A study on high-performance work systems (HPWS) has shown that there may be a gap in the relationship between HPWS and … employee work performance. The reasons that are implied within such a relationship have, however, rarely been studied. Data …, we theorized that employee ambidexterity mediates the relationship between HPWS and employee work performance. Using …

instance, high-performance ratings, while negative tactics lead to the opposite. However, categorizing impression management … tactics strongly affect contextual performance, followed by task and adaptive performance. In particular, our research … findings indicate that self-promotion tactics hurt adaptive performance, while ingratiation tactics positively affect task …