Leadership and Human Resource Management: Oil and Water in the Same Vessel","authors":"Jean-Etienne Joullié, Anthony M. Gould, Jeffrey Muldoon","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The task of integrating projects pursued under the banner of human resource management (HRM) with conjecture about leadership axiomatically requires that such integration be possible. However, the extent of compatibility between the substance of HRM and reflection on leadership has largely remained unexamined. Using examples to illustrate the points being made, this article prosecutes the case that much HRM theory as well as its practice and leadership conjecture invoke divergent ways of speaking about collectively pursued objectives and entail differing perspectives of obedience. One way to reconcile the two domains is to revisit the conceptual underpinnings of mainstream contemporary HRM scholarship and, in particular, this corpus' well-documented emergence from Alan Fox's conception of a unitarist frame of reference. Such a reappraisal of the nature of HRM enables concerned scholars to benefit from insight provided by their peers writing about leadership and provides an opportunity for improved practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574095","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}
Sardana Islam Khan, Timothy Bartram, Jillian Cavanagh, Pradeepa Dahanayake
{"title":"The Effects of Human Resource Strength and Social Identification on Employee Performance: The Case of Bangladeshi Private Commercial Banks","authors":"Sardana Islam Khan, Timothy Bartram, Jillian Cavanagh, Pradeepa Dahanayake","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study was carried out in two private commercial banks in Bangladesh. The purpose was to examine the effects of HR strength on the social identification of employees through the interactions of employees with their line managers and relationships within work groups and ultimately employee performance. Underpinned by social identity theory, we tested three hypotheses using 436 respondents. Findings confirmed our hypotheses: social identification mediated the relationship between HR strength and employee performance; social interaction with the line manager and social identification sequentially mediated the relationship between HR strength and employee performance; and the quality of relationships within the work team and social identification sequentially mediated HR strength and employee performance. We contribute to new understandings of the role of social identification processes in explaining the link between HRM and employee performance in high power distance and collectivist cultures. Implications are drawn for HR managers by demonstrating the role of HR strength and social identification in supporting employee performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519807","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}