Effect of Employee Oriented Human Resource Management Practices on Counterproductive Work Behaviors

Zelalem Gebretsadik Estifo, Luo Fan and Naveed Ahmad Faraz
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Zelalem Gebretsadik Estifo: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China
Luo Fan: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China
Naveed Ahmad Faraz: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China

International Journal of Innovation and Economic Development, 2019, vol. 5, issue 1, 23-41

Abstract: This research investigated the link between employee-orientated human resource management (EOHRM) counterproductive work behaviors targeted at individual members and organization in Ethiopia. Relaying on social exchange theory, organizational support theory, signaling theory, and relevant literature we examined how employee-oriented HRM practice affects counterproductive work behaviors by using perceived organizational support as a mediator. Data had been obtained from 555 workers and 150 supervisors from eight companies in Ethiopia. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) methods via SmartPLS has been used to determine the hypothesized links pertaining to employee-oriented HRM and counterproductive work behavior directed towards individual members and the organization. Final results confirmed that perceived organizational support fully mediated the relationship between employee-oriented HRM and counterproductive work behaviors. The impact of employee-oriented HRM on counterproductive work behavior-organizational via perceived organizational support were stronger than the impact of employee-oriented HRM on counterproductive work behavior – individual (interpersonal). The findings suggest that organizations may minimize (reduce) employees’ counterproductive work behavior by putting into action employee-oriented HRM practices that would uplift perceived organizational support that finally prevents the tendency to act against the organization and its members.

Keywords: Employee-oriented human resource management; perceived organizational support; counterproductive work behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.18775/ijied.1849-7551-7020.2015.52.2002

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