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    Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources: Volume 59, Issue 3

    355-531
    July 2021
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  • Page: 355
  • First Published: 14 July 2021

Special Issue - Human Resource Management In China

Human resource management in China: what are the key issues confronting organizations and how can research help?

Chenhui Zhao,  Fang Lee Cooke,  Zhen Wang, 
  • Pages: 357-373
  • First Published: 27 April 2021

Between culture and satisfaction: mediating roles of renqing perception and rules perception

Han Ren,  Charles Weizheng Chen,  Yuling Chen, 
  • Pages: 374-399
  • First Published: 15 March 2020
Key points

  1. This paper defines two new constructs termed as renqing perception and rules perception.
  2. Perceived clan culture and hierarchy culture will positively relate to renqing perception and rules perception, respectively.
  3. Renqing perception and rules perception serve as the mediators between perceived organizational culture and job satisfaction.

Supervisor-subordinate guanxi and employee thriving at work: the key role of relation-generated resources

Xiaoyu Guan,  Stephen Frenkel, 
  • Pages: 400-419
  • First Published: 28 August 2020
Key points

  1. Supervisor-subordinate guanxi generates resources for subordinates in the workplace.
  2. The resources include knowledge, social relationships and meaningful work.
  3. These resources lead to individuals’ positive experience of thriving.

Social media impacts the relation between interpersonal conflict and job performance

Feng Jiang,  Su Lu,  Xiji Zhu,  Xin Song, 
  • Pages: 420-441
  • First Published: 18 October 2019
Key points

  1. Wechat use is found to mediate the relationship between interpersonal conflict and job performance.
  2. A stronger mediational path occurs for employees who fail to find relatedness need satisfaction.
  3. Emotional social support exacerbates the negative association between interpersonal conflict and job performance.
  4. A significant overall mediational path occurs regardless of the degree of emotional social support.

Overwork, job embeddedness and turnover intention among Chinese knowledge workers

Hongwei Huang,  Xue Xia,  Wenxi Zhao,  Xiaoqing Pan,  Xiaoqiang Zhou, 
  • Pages: 442-459
  • First Published: 09 September 2020
Key points

  1. There is a positive correlation between the overwork of knowledge workers and their turnover intentions.
  2. There is a negative correlation between overwork and knowledge workers’ job embeddedness, job embeddedness and turnover intention.
  3. Job embeddedness may play a mediating role between the overwork of knowledge workers and their turnover intentions.

Special Issue - Human Resource Management in China

Employment status and counterproductive work behaviour: a chain mediating effect in the Chinese context

Shanshi Liu,  Chuanyan Qin,  Xiaolang Liu,  Wenzhu Lu, 
  • Pages: 460-481
  • First Published: 28 October 2020

Regular Articles

Citizenship pressure and job performance: roles of citizenship fatigue and continuance commitment

Dirk De Clercq,  Aamir Suhail,  Muhammad Umer Azeem,  Inam Ul Haq, 
  • Pages: 482-505
  • First Published: 19 September 2019
Key points

  1. Citizenship fatigue mediates the relationship between citizenship pressure and job performance.
  2. The indirect relationship between citizenship pressure and job performance, through citizenship fatigue, is weaker at higher levels of continuance commitment.
  3. Organizations should take care not to force employees into activities that extend formal job descriptions.
  4. Organizations should be proactive in monitoring whether expectations about taking on additional responsibilities become excessive.
  5. Organizations can reduce the hardships of citizenship pressure by making it costly to leave.

No place like home? Self-initiated expatriates in their ancestral homeland

Christopher Richardson,  Kim Hwa Ng, 
  • Pages: 506-528
  • First Published: 10 September 2019

Book Review

The succession pipeline: How to get the talent you need when you need it

John Watt, 
  • Pages: 529-531
  • First Published: 20 September 2019