“…Specifically, our first result indicates clear support for the assumption that employee-manager perceptual differences regarding HR policies are related to managers' perception of performance (i.e., path c), which is consistent with most of the literature (Huselid, 1995;MacDuffie, 1995;Guest, 1997;Wright & Nishii, 2006;Savaneviciene & Stankeviciute, 2012a;Hutchinson, 2013;Sanders, Shipton, & Gomes, 2014). Additionally, the study revealed an optimistic and significant relationship between employees' and managers' perceptual differences regarding HR policies and employees' work engagement (i.e., path a), which is the same for employees' work engagement and managers' perception of performance (i.e., path b), thus, supporting part of the condition of mediation suggested by Barron and Kenny (1986).…”