Md Shariful Alam Khandakar and Faizuniah Pangil
The purpose of this paper is to explain the mediation effect of affective commitment on the relationship between human resource management practices and informal workplace…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explain the mediation effect of affective commitment on the relationship between human resource management practices and informal workplace learning.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper develops a conceptual framework along with propositions by integrating comprehensive literatures, in the field of human resource management, affective commitment and informal workplace learning. Through the review of detail literature and based on the situated learning theory (Lave and Wenger, 1991) and organizational support theory (Eisenberger et al., 1986; Rhoades and Eisenberger, 2002; – and Eisenberger, 2006), it is proposed that eight human resource practices could affect informal workplace learning. Moreover, it is also argued that affective commitment could mediate the relationship between HRM practices and informal workplace learning.
Findings
This paper provides a conceptual framework on human resource management practices and informal workplace learning which is mediated by affective commitment.
Originality/value
None of the models presented in the literature details the mediation of affective commitment on the relationship between human resource management practices and informal workplace learning which is mediated by affective commitment as indeed the most recent research on the subject envisages.
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Md Shariful Alam Khandakar and Faizuniah Pangil
This study aims to examine the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and informal workplace learning.
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to examine the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and informal workplace learning.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from a sample of 381 employees working as heads of the department of branches in private commercial banks of Bangladesh. Hypotheses were tested by using structural equation modelling-partial least square.
Findings
Findings of the study revealed that HRM practices such as selective hiring, extensive training, performance appraisal, compensation practices, empowerment and information-sharing, significantly positively related with informal workplace learning.
Originality/value
Based on the situated learning and organizational support theory, this study is empirically testing how HRM practices influence informal workplace learning.
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Chhanda Biswas, Santus Kumar Deb, Abdulla Al-Towfiq Hasan and Md. Shariful Alam Khandakar
The study aims to examine the relationship between destination attributes and tourist satisfaction as well as the extent to which emotional involvement mediates between…
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Purpose
The study aims to examine the relationship between destination attributes and tourist satisfaction as well as the extent to which emotional involvement mediates between destination attributes and tourist satisfaction.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from a sample of 600 domestic tourists by using a purposive sampling technique where 382 samples were useable, and the response rate was 63.67%. The structural equation modeling (SmartPLS 3.0.) was used to test the hypothesized relationship among variables.
Findings
Among the 16 hypothesized paths, 13 were supported. Destination attributes (accommodation, attraction, food and beverages and transportation) except safety significantly influence tourist satisfaction; herein accommodation has the greatest effect on tourist satisfaction. Similarly, destination attributes except safety significantly influence tourists’ emotional involvement. This study also reveals that tourists’ emotional involvement partially mediates in the link between destination attributes except for safety and customer satisfaction.
Research limitations/implications
The results of the study will assist the hospitality researchers and managers to understand the roles of destination attributes and emotional involvement on tourist satisfaction in the tourism industry.
Originality/value
The study is the first to explore the mediating relationship in the link between destination attributes and tourist satisfaction in the tourism industry.
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Sarmin Sultana and Md. Shariful Alam Khandakar
The main purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and impersonal trust. The study focuses on five HRM practices…
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Purpose
The main purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and impersonal trust. The study focuses on five HRM practices, namely training, fair reward and promotion opportunity, employment security and performance appraisal and impact of those on impersonal trust.
Design/methodology/approach
Data for the study have been collected from 384 front line service provider female employees of 39 private commercial banks through non-probability judgmental sampling technique and analyzed by applying structural equation modeling-partial least square (SEM-PLS) method.
Findings
The findings of the study reveals that all the five HRM practices, namely training, fair reward and promotion opportunity, employment security and performance appraisal, are positively and significantly related with impersonal trust.
Originality/value
Private commercial banks in Bangladesh are rapidly growing and facing huge competition to improve the competitive advantage of employees. Impersonal trust of employees is required for achieving competitive advantage. Due to the lack of research and scanty of knowledge in that field, the study offers a new avenue of existing knowledge to the stakeholders and researchers on how to develop impersonal trust with necessary recommendations.