Personnel Review: Volume 45 Issue 5

“Unwanted” and “bad,” but not “sexual”: Non-labelling of sexual harassment by Sri Lankan working women

Arosha S. Adikaram

As prior research has indicated, women who experience behaviors that fall under the accepted definitions of sexual harassment, do not label, acknowledge, or claim these behaviors…

Do all Chinese employees have the same cultural values? An exploratory investigation on differences in Chinese cultural values among state-, privately-, and US-owned firms

Kitae Kim, Kwon Yoon, Bongsoon Cho, Longzhen Li, Byoung Kwon Choi

Using Hofstede’s cultural value model, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how Chinese employees’ cultural values differ according to firm ownership type such as state-…

Choosing performance measures for incentive compensation: experimental evidence

Freddy C. Coronado, Christian A. Cancino

The purpose of this paper is to explain how two task characteristics and two individual differences influence which heuristics individuals use, and as a results explain their…

A theoretical classification of helping behavior and helping motives

Shih Yung Chou, Joseph M. Stauffer

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new classification of helping behavior using the recipient’s solicitation and the helper’s proactiveness. Additionally, the authors…

Psycho-social work dependency: a dualistic model and profile

Jyun-Kai Liang, Hsin-Lin Chang

Many people feel a connection to their work that could best be described as a dependency, due to its intensity and importance to their overall self-concept. It is likely that…

Networking behavior: from goal orientation to promotability

Yin-Mei Huang

Networking behaviors assist individuals in doing their jobs better and advancing their careers. However, most research emphasizes the effects of job characteristics on networking…

Strategic intent, organizational environment, and organizational learning mechanisms: A multiple-case study in the construction industry in Taiwan

Shih-Chieh Fang, Hung Ku Chen

The purpose of this paper is to develop different kinds of organizational learning mechanisms based on various types of strategic intents (proactive- and reactive-orientation) and…

Staying and performing: How human resource management practices increase job embeddedness and performance

Amy Wei Tian, John Cordery, Jos Gamble

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the effect of human resource management (HRM) practices on employees’ organisational job embeddedness and job performance…

Managerial tactics for communicating negative performance feedback

Michelle Brown, Carol T. Kulik, Victoria Lim

Delivering negative feedback to employees is highly problematic for managers. Negative feedback is important in generating improvements in employee performance, but likely to…

Influences of cultural orientations on Emirati women’s careers

Linzi J. Kemp, Fang Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to explore how cultural orientations influence Emirati women’s career development. Drawing on the cultural theories of Hofstede (1980, 2001) and House…

Emotional intelligence as a buffer of occupational stress

Cameron Newton, Stephen T.T. Teo, David Pick, Marcus Ho, Drew Thomas

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of emotional intelligence (EI) as a buffer to job stressors on employee adjustment.

Recruitment process outsourcing: a case study in Malaysia

Sim Siew-Chen, Gowrie Vinayan

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the conduct of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), based on a real-life case study of one company in Malaysia. The paper…

Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits: Do they work? If so, at what level do they work best?

Marilyn Spencer, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers, Randall Bowden

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees’ intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data…

Structural determinants of psychological well-being for knowledge workers in South Korea

Baek-Kyoo (Brian) Joo, Jong Gyu Park, Taejo Lim

Employee well-being has been an under-researched area in the field of human resources (HR) and organizational behavior. The purpose of this paper is to investigate personal…

The role of people and social context in promoting the IT organizational performance: Evidence from Portugal

José Luís Martinho, Carlos F. Gomes, Mahmoud M. Yasin

Motivated by the increasing role of information technology (IT) in today’s organizations, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between business and IT…

Workplace Well-Being: How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces

Vincent Cassar