The mediating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between participative goal setting and team outcomes – a study in China

In the late twentieth century, it is popular to research the effect of participative goal setting. The general conclusion is that the relationship between participation and performance is inconsistent and unclear at individual level. With team becoming a more dominant mode in organizing, motivating, and managing, it is worthwhile to investigate the effect of participation in team goal setting. This study aims to test the mediating effect of psychological empowerment (PE) on the relationship between participative team goal setting and team identity and team performance. Executive MBA students (371) in 75 groups from China Europe International Business School in China participated in the study. The data from Business Strategy Game and questionnaire found positive relationship between participative team goal setting and team identification, and team performance is partially mediated by PE. Implications for the goal-setting theory and practice are discussed, and future research directions offered.     

浅谈如何做好事业单位岗位设置管理工作

事业单位实施岗位设置管理工作,是事业单位人事制度改革的重大创新,涉及到单位职工的切身利益,对单位发展起到至关重要的作用。通过组织实施岗位设置管理工作的实践活动,从岗位设置管理的三个主要环节入手,对事业单位岗位设置管理工作中主要做法和需要注意的问题进行了概述,为其他事业单位的岗位设置管理工作提供借鉴。     

谦卑型领导如何激活员工工作重塑行为

随着企业外部环境动荡水平的激增,如何激活员工工作重塑行为受到越来越多研究者的关注。在以往研究的基础上,本文构建一个有调节的中介模型探讨谦卑型领导如何以及何时会影响员工工作重塑行为。基于社会信息加工理论,本文选择工作自主性和学习目标导向来解释谦卑型领导对工作重塑的影响机制。其中,工作自主性反映了员工对“能不能进行工作重塑”的主观认知,学习目标导向反映了员工“愿不愿意进行工作重塑”的内在动机,并且工作自主性还会影响员工的学习目标导向。此外,本文进一步假设团队创新氛围会调节上述间接作用。通过对嵌套在32个团队中的194份领导-员工配对数据分析发现：谦卑型领导显著正向影响员工工作重塑行为;工作自主性和学习目标导向链式中介谦卑型领导对员工工作重塑行为的影响;团队创新氛围跨层次正向调节工作自主性在谦卑型领导与工作重塑之间的中介作用,表现为有调节的中介作用。本文研究结果对于如何激活员工工作重塑行为,提高组织的环境适应能力具有一定的启示和借鉴意义。     

人-组织匹配度与工作绩效之间的相关性研究

人-组织匹配(P-O Fit)已成为当今国内外企业管理者和学者研究的热点领域,也是人力资源管理与组织行为学研究的热点问题。主要是因为二者的匹配度能很好地预测个人的工作态度和行为结果,从而影响组织绩效。本文以深圳一民营高科技企业为调查对象,分析研究了个人、组织价值观及其匹配与工作满意度、工作绩效的关系与影响。     

Experience Matters? The Impact of Prior CEO Experience on Firm Performance

We sample CEOs of the 2005 S&P 500 corporations to look at the relationship between experience in the CEO position of a different firm and the post‐succession financial performance of the firm that they currently lead. We find that experience in the CEO position is negatively related to firm performance. CEOs who directly move to their current CEO position from the previous one and those with job‐specific experience in the same or related industry or at the helm of a previous company similar in size to the current one are associated with significantly lower post‐succession performance than those without prior CEO experience. The results contribute to the literatures on CEO succession, the performance effect of job‐specific experience, and the transferability of human capital. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

工作绩效结构研究综述

作为在西方组织心理学领域被研究了百年的概念,工作绩效已不是一个新的研究议题,然而近些年,随着国外关于工作绩效以及战略性绩效研究的兴起,工作绩效结构问题又成为研究的热点。国内外学者在传统的绩效结构基础上,构建了不同的绩效结构框架,或者对于绩效结构的拓展做出了进一步的研究,本文结合国内外工作绩效结构的研究进展,进一步澄清工作绩效的结构问题。     

Pursuing your leader development: Lessons from 101 executives

To lead effectively in a VUCA (i.e., volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environment, leaders must quickly and continuously acquire new skills. However, formal development opportunities aren’t nearly enough to support the ongoing skill development leaders need to manage the level of complexity and change they are facing. Instead, leaders must take ownership of their own development. In this paper, we describe a straightforward, four-step process that leaders can implement to pursue their individualized development through leader development planning. Specifically, we walk leaders through the evidence-based steps of creating their unique leader development plan (LDP), including (1) identifying their leadership strengths and weaknesses, (2) setting effective leader development goals, (3) designing SMART strategies, and (4) reflecting, refining, and realigning their plan. Throughout the article, we detail positive examples as well as common pitfalls that we observed from our work supporting 101 mid- to senior-level leaders in designing their LDPs. Our purpose in doing so is to provide tools and examples to enable leaders at all levels to drive their development at their own pace.     

物理环境对工作绩效的影响分析

文章通过对物理环境进行定义、分析,将其与现实员工绩效相联系,试图说明物理环境对员工的绩效具有影响力。     

How mass layoffs are related to lower job performance and OCB among surviving employees in Chile: an investigation of the essential role of psychological contract

This study aimed to investigate how mass layoffs impact surviving employees in organizations. More specifically, this study ascertained the relationships between mass layoffs and employee work behaviors. It was theorized that mass layoffs will be negatively related to employee performance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) through its relationships with job insecurity and psychological contract breach. Moreover, it was expected that perceived manager support would buffer against the negative relations of contract breach with employee performance and OCB. A study among 615 employees in multiple Chilean organizations showed support for the hypotheses: job insecurity and psychological contract breach mediated the relationships between mass layoffs and employee performance and OCB. We also found moderating relationships of manager support, but the relations of breach with performance and OCB were particularly negative when manager support was high, indicating feelings of betrayal among high-support employees in response to contract breach. Moreover, the relation of contract breach with performance was positive for low-support employees, and non-significant for high-support employees. Our study advances understanding of the processes underlying how mass layoffs influence employee behavior in the workplace, through introducing the psychological contract as a way of understanding the relationships.     

“大五”人格模型及其在人事测评中的应用

“大五”人格模型的5种人格特质包括神经质、外向性、开放性、宜人性和尽责性。此模型对社会心理学与组织心理学及心理学的其他方面的研究和应用起到积极作用,很多研究者就“大五”人格模型和工作绩效的关系进行了研究,得出了很多具有理论意义的实践价值的结论,并以此作为人事测评的依据。     

Management by objectives – an effective tool for teamwork?

In recent years many companies have introduced self-regulatory teamwork requiring changes in leadership behaviour and systems as well. Consequently a renewed interest has arisen in management by objectives (MBO) as a means for leading self-regulating teams. But how do MBO systems work and how effective are they? The MBO system of a company in the construction supply industry was analysed. This company had implemented MBO at team level five years ago. In order to explore the mechanisms and effects of MBO at team level a model for group goal setting was tested. One hundred and seventy-six employees in twenty-six teams participated in the study, but only twenty-one groups having objective productivity data were included in the analyses at team level. Group goal commitment and group goals moderated by task interdependence are supposed to influence group processes as a mediating variable for group effectiveness. Results do not consistently support this model. Group goals and goal commitment predict group productivity and job satisfaction but group processes mediate only the relationship to job satisfaction. The moderating effect of task interdependence could not be supported. The consequences for developing a model for MBO at team level and implementing effective MBO systems are discussed.