To Empower or Not to Empower? Multilevel Effects of Empowering Leadership on Knowledge Hiding

It is widely acknowledged that knowledge hiding persists and has detrimental effects in service organizations. With organizations increasingly becoming team based, understanding the interactions between supervisor and team members especially how team- and individual-level empowering leadership behaviors influence followers’ knowledge hiding is important. Using data on 527 followers from 60 departments in 19 Chinese hotels, the study proposes a multilevel model to examine the manifestation of two types of empowering leadership (individual-focused and differentiated empowering leadership) and the dual-level processes on followers’ knowledge hiding. Results show that differentiated empowering leadership is positively related to followers’ knowledge hiding via group relational conflict, whereas individual-focused empowering leadership is negatively related to followers’ knowledge hiding via their psychological safety. In addition, follower’s psychological safety buffers the positive relationship between group relational conflict and followers’ knowledge hiding. We discuss the implications on both theory and practice of empowering leadership on knowledge hiding.     

Green human resource management and the enablers of green organisational culture: Enhancing a firm's environmental performance for sustainable development

Scholars have shown that green human resource management (GHRM) practices enhance a firm's environmental performance. However, existing studies fail to explain how GHRM initiatives can enable a green organisational culture or how such a culture affects the environmental performance and sustainable development of the firm. This paper examines the relationship between GHRM practices, the enablers of green organisational culture, and a firm's environmental performance. We conduct a large‐scale survey of 204 employees at Chinese manufacturing firms. Our findings suggest that proenvironmental HRM practices including hiring, training, appraisal, and incentivisation support the development of the enablers of green organisational culture. We suggest the key enablers of green organisational culture include leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement, and employee empowerment. Our paper contributes to HRM theory in terms of originality and utility of research by explaining that the enablers of green organisational culture positively mediate the relationship between GHRM practices and environmental performance. Managers are provided with a detailed understanding of the GHRM practices needed to enable an organisational culture of environmentally aware employees. Finally, we address potential implications of this work for teaching green organisational culture to future generations of responsible managers.     

企业文化对战略类型实施的影响

经营战略的有效实施是依赖于组织战略同企业内部管理流程及文化之间的匹配。过去几十年的时间里,大量的实证研究都集中于经营战略的匹配问题。本文在文献回顾的基础上,建立了企业文化类型与经营战略类型之间的对应关系,从而为企业通过选择和培育适当的企业文化来支持战略实施提供了理论方向。     

Determinants of organizational performance: some implications for top executive leadership in Korean firms

ABSTRACT

Leadership, although commonly assumed to be greatly significant, is not typically studied in terms of structural characteristics accounted for in organizational performance. The effect of top executive leadership is explored here as a key factor that reflects organizational characteristics by offering a new framework and presenting an empirical test of Korean business firms. This research can be possibly made by focusing on the size of the leadership which explicates the difference between structural, resource and contextual variables in organizations. The multivariate regression analysis shows that firm size, leadership, debt and export significantly affect organizational performance, as measured by net income. The mechanism of Korean business firms needs to readjust to the new environment for organizational performance.     

论企业文化的构建

随着社会经济的发展变化,现代企业的竞争已从产品竞争转向更深层次的文化理念的竞争。文章论述了我国传统企业文化的特点和认识上的不足,并提出了企业文化构建的一些途径,对如何构建企业文化进行了探讨。     

企业社会责任之“员工本位”的思考

企业承担着对员工的社会责任,要求企业应该按照国际公认的SA8000企业社会责任标准体系的要求实施管理,保障员工最基本的劳工权,还应体现以人为本的“员工本位”管理理念,使员工积极参与到企业文化建设和民主管理过程中,创造员工的个人价值,在企业管理过程中实现个人价值与企业价值的双重目标。     

中国移动“动感地带”的品牌营销

案例回顾了中国移动动感地带的发展过程和发展状况,通过分析移动通信行业的竞争环境和消费者群体划分,阐述了动感地带的品牌内涵和核心价值,扩展了整合营销包含的要素,分析了动感地带的渠道销售、文化促销和体验营销策略。案例为中国移动运营商对移动通信服务的品牌建立和营销策略提供借鉴。     

历史城镇的文化商业旅游发展模式

通过探讨历史城镇保护与开发的关系,对中国历史城镇发展中几种典型的错误商业形态进行了总结,并指出适宜的旅游商业化开发对历史城镇发展的必要性。提出历史城镇的文化商业发展模式:在其地域文化的基础上,发掘传统文化的内涵,并与多种商业形式结合进行综合开发。     

城市文化遗产保护与城市文化建设

从城市文化遗产与城市文化之间的紧密关系入手,认为文化遗产是城市发展的历史见证、特色体现及重要的发展资源;同时考察了当前快速城市化以及全球化的社会和时代背景对城市文化遗产保护所造成的严重冲击,以及城市对文化建设和特色塑造的必然追求,并就其传承与发展提出了相关建议。     

Franchisee leadership traits vs. manager leadership traits an exploratory study comparing hope, leadership, commitment and service quality delivery

In order to add to the understanding of the role of franchising in entrepreneurship and to help franchise systems improve efficiency, the constructs of organizational leadership, hope, organizational commitment, and service quality perceptions of franchised managers and franchisees are differentiated in the current study. For scholars and practitioners, the dynamic relationship between entrepreneurship, franchisees, and management is an important triangle which merits further investigation. While the results offered only that managers and franchisees differed statistically in service empathy, differences were noted across all areas which approached significance but was limited due to the small sample size. Implications for future research are discussed.