Why do you treat me in such ways? An attachment examination on supervisors’ early family environment and subordinates’ responses

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiheng Li ◽  
Yihua Zhang ◽  
Mingyu Zhang ◽  
Wen Wu ◽  
Wenbing Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Working Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Harmonious Family ◽  
Early Family ◽  
And Task

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to fill important gaps by using the attachment theory and examining the effects of supervisors’ early family environment on their behaviors toward subordinates and subordinates’ responses. Design/methodology/approach The authors used samples of 334 supervisor–subordinate pairs from a manufacturing company. Findings The study finds that supervisors’ harmonious family environment has a positive influence on subordinates’ responses (job satisfaction, work-to-family enrichment and task performance) through the effect of supervisors’ positive working model and caregiving behavior. On the contrast, supervisors’ conflicting family environment has a negative influence on subordinates’ responses through the effect of supervisors’ negative working model and aggressive behavior. Originality/value Existing studies mainly explore the influence of organizational environment on supervisors’ treatment of their subordinates. However, few have examined the relationship between supervisors’ early family environment and their treatment of their subordinates.

scholarly journals Expatriates’ withdrawal intentions

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1852-1869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Helena Pinto ◽  
Carlos Cabral Cardoso ◽  
William B. Werther Jr
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Culture Characteristics ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of perceived home and destination organizational culture characteristics and general satisfaction with the assignment as antecedents of expatriates’ withdrawal intentions. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a web survey of an international sample of expatriates with a broad representation of industries, organizations and countries of origin and destination. Findings The results indicate that home and destination organizational cultures affect expatriates’ withdrawal intentions, after controlling for demographics and national cultural differences, namely: home organizational culture has a stronger influence on withdrawal intentions from the organization, while host organizational culture affects withdrawal intentions from the assignment. Further, the relationship between host organizational culture and expatriates’ intentions to withdraw from the assignment is mediated by expatriates’ satisfaction with the assignment. Evidence was also found supporting a stronger and negative influence of the goal orientation dimension of organizational culture, thus suggesting that a collective orientation toward common business goals (i.e. solidarity) may help retain expatriates. Originality/value This study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by exploring the influence of organizational culture on expatriates’ withdrawal intentions, and the mediating role of expatriates’ satisfaction with the assignment, on that relationship.

How HR managers of incubators can be more effective: consider the relationships among entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 285-290
Author(s):  
Subrata Chakrabarty
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task ◽  
The Ideal

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how human resource (HR) managers of incubators can be more effective by applying Relationship focused theory, wherein the HR managers consider the forms of relationships among entrepreneurs. For helping create successful startups, HR managers of incubators can analyze and govern the practice of entrepreneurial action using a relationship-focused (rather than an individual-focused) approach. Design/methodology/approach A fourfold typology of relationships is used to explain the utility of relationships for practicing entrepreneurial work in an incubator. HR managers of incubators should consider the forms of relationships among the entrepreneurs that they oversee within incubators. Findings Social and task antecedents determine the ideal relationship between budding entrepreneurs, and incubator climate restrains the link between relationships and entrepreneurial outcomes. Originality/value Relationship-focused theory is used to explain the manner in which entrepreneurial action can be organized among budding entrepreneurs within incubators. The focus stays on the ‘relationship’ between budding entrepreneurs housed within incubators.

scholarly journals Effects of team unlearning on employee creativity

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 531-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto Matsuo
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Although unlearning is considered an essential step for creativity, little is known about the relationship between team unlearning and employee creativity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of individual reflection between team unlearning and employee creativity. Design/methodology/approach The research model was tested using multisource survey data from 164 employees in 28 teams at a manufacturing firm and a service firm. Findings The results of the multilevel analyses indicated that team unlearning had a positive influence on supervisor-rated employee creativity, fully mediated by individual reflection. Practical implications It should be noted that employee creativity is not automatically enhanced through team unlearning. Managers should encourage members to reflect on their work practices following team-unlearning exercises for the purpose of enhancing their creativity. Originality/value The findings contribute to the existing literature by demonstrating that reflective practices play significant roles in linking team unlearning with employee creativity. This study explored preceding literature examining employee creativity in terms of the unlearning process.

How ordinary returnees and foreigners drive firms’ exports?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Hu ◽  
Jizhen Li ◽  
Zhanming Jin
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Substitution Effects ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of ordinary returnee and foreign employees in firm export performance, whose impacts have been overseen in prior research. This study also explores whether returnee and foreign employees function as substitutes or complements, and simultaneously considers the impacts of contextual factors on the relationship between returnee (foreign) employees and firm export performance.Design/methodology/approachUsing panel data of Beijing’s Zhongguancun Science Park manufacturing firms over a seven-year period, from 2009 to 2015, the paper applies panel Tobit regression to deal with the left-censoring dependent variable.FindingsThis paper finds the number of returnee and foreign employees has significantly positive influence in promoting firm export performance; however, substitution effects exist between them. In addition, the positive effects of returnee and foreign employees on firm export performance are conditional. For foreign employees, the presence of corporate president with international background and firm imports will weaken their positive impacts. In terms of returnee employees, their positive influence proves not to be significantly reduced by corporate president’s international background but weakened by firm imports.Originality/valuePrevious research only highlights returnee entrepreneurs’ and top managers’ positive influence on firm export performance. However, with the development of emerging countries, for instance, China in this paper, ordinary returnee and foreign employees are playing more and more critical roles in firms’ internationalization process. This paper responds to the practical needs to focus on ordinary returnee and foreign employees.

Creditworthiness and access to finance: a study of SMEs in the Malaysian manufacturing industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaista Wasiuzzaman ◽  
Nabila Nurdin ◽  
Aznur Hajar Abdullah ◽  
Gowrie Vinayan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically assess the relationship between the dimensions of creditworthiness and access to finance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia, with creditworthiness as the mediating variable. The lack of empirical research on the relationship between creditworthiness and access to finance forms the motivation of this study. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaires covering various characteristics of the firms, their access to finance and creditworthiness were distributed to a total of 456 SMEs in the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor region for this purpose. A total of 158 responses were returned, of which 145 were usable responses and the relationships are tested using SEM-PLS. Findings This study finds that an SME and its owner’s character have significant influences on access to finance. An SME’s condition and its ability to provide high quality collateral are found to be highly significant in influencing its access to finance. Capacity is significant but its significance is low, while capital is insignificant. Creditworthiness has a significant positive influence on access to finance. Originality/value This study contributes to the important yet under-researched issue of access to finance for SMEs. It highlights the issue of character of applicant as an important dimension of creditworthiness that can significantly influence access to finance for SMEs.

Advertising and promotions budgeting and the role of risk

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 1457-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas West ◽  
Gerard P. Prendergast
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Risk Process ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advertising And Promotion ◽  
And Task

PurposeThis study aims to look at the conventional wisdom with regards to budgeting methods, processes, and sophistication in light of recent macro work relating budgetary approaches to risk‐taking.Design/methodology/approachBased on a survey of UK advertisers and personal interviews, current advertising and promotions budgeting methods and processes are summarized. A series of hypotheses relating risk, process and experience to advertising and promotions budgeting sophistication were tested.FindingsUK advertisers were found to use a variety of budgeting methods (two methods on average per company). Judgmental methods dominate, especially the “what is affordable” method, but at the same time more sophisticated methods like objective and task and measurement techniques (in particular return on investment) were solidly represented. The relationship between budgeting sophistication and risk was investigated, the premise being that risk and budgeting sophistication are inversely related, as well as budgetary processes and marketing experience.Research limitations/implicationsConsiderable insight is provided into the methods and processes being used. It is concluded that the explanation as to why firms use sophisticated or unsophisticated methods for setting their advertising and promotion budgets is largely related to organizational culture.Originality/valueJust over 1.5 percent of the UK's gross domestic product is spent on advertising and promotions (£19 billion). The study suggested that the primary reason for the lack of consensus on budgetary sophistication is that stakeholders involved with budgeting are far less concerned with specific methods than dealing with cultural norms, personalities, access to supporting data and policies and practices.

The relationship between food neophobia, domain-specific innovativeness, and food festival revisit intentions

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (6) ◽  
pp. 1849-1868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valsaraj Payini ◽  
Badrinarayan Srirangam Ramaprasad ◽  
Jyothi Mallya ◽  
Megha Sanil ◽  
Vidya Patwardhan
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Food Neophobia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Revisit Intentions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of two personality traits (i.e. food neophobia (FN) and domain-specific innovativeness (DSI)) on revisit intentions of consumers in the food festival context. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a FN scale, DSI scale and food festival revisit intention scale to capture the study constructs. Furthermore, data were collected from 265 food festival attendees in the town of Udupi (State of Karnataka, India). Furthermore, the study adopted structural equating modeling to investigate the relationship between the three study constructs. Findings The findings of this study reveals that DSI seems to exercise significant positive influence on consumers revisit intentions for the food festival. On the contrary, FN seems to exercise a negative influence on consumers revisit intentions. This relation, however, is found to be non-significant. Practical implications The findings of this study are expected to help food festival event managers, organizers and practitioners outline and delineate marketing strategies so as to increase the revisit intentions of consumers for the food festivals. Originality/value FN and DSI have been extensively studied in the context of consumers’ food consumption and related behaviors. On the contrary, majority of the studies that relate to festival revisit intentions situate consumers’ experiential values and satisfaction with attributes of the festival itself (e.g. location, affordability, quality of food, infrastructure, venue ambiance, service quality, entertainment avenues, timing and duration and size of the festival) as key precursors to their revisit propensity. This research endeavor, however, attempts to investigate whether, notwithstanding other food festival attributes, personality traits of individuals (i.e. FN and DSI) exercise any influence on food festival revisit intentions.

scholarly journals Perceived understanding of supply chain integration, communication and teamwork competency in the global manufacturing companies

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yudi Fernando ◽  
Puspita Wulansari
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Manufacturing ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
And Task

PurposeThis study empirically examines a model that describes the direct path from perceived understanding of supply chain integration (PUSCI) to perceived understanding of supply chain responsiveness (PUSCR) to leverage supply chain manager's communication and teamwork competencies. This study also examines whether knowledge and task skill and proficiency mediate the relationship between PUSCI and PUSCR to improve the communication and teamwork competency of a supply chain manager.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected using a survey questionnaire that was mailed to the 413 supply chain managers of global manufacturing companies in Indonesia.FindingsThe result from model testing shows that PUSCR significantly and positively affected the communication and teamwork competency of supply chain manager and knowledge, task skill and proficiency as mediating variables improved communication and teamwork competency. The results found that PUSCI was related to supply chain manager's competency.Practical implicationsSupply chain managers are advised to focus on PUSCI and consistently improve effective communication and teamwork competency.Originality/valueThis study will extend the literature by utilizing the competency-based theory to investigate the perceived understanding and communication capabilities of supply chain managers.

Is too much inclusive leadership a good thing? An examination of curvilinear relationship between inclusive leadership and employees’ task performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 882-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Xiaotao ◽  
Xiaoling Yang ◽  
Ismael Diaz ◽  
Mingchuan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Inclusive Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the inclusive leadership’s too-much-of-a-good-thing effect (TMGT effect) and illustrate the possibility of the potential drawbacks of inclusive leadership. Design/methodology/approach In total, 191 questionnaires were valid and used in the study. Employee participants were asked to report their direct supervisor’s inclusive leadership. Employees’ direct supervisors were asked to rate employees’ task performance to minimize common method variance. The authors use regression analysis to test the hypothesis. Findings An inverted U-shape characterizes the relationship between inclusive leadership and subordinates’ task performance. Specifically, employees’ task performance is low when the supervisor’s inclusive leadership is low; task performance increases when inclusive leadership is from low to moderate levels, and task performance decreases when inclusive leadership is from moderate to high levels. Originality/value The study sheds light on inclusive leadership, especially the inclusive leadership in Chinese context. In addition, this finding is important as it investigates the inclusion’s TMGT effect which is rare in organizational research, and the findings also provide additional evidence of TMGT effect in management fields.

How fringe cyclone experience affects predictions of damage severity

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Scovell ◽  
Connar McShane ◽  
Anne Swinbourne ◽  
Daniel Smith
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Question Survey

PurposeThis paper aims to understand how experience with the fringe effects of a cyclone influences perception of cyclone severity. Understanding how certain types of experience influences risk perception should help to clarify why there is an unclear link between experience and risk perception within the existing literature.Design/methodology/approachA total of 155 respondents with fringe cyclone experience were recruited to fill in a closed-ended question survey. The survey was designed to assess perceptions of a previous cyclone and future cyclone severity.FindingsMost respondents who had experienced the fringe effects of a cyclone overestimated the wind speed in their location. Respondents who overestimated previous cyclone wind speed also predicted less damage from future Category 5 cyclones.Research limitations/implicationsThis research indicates that overestimating the severity of past cyclones can have a detrimental effect on how people predict damage due to high category cyclones.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that people with fringe cyclone experience need additional information to help reshape their perceptions of cyclone severity.Originality/valueThis paper provides a unique perspective on the relationship between experience and risk perception by demonstrating that experience on the fringe of a cyclone has a negative influence on risk perception.

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