Theoretical debates in HRM, social exchange and high performing organisations

Author(s):  
Nicole Cvenkel
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL DUNG GADI ◽  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee

Employees are an organization’s main source of growth and success. It is important for an organization to establish and keep long-term relationships with their high performing employees (Gadi & Kee, 2018). Hence, it is necessary for organizations to identify the employees’ turnover intention (Mete & Sökmen, 2016; Abid & Butt, 2017).This article provides a review of HRM practices, workplace bullying and turnover intention. It is argued that both HRM practices and workplace bullying are two important conditions that influence employee’s turnover intention (Razzaghian & Ghani, 2014; Son, 2014). Drawing on social exchange theory, this article suggests that there is a significant relationship between HRM, workplace bullying and turnover intention. Therefore, this article proposes employee engagement could be a potential mediator between HRM practices, workplace bullying, and turnover intention. Suggestions and implications for future study on HRM, workplace bullying, and turnover intention are also suggested. Finally, the motive of the researchers in determining these models and relating them to the researchers’ intent is to provide a general view of what the management needs to know and expect and what are the various avenues available for future consideration to address the acute issues pertaining to workplace bullying, HRM practices, and turnover intention.


2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Urte Scholz ◽  
Rainer Hornung

Abstract. The main research areas of the Social and Health Psychology group at the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, are introduced. Exemplarily, three currently ongoing projects are described. The project ”Dyadic exchange processes in couples facing dementia” examines social exchanges in couples with the husband suffering from dementia and is based on Equity Theory. This project applies a multi-method approach by combining self-report with observational data. The ”Swiss Tobacco Monitoring System” (TMS) is a representative survey on smoking behaviour in Switzerland. Besides its survey character, the Swiss TMS also allows for testing psychological research questions on smoking with a representative sample. The project, ”Theory-based planning interventions for changing nutrition behaviour in overweight individuals”, elaborates on the concept of planning. More specifically, it is tested whether there is a critical amount of repetitions of a planning intervention (e.g., three or nine times) in order to ensure long-term effects.


Author(s):  
Bettina von Helversen ◽  
Stefan M. Herzog ◽  
Jörg Rieskamp

Judging other people is a common and important task. Every day professionals make decisions that affect the lives of other people when they diagnose medical conditions, grant parole, or hire new employees. To prevent discrimination, professional standards require that decision makers render accurate and unbiased judgments solely based on relevant information. Facial similarity to previously encountered persons can be a potential source of bias. Psychological research suggests that people only rely on similarity-based judgment strategies if the provided information does not allow them to make accurate rule-based judgments. Our study shows, however, that facial similarity to previously encountered persons influences judgment even in situations in which relevant information is available for making accurate rule-based judgments and where similarity is irrelevant for the task and relying on similarity is detrimental. In two experiments in an employment context we show that applicants who looked similar to high-performing former employees were judged as more suitable than applicants who looked similar to low-performing former employees. This similarity effect was found despite the fact that the participants used the relevant résumé information about the applicants by following a rule-based judgment strategy. These findings suggest that similarity-based and rule-based processes simultaneously underlie human judgment.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Jaussi ◽  
Michael Palanski ◽  
Walter Reichman
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