A firm’s core competitiveness results primarily from its ability to innovate. Knowledge sharing plays an important role in promoting sustained innovation. This research examines two factors that enable employee knowledge sharing. Using responses from a questionnaire that was distributed to professionals in a research and development (R&D) department of a Chinese commercial elevator firm, the in...

The main purpose of this study was to figure out employees’ attitudes toward the new performance appraisal program and to examine whether three different types of appraisal processes differentially affected job satisfaction and employee engagement. The second purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance appraisal reform, job satisfaction, and employee engagement...

PT Eastwind Mandiri Cangkiran is a manufacturing company that produces and exports furniture from forest products. This study aims to empirically examine the effect of situational leadership, knowledge sharing, job stress on employee performance at Cangkiran. Data was collected by interview, observation, literature study, distributing questionnaires. The sampling method used census model, namel...

An essential aspect of the balanced scorecard is the articulation of the links between nonfinancial measures such as employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction and financial measures of performance. However, there is little evidence documenting the link between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction, and their impact on financial performance. Using cross-sectional data on a sample...

Psychological Capital (PsyCap) construct is a core concept of positive psychology consisting of the positive psychological resources of self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience. Previous studies confirmed link of PsyCap with employee attitude, behavior, workplace outcomes and job performance. In today's competitive environment, it is a challenging task for all organizations to enhance the ...

We integrate psychological and socio-structural perspectives on empowerment by examining: a) the impact of actual structural empowerment initiatives (as opposed to perceptions of such empowering acts) aimed at enhancing employee influence over which tasks to perform (as opposed to how to perform them) on employee well-being and performance, b) the degree to which selfefficacy mediates these eff...

EAP is defined by the EAP Association of South Africa (2005:6) as a work site-based programme, designed to assist in the identification and resolution of productivity problems associated with employees impaired by personal concerns, but not limited to health, marital, family, financial, alcohol, drug, legal, emotional, stress, or other personal concerns which may adversely affect employee job p...

Purpose – This study aimed to determine the determinants of employee performance at Zainoel Abidin General Hospital, and how it affects this hospital. In addition, find out whether extra role can serve as a moderating variable on influence high-performance work practices performance. Design/methodology/approach The sampling technique used in is simple probability sampling. sample count 217, cal...

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations in accounting for upward-...