Zhenyuan Wang, Jiyu Li, Mengxi Yang, Yan Wang, Xi Chen
{"title":"Organizational Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Employees Taking Charge in Chinese Manufacturing Industry: A Moderated Mediation Model","authors":"Zhenyuan Wang, Jiyu Li, Mengxi Yang, Yan Wang, Xi Chen","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Chinese manufacturing industry is driving workflow optimization and employee productivity improvements. However, evidence suggests that the use of AI technology increases the complexity and uncertainty of organizational environments, creating many challenges for employees. Utilizing data from 337 participants collected through a three-stage, time-lagged survey, this study investigates the impact of organizational AI adoption on employees' taking charge behavior through the lens of conservation of resources theory. The findings reveal that psychological availability mediates the influence of organizational AI adoption on employees' taking charge. Employee approach-avoidance motivation plays a moderating role in this relationship. Specifically, approach motivation amplifies the positive impact of organizational AI adoption on psychological availability, whereas avoidance motivation diminishes it. These insights offer significant theoretical and practical contributions to the discourse on the relationship between organizational AI adoption and taking charge in the Chinese manufacturing industry.</p>\u0000 </div>","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":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519782","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":"Being Proactive for My Family: An Examination of the Impact of Family Motivation on the Proactivity Among Blue-Collar Employees","authors":"Zilong Cui, Kaixin Zhang","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Based on self-determination theory and the proactive motivation model, we explore the effects of family motivation on proactivity among blue-collar employees. By referring to a sample of 588 blue-collar employees from one Chinese company and a three-wave and leader-follower dyad design, we find that family motivation promotes the likelihood of proactivity through psychological meaningfulness. In addition, family-supportive supervisor behaviors strengthen the relationship between family motivation and psychological meaningfulness, and also strengthen the indirect relationship between family motivation and proactivity via psychological meaningfulness. Our study provides a comprehensive insight to understand the relationship between family motivation and proactivity among blue-collar employees with practical implications for human resource management.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309143","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":"Boundary Condition of Sorting: How Collective Pay-for-Performance Constrains the Moderating Effect of Individual Pay-for-Performance on the Turnover–Performance Relationship","authors":"Yin Lee","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing research on compensation suggests that individual pay-for-performance (PFP) induces the sorting effect, enhancing firm performance. The sorting effect promotes the redistribution of employee performance by increasing the retention of high performers and increasing the turnover of poor performers. However, little is known about the moderating effect of individual PFP on the relationship between collective turnover and firm performance. Integrating insights from collective turnover and compensation research, this study proposes that individual PFP's sorting effect can reduce the negative impact of collective turnover on firm performance under certain contexts. Using nationally representative panel data on Korean firms, this study found that individual PFP reduces the negative relationship between collective turnover and firm performance only in the absence of collective PFP. However, this research has also found that the simultaneous utilization of individual and collective PFPs exacerbates the negative impact of collective turnover on firm performance. These findings offer novel insights into using diverse incentives in managing the performance effects of collective turnover.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300181","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":"The Nuts-and-Bolts Problem: Delivering Evidence-Based Operational Advice to Line Managers","authors":"Carol T. Kulik","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Human Resource (HR) research literature's dominant narrative has historically focused on the strategic activities of HR professionals. HR researchers view HR professionals as their primary end users and have prioritized the business case for strategic HR. But as line managers become more involved in delivering—and even designing—HR activities in their local work environments, there is a greater need for HR researchers to attend to operational HR (the nuts and bolts). This need is particularly pressing in Asia Pacific organizations, where small HR units rely on line managers to deliver people management in dynamic and turbulent work environments. The nuts-and-bolts problem takes several different forms and is visible across the HR literature (e.g., in literature discussing transfer of training, star performer management, and employee alumni relationships). At a minimum, HR researchers should write actionable practical recommendations that enable readers to find the relevant nuts and bolts scattered across the HR academic literature. Fully addressing the nuts-and-bolts problem might involve HR researchers co-designing research with managers and/or inviting managers to interpret research findings. In the long run, these activities will deliver an HR research literature that conveys more empathy for line managers and a greater appreciation of the important role they play in delivering HR in organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1744-7941.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219968","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":"When Green Turns Gray: The Double-Edged Spillover Effects From Green Behavior to Time Theft via Dual Feedback Loops of Moral Self-Regulation","authors":"Rongrong Zhang, Yuxin Liu, Xuefei Wang, Yang Luo","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Extant research has uniformly highlighted the positive role of extra-role employee green behavior (EEGB) in promoting organizational sustainability. Consequently, prior studies have predominantly focused on EEGB's antecedents, while its implications for the actors themselves have been largely underexplored. Drawing on the dual feedback loops of moral self-regulation, we challenge the prevailing assumption that engaging in EEGB is solely beneficial by identifying its potential dark side. Specifically, we propose that EEGB exerts double-edged effects on employee time theft, contingent on green behavior authenticity. An experimental study with 208 full-time employees and a two-phase field study with 412 full-time employees consistently revealed that EEGB aggravated employee time theft through accumulated moral credits, while conversely reducing time theft through strengthened moral identity. Moreover, we identified green behavior authenticity as a pivotal boundary condition moderating these opposing effects, attenuating the negative pathway while amplifying the positive pathway. Our findings offer significant implications for organizational behavioral ethics research and provide guidance for organizations in fostering EEGB while mitigating its potential ethical risks.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219970","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":"Is Enterprise-Union Coupling Relationship a Promising Way to Improve Platform Workers' Flexibility? A Sensemaking Perspective","authors":"Enhua Hu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Mingyan Han, Hongmei Shan","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Flexibility is an important ability of platform workers to adapt to the ever-changing job requirements and the environment in which they work. It is beneficial for enhancing platform workers' work efficiency and promoting the development of platform enterprises. Grounded in sensemaking theory, a theoretical model based on the Chinese industrial relationship context was constructed to reveal the influence of the enterprise-union coupling relationship (EUCR) on platform workers' flexibility. Data from 322 platform workers were analyzed to test the theoretical model. The results indicate the following: (1) Relative to the management practices of platform enterprises (i.e., human resource management practices), EUCR can generate incremental effects on platform workers' flexibility; (2) EUCR promotes career calling, which in turn, improves platform workers' flexibility; and (3) Customer gratitude expression strengthens the relationship between EUCR and career calling, leading to a higher level of flexibility. This study identified new factors affecting platform workers' flexibility from the perspective of interactions between platform enterprises and trade unions. It offers practical guidance for platform enterprises and trade unions in China to provide spiritual support and value transmission to platform workers to boost their flexibility.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219969","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}
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}