Big business in the Russian empire: A European perspective

This paper presents an inventory of the largest private companies in the Russian Empire in 1914, and their comparison to the largest contemporary British, German, and French companies identified by Youssef Cassis as ‘big business’. It focusses on three questions. First, how big was big business in Russia from a European perspective? Second, how did the structure of big business in Russia compare to that of other large European economies? And finally, how did foreign entrepreneurship appear in Russian big business? Drawing on new empirical evidence, it contributes to the discussion on the ‘backward’ and ‘peripheral’ character of the Russian economy before the First World War.     

愿景型领导行为与下属绩效的关系：积极情绪与愿景整合的链式中介作用

愿景型领导行为与下属绩效的关系越来越受到研究者重视。基于积极情绪的拓展-建构理论,构建“领导行为→下属情绪→下属行为→绩效”的研究框架,结果发现愿景型领导行为正向影响下属积极情绪和绩效,下属积极情绪在愿景型领导行为和愿景整合的关系中起中介作用,下属积极情绪和愿景整合在愿景型领导行为和下属绩效之间起链式中介作用,但下属积极情绪或愿景整合在愿景型领导行为和绩效之间的单独中介作用不显著。研究拓展了愿景型领导行为领域的作用机制研究,验证了愿景实施过程中下属中心地位的重要性,为愿景型领导行为如何提高下属绩效提供了理论指导。     

从道德的视角看员工对印象管理的运用

印象管理的研究文献中迄今几乎没有从道德的视角研究员工对印象管理的运用。本文借用道德理论和社会影响理论来提出如下命题:(1)道德认知发展水平高的员工运用印象管理策略的可能性要低于道德认知发展水平低的员工。(2)员工对道德推理的使用在道德认知发展水平与印象管理策略运用之间的关手上起到调节作用。(3)使用印象管理策略的员工比不使用者达到所希冀的结果的可能性要大。(4)道德领导在印象管理策略对所希冀的结果的作用上起到调节作用。     

Workplace ostracism and turnover intention: A moderated mediation model of job insecurity and coaching leadership

Workplace ostracism is prevalent and has profound consequences for both organizations and individuals. Based on the conservation of resources and job demands–resources theories, we propose a moderated mediation model to examine when and how workplace ostracism induces employee turnover intentions in China. We collected 214 valid questionnaires from a two-wave survey conducted in 28 Chinese hotels. The results indicate that workplace ostracism is positively associated with employees' turnover intentions. Moreover, this relationship is mediated by job insecurity and is stronger when coaching leadership is low. These findings shed light on the role of job insecurity and coaching leadership in the relationship and the importance of mitigating the destructive effects of workplace ostracism. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.     

Leading for collaborative public service innovation

ABSTRACT

This article examines the critical leadership actions that support collaborative public service innovations, drawing on evidence from UK local government led partnerships. It concludes that success is more likely if leaders help the partnership to: build mutual trust; agree clear, well thought through, politically supported ambitions; invest time, resources and energy; galvanize managers and staff; make a long term commitment to achieving the objectives, learning, adapting and growing innovations together.     

Ambidextrous leadership,paradox and contingency: evidence from Angola

Abstract

The study departs from two assumptions. First, it considers that organizations, their leaders and the HRM function are inherently paradoxical and that, in that sense, dealing with paradox is a necessary component of the leadership process which requires ambidexterity capabilities. Second, it explores whether the paradoxes of leadership may manifest differently in different contexts. We explore the emergence of paradox in the leadership of Angolan organizations. Angola is an economy transitioning from a centrally planned to a market mode, and this makes it a rich site for understanding the specificities of ambidextrous paradoxical processes in an under-researched, ‘rest of the world’, context. The findings of our inductive study led to the emergence of four interrelated paradoxes and highlight the importance of ambidextrous paradoxical work as a HRM contingency.     

中国背景下变革型领导、组织承诺与离职意向关系研究

变革型领导(Transformational Leadership)是领导学研究的热点话题,在中国也已经累积了相当的成果。但变革型领导至今仍是以西方为背景的概念,在中国背景下的实证研究尚嫌不足。因此,本研究首先采用定性、定量结合的方法,对中国背景下的变革型领导量表进行修订和验证,通过信度分析和验证性因子分析(CFA)方法,证实修订后的量表具备足够的信度和效度。继而,本研究针对480名企业员工进行了大样本的调查,证实了变革型领导对员工的组织承诺有正向影响,对离职意向则有负向影响;而在变革型领导对离职意向的影响机制中,组织承诺更起到了中介变量的作用。     

包容型领导与员工工作重塑:一个跨层次研究

作为一种主动工作行为,工作重塑已经成为学者们探讨的热点话题。现有研究多聚焦于工作重塑产生的影响,而对其前因变量的实证研究十分有限。基于自我决定理论,本文探讨包容型领导对员工工作重塑的影响机制,考察基本心理需求在机制中的中介作用和不确定性规避的调节作用。以59个团队领导及371名员工为样本,本文采用多层线性模型进行数据分析和假设检验,结果表明:包容型领导对员工工作重塑具有显著正向影响;基本心理需求在包容型领导与工作重塑之间起到部分中介作用;不确定性规避在基本心理需求与员工工作重塑的关系中具有显著的负向调节作用。     

内控型人格、变革型领导与组织文化对员工心理资本的影响

心理资本是人力资源管理领域重要的新理论之一。鉴于当前研究聚焦于心理资本的影响效应,本文从内控型人格、变革型领导与组织文化三个层次对心理资本成因进行分析与检验。回归模型结果表明,内控型人格、领导魅力、支持型文化、创新型文化对员工的事务型心理资本有显著正向影响,领导的个性化关怀对下属事务型心理资本有负向效应;领导魅力、官僚型文化、创新型文化对员工的人际型心理资本有积极作用。     

Barriers to supply chain information integration: SMEs adrift of eLands

The literature extols the potential benefits of supply chain integration and the crucial role of integrated eBusiness to deliver those benefits. However, adoption of eBusiness in supply chains has been slower than expected, particularly in small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper reports findings of a longitudinal study of four supply chains in different sectors over a 4-year period. Specifically it examines the barriers to adoption of eBusiness technologies and therefore to achievement of integrated information in supply chains. Differences between firms in supply chains and between supply chains are examined. The study reveals disparity between existing and planned use of eBusiness by larger downstream firms compared to upstream SMEs. The SMEs are cautious, only planning to invest in eBusiness if dominant downstream customers force them; however, they do not appreciate the full benefits to be gained from eBusiness adoption. The downstream larger businesses are forging ahead with eBusiness in ‘eIsolation’ and are not providing supply chain leadership. They are creating eLands with SMEs adrift of them.