Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration: Volume 16 Issue 4

All's (not) fair in motherhood and work? Post-partum psychological contract breach experiences of Indian first-time mothers

Aparna M. Varma, Rahul Sivarajan

To understand how Indian first-time mothers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) organisations returning to work cope with the perceived ideological psychological…

Organizational career development and retention of millennial employees: the role of job engagement and organizational engagement

Lipsa Jena, Umakanta Nayak

The study examines the mediating mechanisms of job engagement (JE) and organizational engagement (OE) in the relationship between organizational career development (OCD) and…

Impact of difficult coworkers on employees' turnover intention: the mediating roles of perceived organizational support and affective commitment

Wai Ming To, Billy T.W. Yu

This study explores the impact of difficult coworkers on employees' turnover intention. Additionally, this study investigates the roles of employees' attitude toward difficult…

Enhancing employee advocacy of the firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities

Rojanasak Chomvilailuk, Ken Butcher

The paper aims to investigate how perceived psychological benefits from employee participation in corporate social responsibility activities affect organizational citizenship…

Role-play of employees' protean career and career success in affective organizational commitment

Muhammad Latif Khan, Rohani Salleh, Amjad Shamim, Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi

This paper aims to investigate the role-play of Protean Career Attitude (PCA) and Career Success (CS) in Affective Organizational Commitment (AOC).

Intellectual capital and performance: evidence from SMEs in Vietnam

Seh Young Kim, Dai Binh Tran

This paper investigated the relationship between intellectual capital (IC)/its components, and the business performance of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

The interplay of abusive supervision and coworker incivility on the turnover intention of frontliners: a mediation effect of work stress

Md Mostafizur Rahman

Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the present study aims to design and explore the influence of abusive supervision and coworker incivility on turnover intention…

Role of authentic leadership in enhancing employees' voice behavior through psychological capital during COVID-19 pandemic

Noman Rafique, Gul Afshan, Farooque Ahmed

Considering the importance of employees' voice behavior (VB) and psychological capital (PC) amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), this study highlights the role of…

Organic food purchases: does green trust play a part?

Irfana Rashid, Aashiq Hussain Lone

Organic food consumption has received great attention due to the increase in consumer environmental and health concerns. This study intends to analyse how customers' green…

The interaction of organizational politics and political skill on employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying: the conservation of resources theory perspective

Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol

Considering the detrimental impact of workplace cyberbullying on employees and organizations, it is necessary to understand factors that potentially induce employees to engage in…

From harasser tourists to above the law managers: female tour guides strategies for coping with sexual harassment

Mohamed Mousa, Hala Abdelgaffar, Islam Elbayoumi Salem, Walid Chaouali, Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz

This study examines how far female tour guides in Egypt experience sexual harassment and how they cope with it.

Cronyism as a coping strategy: how do female academics deal with the lack of emancipative support?

Mohamed Mousa, Doaa Althalathini, Hala Abdelgaffar

This paper aims to explore how female academics use cronyism to cope with the lack of emancipative support resulting from their intense teaching and research duties, poor…

Job embeddedness and life satisfaction during pandemic: the impacts of work-from-home stressors and emotional exhaustion

Decha Dechawatanapaisal

This study applies the job demands-resources model the conservation of resources theory to explain and examine the impacts of home-work conflict, perceived insufficient…

Does basic need satisfaction foster engagement by serving as a personal demand? A mediation model based on a self-determination perspective

Muhammad Waqas, Tehreem Fatima, Zafar Uz Zaman Anjum

Taking job demand-resource (JD-R) and self-determination perspective, the current study focused to see how basic need satisfaction (BNS) – as a personal demand – impacts work…