An Institutional Perspective on Individual Work Well-Being: Evidence from China

Wei Li (), Jianxun Chen () and Hans Hendrischke ()
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Wei Li: The University of Sydney Business School
Jianxun Chen: University of International Business and Economics

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, vol. 132, issue 1, No 10, 187-218

Abstract: Abstract This paper evaluates how factors and values that are embedded in China’s changing institutional environment impact work well-being. Using firm level survey data, the paper examines how exogenous institutions—state ownership and individual traditionality—interact with firm level institutions—strategic human resource management (SHRM) and person-organisation fit (P-O fit) to influence workers’ job involvement. We find that state ownership weakens the effect of SHRM on workers’ job involvement while P-O fit does not. Individual traditionality on the other hand moderates the effects of SHRM and P-O fit on workers’ job involvement. Our study contributes to work well-being research in transitioning economies such as China and has consequences for labour market and SHRM policies.

Keywords: China; Work well-being; Job involvement; Institutions; State ownership; Traditionality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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