Purpose – To provide a further examination into the explanatory factors of employees' mobility for organizations wishing to improve performance by keeping right employees judging from their goal orientation and organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach – The multivariate...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to gain more insight in how line managers react to power use of superiors and subordinates in conflict situations. Design/methodology/approach – The data was collected from 488 line managers; the majority of these managers worked in business services...

Purpose – This study aims to examine perceptions of politics among public sector employees as a possible mediator between the supervisor's leadership style and formal and informal aspects of employees' performance (Organizational Citizenship Behavior – OCB). Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – This paper aims to gain insight into the psychological dynamics of work motivation; specific work values are related to foci and dimensions of commitment to understand how different values influence people's commitments. Design/methodology/approach – A survey from a hospital ( n...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to empirically examine the relationships between organizational support, affective commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) for expatriates. Design/methodology/approach – Data from 162 expatriates, working in 37 subsidiaries of...

Purpose – This paper aims to advance the debate regarding the use of training evaluation tools, chiefly the Kirkpatrick model, in reaction to minimal use of the tools reported in the literature and the economic changes that have characterised the industrialised world in the past 20 years....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of low quality performance appraisals (PA) on three human resource management outcomes (job satisfaction, organisational commitment and intention to quit). Design/methodology/approach – Using data from 2,336 public sector employees...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to challenge the person‐related aspect of the stereotype that older employees are unmotivated. In an overall model, it seeks to examine how age, perceived age discrimination, and perceived organizational support relate to each other and how they affect the...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate associations between self‐rated employability (SRE) and affective organizational commitment and performance to probe the so‐called management paradox, namely the idea that SRE relates to performance, but also to reduced commitment. SRE concerns the...