John Shields, Sunghoon Kim, Anjali Chhetri, Pauline Stanton, Alan Nankervis
{"title":"Traditional, transitional and new performance management practices in Australian organisations: incidence, coverage and perceived effectiveness","authors":"John Shields, Sunghoon Kim, Anjali Chhetri, Pauline Stanton, Alan Nankervis","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12372","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12372","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The shortcomings of traditional performance management practices (PMS) are widely acknowledged. There is growing interest in ‘New Performance Management’, suggesting a shift from an evaluative to a developmental focus. In Australia, little is known about the current utilisation of both ‘old’ and ‘new’ practices. Using survey data from Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) members we examine the incidence, coverage and perceived effectiveness of ‘traditional’, ‘transitional’ and ‘new’ practices in Australian organisations. Further, since data were gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic, we examine the reported effects of pandemic-related disruptions on practice intensity. Although descriptive results suggest that both workforce size and sector may be associated with practice incidence, regression results indicate that sectoral effects are non-significant, and size matters only in relation to traditional practice use. However, our regression results indicate that COVID-19's impact is significantly related to all three practice categories. Furthermore, overall PMS effectiveness is not rated highly.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"61 3","pages":"554-581"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.12372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48190216","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":"COVID in Australia: HR managers' challenges and opportunities","authors":"Julie Connell, John Burgess, Roslyn Larkin","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12373","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12373","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transitions to working from home due to the COVID pandemic led to a proliferation of literature and industry reports on changed work practices. However, this study set out to advance understanding of how human resource professionals managed the crises – adding to the limited literature on this perspective. Data was collected during late 2020/early 2021 through interviews with human resource professionals. Data was analysed using coding techniques enabling findings to be organised into relevant concepts and categories. Contributions to practice include the range of challenges and opportunities associated with working from home, which are outlined here as technical and behavioural recommendations. These include the need for improved IT support and IT literacy across the workforce; issues linked to employee isolation, managing privacy, workload, and the management of remote employees. This paper draws on institutional theory, stressing the importance of context in shaping HRM strategies in times of crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"61 3","pages":"535-553"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49153455","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":"Promoting employee career growth: the benefits of sustainable human resource management","authors":"Bao Cheng, Xiaotong Yu, Yun Dong, Chong Zhong","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12371","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12371","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To achieve sustainable development, research has indicated that organizations and individuals should be aware of the significance of sustainable human resource management (HRM) practices. However, relatively little research has investigated individual outcomes. This study links sustainable HRM practices with an important individual outcome: career growth. Using social cognitive career theory, this study investigated psychological capital and career growth as beneficial outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, proposing person–organization (P-O) fit as a key boundary condition. Based on time-lagged survey data collected from a Chinese company, the study found that sustainable HRM practices could significantly promote psychological capital and career growth. Moreover, P-O fit magnified the beneficial impact of sustainable HRM practices on psychological capital while further moderating the mediating effect of psychological capital. When P-O fit was high, the effects of sustainable HRM practices on psychological capital and career growth were stronger. In addition, we discussed theoretical contributions and practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46431745","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":"Smartdevice use in a COVID-19 world: Exploring work–family conflict and turnover intentions","authors":"Simon Wilkinson, Jarrod Haar","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12370","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12370","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Technology has made life more complex, and mobile working (mWork) captures the way employees’ smart-device use (e.g. smartphones, laptops etc.) can facilitate working during family time at home and what the effects of this use are. Engaging in mWork is expected to be detrimental to employee outcomes. In this study, mWork is explored as it relates to turnover intentions and work–family and family–work conflict, with conflict expected to mediate the influence on turnover. Furthermore, given the potential dynamics from gender and parental status, these are both included as moderators, and ultimately a moderated mediation model is tested. Using data from 419 New Zealand employees just after New Zealand's lockdown finished in May 2020, there is overall strong support found for the direct and mediation hypotheses. Overall, mWork influences turnover intentions by blurring the line between work and personal life (leading to higher work–family and family–work conflict), and these also influence turnover intentions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"61 4","pages":"981-1007"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.12370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47860651","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":"From opportunity to threat: the non-linear relationship between voice frequency and job performance via voice endorsement","authors":"Limei Zhang, Hui Chen","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12368","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12368","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How managers evaluate employees' ideas and when they endorse or reject them have always been concerns. Based on categorization theory, we theorize that middle managers with multiple responsibilities and limited resources tend to label excessive voices as threats instead of opportunities. We thus propose an inverted U-shaped relationship between voice frequency and voice endorsement that sequentially influences job performance. Further, perceived task interdependence, related to how an individual makes sense of issues in the team, will influence voice content and moderate the curvilinear relationship between voice frequency and job performance through voice endorsement. A three-wave time-lagged survey of Chinese firms, including 299 employees and 37 supervisors, provided convergent support for this theoretical model. Our research contributes to the voice literature by exploring how middle managers' limited resources and multiple responsibilities influence their voice evaluation process. This research thus has practical implications for both organizations and employees, as it suggests organizations allocate resources to facilitate managers' implementation of voice and provides suggestions for effective voice experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49461702","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 effects of congruence between digital HRM systems and previous non-digital HRM systems on firms' data-driven insights","authors":"Yu Zhou, Yunqing Zou","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12369","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12369","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although the application of digital technology has long been considered to be an important and integral trend in human resource management (HRM), emerging evidence hints that digital HRM systems may not always work well in practice, and increasing research suggests that the adoption of digital HRM systems might have negative effects on organizations. In this article, we investigate whether a match in the levels of internal consistency exhibited by a digital HRM system and an original high-performance work system (HPWS), i.e. congruence, impacts firms' data-driven insight generation. We find that congruence between the digital HRM system and the original HPWS has a negative impact on firms' capability to generate data-driven insights. Furthermore, organizations with high levels of internal consistency in both the digital and the original non-digital HRM systems (i.e. high–high congruence) exhibit better data-driven insight generation than organizations with low levels of internal consistency in both systems (i.e. low–low congruence). The results also reveal that the effect of congruence negatively influences firm financial performance and mediated by data-driven insight generation. We discuss the implications of this study and call for future research to consider the characteristics of digital HRM systems and the original traditional HRM systems simultaneously.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"61 4","pages":"952-980"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42783345","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}
Kim Southey, Bernadette Lynch, Dennis Rose, Abdul Hafeez-Baig
{"title":"The potential influence of prior work experience on unfair dismissal arbitration decisions related to employee misconduct: an exploratory study of decision styles","authors":"Kim Southey, Bernadette Lynch, Dennis Rose, Abdul Hafeez-Baig","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12366","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reports on an exploratory aspect of a larger study that examines unfair dismissal arbitration decisions relating to misconduct derived dismissals made by Australia's federal industrial tribunal. The central proposition explored is that an association occurs between the arbitrator's work history and their decision to overturn a dismissal. The arbitrators' previous occupations were classified based on their alignment with unitarist (employer harmony) and pluralist (worker interests) frameworks, or the ‘blended’ place in between. Subsequent logistic regression modelling allowed us to identify three types of arbitral decision styles: <i>systems-driven</i>, <i>evidence-based</i> and <i>restorative-voice</i>. These decision styles offer our readership a descriptive framework that consolidates statistically significant decision factors. Australian media reports and professional forums scrutinise the appointment of members to its national industrial tribunal and the decisions that they make. The decision styles presented here can inform organisational stakeholders, including workers, HR managers, supervisors, unions and industry bodies who need to apply and/or respond to misconduct-driven dismissal processes or formulate relevant policies, processes and systems such as codes of conduct or performance management.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"61 3","pages":"582-612"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.12366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49119943","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":"Complementary effects of high-performance work systems and temporal leadership on employee creativity: a social embeddedness perspective of thriving","authors":"Yu Zhou, Guoyang Zheng, Guangjian Liu, Zhipeng Zhang","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12365","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12365","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies on how high-performance work systems (HPWS) enhance employee creativity are primarily based on relationship- and motivation-related theories, while some scholars have argued that HPWS may promote performance at the expense of employee well-being. Based primarily on a social embeddedness framework of thriving, this study introduces the human dimension of the sustainability perspective and investigates the indirect effect of HPWS on creativity through evidence of employees' thriving at work. We further explore the moderating role of temporal leadership in the relationship between HPWS and thriving. Hypotheses are tested using multi-wave, multi-source data from 235 employees and their direct supervisors. The contribution of this study lies in explaining how employee creativity is triggered by HPWS and how temporal leadership complements HPWS.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44577084","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":"Control HRM and employee creativity: a curvilinear moderated mediation model","authors":"Yiqi Wu, Qinxuan Gu","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12364","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on social information processing theory (SIP) and activation theory, this study theorizes a curvilinear moderated mediation model that links employee-experienced control human resource management (control HRM) and employee creativity. Using multisource data from 814 employees and 157 supervisors, we find that employee-experienced control HRM has an inverted U-shaped relationship with employee work vigor and that work vigor is positively related to employee creativity. Employee-experienced commitment HRM moderates the direct effect of employee-experienced control HRM on work vigor and the indirect effect on employee creativity. When employee-experienced commitment HRM is high and employee-experienced control HRM is moderate, employees are more vigorous and in turn more creative. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41946924","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":"Examining the effects of male candidates' gender nonconformity on employment decisions","authors":"Yingming Li, Xuhua Wei","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1744-7941.12363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our research aimed to explore how interviewers perceive male candidates' gender nonconformity during job interviews and how job type may play a role in the process. Based on role congruity theory, we propose that male candidates' gender nonconformity negatively affects employment decisions through cognitive and affective processes (i.e. perceived expectancy violation and likability). Further, based on the literature on occupational gender stereotypes, we examined the moderating effect of job type on the above indirect process. We believe that the negative indirect effects of male candidates' gender nonconformity on employment decisions through perceived expectancy violation and likability will be weakened when interviewing for female-dominated jobs compared with male-dominated jobs. We found robust evidence consistent with our theoretical assertion using three independent between-subjects experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41864416","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}