Personnel Review: Volume 48 Issue 2

Testing mediation effects of social and economic exchange in linking organizational training investment to employee outcomes

Yuhee Jung, Norihiko Takeuchi

Although social exchange theory has long been used to explain employees’ positive work attitudes in response to perceived investment in employee development (PIED), few studies…

Workplace bullying: an examination of power and perpetrators

Helen De Cieri, Cathy Sheehan, Ross Donohue, Tracey Shea, Brian Cooper

The purpose of this paper is to apply the concept of power imbalance to explain workplace and demographic characteristics associated with bullying by different perpetrators in the…

Work intensification and health outcomes of health sector workers

James Chowhan, Margaret Denton, Catherine Brookman, Sharon Davies, Firat K. Sayin, Isik Zeytinoglu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of stress between work intensification and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) focusing on personal support workers (PSWs…

Psychological climate predicting job insecurity through occupational self-efficacy

Jasmina Tomas, Darja Maslić Seršić, Hans De Witte

The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesized mediation model that specifies psychological climate dimensions as antecedents of job insecurity, while accounting for…

Justifying new employees’ trials by fire: workplace hazing

Benjamin J. Thomas, Patricia Meglich

The purpose of this paper is to test the explanatory effects of the system justification theory on reactions to new employee hazing.

Work-personal life conflict and burnout in contact centers: The moderating role of affective commitment

Daniela Geraldes, Ema Madeira, Vânia Sofia Carvalho, Maria José Chambel

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the moderating role of affective commitment in the relationship between work-personal life conflict (WPLC) and burnout in the contact…

The role of group-level perceived organizational support and collective affective commitment in the relationship between leaders’ directive and supportive behaviors and group-level helping behaviors

Michel Tremblay, Marie-Claude Gaudet, Christian Vandenberghe

The purpose of this paper is to examine a model linking directive and supportive leadership to group-level helping behaviors via group-level perceived organizational support…

Responses to emotional exhaustion: do worker cooperatives matter?

Rhokeun Park

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of organizational identification in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and turnover intention. It also…

Linking leader–follower proactive personality congruence to creativity

Kumar Roopak, Sushanta Kumar Mishra, Ekta Sikarwar

Drawing from the literature on person–environment fit and proactive personality, the purpose of this paper is to empirically examine whether congruence between the proactive…

Modeling leadership and team performance: The mediation of collective efficacy and the moderation of team justice

Chieh-Peng Lin, Chu-Chun Wang, Shih-Chih Chen, Jui-Yu Chen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a research model that explains team performance based on social cognitive theory and social exchange theory. In the model, team performance…

Industry capital intensity and firms’ utilization of HCWS: does firm size matter?

Bo Zhang, Jianxun Chen, Amy Tian, Jonathan Morris, Hejun Fan

Following industry-based view’s (IBV) isomorphic trend among firms in the same industries, the purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to investigate whether industry capital…

Organizational socialization and ethical fit: a conceptual development by serendipity

David A.L. Coldwell, Mervywn Williamson, Danielle Talbot

A significant and increasing number of graduate recruits take up employment for specific companies by virtue of their ethical reputation and profiles. As such, ethical fit has…

How can we decrease burnout and safety workaround behaviors in health care organizations? The role of psychosocial safety climate

Sari Mansour, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

Conducted with a staff of 562 persons working in the health sector in Quebec, mainly nurses, the purpose of this paper is to test the indirect effects of psychosocial safety…

Perceived formal authority and the effectiveness of the HR department in Vietnam

Diep T.N. Nguyen, Stephen T.T. Teo, Helen De Cieri, Marcus Ho

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether formal authority of the HR department has any impact on line managers’ evaluations of HR department effectiveness.

Role negotiation and systems-level work-life balance

Kirsten M. Robertson, Brenda A. Lautsch, David R. Hannah

The purpose of this paper is to examine the processes underlying a systems perspective on work–life balance (WLB), with a particular focus on the tensions and role negotiations…

The relationships between job insecurity, psychological contract breach and counterproductive workplace behavior: Does employment status matter?

Bing Ma, Shanshi Liu, Hermann Lassleben, Guimei Ma

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of psychological contract breach on the relationship between job insecurity and counterproductive workplace behavior…