Employee portals are utilized by many companies to improve companies’ information exchange, communication, and employee collaboration, as well as to better support their business processes. Owing to limited IT budgets and the need to justify investments in employee portals, assessing the benefits of these is an important field in research and practice. Thus, the purpose of this study is to gain...

China is one of the major energy-consuming and carbon-emitting countries. Promotion of efficient energy use is crucial in reducing energy consumption and carbon emission. Under external pressure and realizing the importance of energy conservation, many firms have adopted measures to save energy. Such measures entail active employee participation. However, employees often lack motivation and thu...

Based on data from 1,357 Canadian private sector workplaces, this study found no support for the argument that formal employee participation is a universal “best practice.” However, it found considerable support for the contingency and configurational perspectives, as there were significant interactions between employee participation and business strategy, and between employee participation and...

Although most research on cynicism toward change (CTC) has been conceptualized at the individual level, we propose that CTC is better conceptualized as a multilevel phenomenon, acting as both an employee attitude and an organizational climate. We conducted a multilevel investigation of CTC in a field sample of 687 correctional officers in the 14 prisons in a state penal system. Consistent with ...

This paper illustrates the similarities between the problems of customer churn and employee turnover. An example of employee turnover prediction model leveraging classical machine learning techniques is developed. Model outputs are then discussed to design & test employee retention policies. This type of retention discussion is, to our knowledge, innovative and constitutes the main value of thi...

There is a growing concern about the relationship of servant leadership and employee loyalty recent years, but few are focusing on the intervening mechanisms between them. Especially in China, research on such mediating variables is nearly blank. In this paper, we make our attempt on detecting the role in such relationship by empirical studies through 186 samples using the structural equation m...

This article begins by discussing how the role of human resource management has changed in recent years, and the implications of this for human resource departments. Providing employees with the information they require about their employment relationship is then explored by investigating how information technology can improve the quality of this information flow. The role of employee self-serv...

1. Manager enters their assessment of employee’s performance in the form. o Section I rates each performance standard and adds comments as appropriate. o Section II (Optional) – rates and enters comments for each performance goal. o Section III – rates the employee’s overall performance. Enter comments/assessment of their overall performance. 2. Manager sends the performance appraisal with thei...

Conflict of interest statement. Kelong Han is an employee of Genentech and holds stock in F. Hoffmann – La Roche. Melanie Ren was an employee of Genentech at the time the manuscript was written. Wolfgang Wick has acted as a consultant for F. Hoffmann–La Roche, Eli Lilly (uncompensated), and MSD and has received research support from Apogenix, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, and MSD. Lauren Abr...

Previous research suggested that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is positively related to organization’s attractiveness to potential employees. This paper tries to explore the effective dimensions of CSR on employee engagement and the mediating factors that lay between the two constructs. The author proposes that CSR has a direct impact on employee engagement, and that perceived organizat...