Human Resource Management
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CHEN, Tingting
KIM, Tae-Yeol
LIANG, Yongyi
What Really Sparks Employee Creativity?
Creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for creativity can encourage employees to innovate, but their complex relationship has long puzzled researchers. Thanks to HKUST’s Yaping Gong and colleagues, we now know more about how these factors influence each other to generate creativity. Their findings will help organizations motivate and support ... Read More
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VENKATESH, Viswanath
SPOHRER, Kai
CHAN, Frank K Y
ARORA, Ankur
HOEHLE, Hartmut
VENKATRAMAN, Srinivasan
Enhancing Developer Satisfaction in Agile Development Teams
Does equality really lead to happiness in information systems development (ISD) teams? To date, research on leadership in ISD teams has assumed that all developers are treated equally by their team leader, ignoring the power of differentiated leader–member exchange (LMX) to enhance team and project outcomes. Filling this important research gap, James Y. L ... Read More
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Navigating Ideological Disagreements at Work
Building trust is key to successful workplace relationships. However, in an age of great political divide, people are often hesitant to trust others with differing ideologies. This creates a problem for organizations whose employees need to collaborate to make decisions and complete tasks. Given this issue, researchers in this study (Hagmann et al., 2024) ... Read More
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JEONG, Inseong
ZHONG, Bijuan
How Mindset and Goal Orientation Influence Creativity in a Crisis
Employee creativity is vital for organizational success, so sustaining it during a crisis—such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic—is essential. In a study with important implications for how organizations should react to crises to maintain employee creativity, HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and two colleagues show that an employee’s mindset and goal orientation ... Read More
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MITHAS, Sunil
LIU, Che-Wei
HAN, Kunsoo
Should Firms Hire Foreign or Domestic Workers? Cross-Border Employment and Firm Profitability
Policymakers are deeply concerned about the impact of hiring workers from different locations on firm profitability and the substitution or complementarity of domestic and foreign workers. But assuming that these workers are interchangeable is a myth that may not lead to productive directives and policies for everyone involved. Despite the critical nature of ... Read More
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CUYPERS, Ilya R.P.
PATEL, Charmi
ERTUG, Gokhan
CUYPERS, Youtha
International Business Strategies for Firms
Over the past few decades, a substantial body of work has developed from the study of international issues relating to top management teams, particularly in relation to how firms formulate international strategies, how and where firms tend to grow their international businesses, and the performance outcomes of the choices made by them. This review provides a ... Read More
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SCHAUBROECK, John
PENG. Ann C.
HANNAH, Sean T.
CIANCI, Anna M.
Nowadays, the high demand on companies for innovation and adaptability has meant that employees are increasingly being asked to take the initiative more often and demonstrate leadership qualities, even if being a leader was not part of the original job description. However, while this phenomenon has led scholars to look at the aspects that lead people not in ... Read More
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ZHANG, Xiao
XIE, Luqun
CHENG, Li
Extending Market Opportunities and Resources: An International Perspective
Dynamic capability refers to an organization’s ability to purposefully create, extend, or modify its resource base. Within this framework, core competencies must be used to modify short-term competitive positions with the aim of building a longer-term competitive advantage. In the context of multinational enterprises (MNEs) that produce or deliver services ... Read More
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LEE, Byron Y.
KIM, Tae-Yeol
ZHENG, Xiaoming
LIU, Xin
Impact of Employee Well-being Human Resource Attribution on External and Internal Job Changes
Employees may advance their career by achieving internal job changes (i.e., changes in jobs within an organization) and external job changes (i.e., changes in jobs across organizational boundaries), and both changes may render different implications for the organization and the employee. To fill the gap in prior careers research, this study examines the ... Read More
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LIN, Weipeng
ZHANG, Qi
Benevolent Leadership Promotes Employee Creativity
The success of an organization is largely dependent on the effectiveness of the leadership process, rendering the study of leadership essential. Virtuous leader behavior in form of benevolent leadership, referring to leaders’ individualized, holistic concern for both subordinates’ work and non-work domains, has long been considered to have beneficial impacts ... Read More
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