Strategic Flexibility, Manager Personality, and Firm Performance: The Case of Indian Automobile Industry

Shalender, Kumar; Yadav, Rajesh Kumar

doi:10.1007/s40171-018-0204-x

Cited by 101 publications

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“…This finding corroborates earlier assertions that human resource management practices have to be flexible if the they are to enable desired business outcomes (Srivastava 2016) and that flexible work arrangements will positively influence job engagement (Richman et al 2008;Anderson and Kelliher 2009;Ugargol and Patrick 2018). Hitherto, flexibility in organizations has been investigated in the areas of supply chain management (Dey et al 2019), strategy formulation/implementation (Shalender and Yadav 2019), leadership process (Piansoongnern 2013), customer focus (Dutt and Chauhan 2019) and knowledge creation (Scaglione et al 2019). Flexibility, as an antecedent of job engagement, has been investigated by authors like Anderson and Kelliher (2009) and Ugargol and Patrick (2018).…”

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Influence of Employee Attributes, Work Context and Human Resource Management Practices on Employee Job Engagement

Oluwatayo

Adetoro

2020

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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Scholars have suggested that employee engagement depends on their personal attributes, as well as the work contexts and human resources management practices of organizations. Little study however exists in professional firm contexts. This study set out to investigate the influence of work context, employee attributes and human resource management practices on the job engagement of employees, taking samples from architectural firms, where employees are considered as core resources. Data for this survey were obtained with the use of questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression analysis. Moderate level of job engagement was found among the employees. The level of engagement was mostly predicted by the human resource practices and employees' personal attributes. In particular, feedback from principal and clear job description were found to be core human resource management practices that architectural firms can leverage to enhance employee job engagement. Flexible work practices like lunch arrangements, work hours and autonomy were found to also influence job engagement among the architects. This study fills the gap in the literature on the need to fully understand the concept of job engagement in the context of architectural professional service firms, where such study is sparse.

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Influence of Employee Attributes, Work Context and Human Resource Management Practices on Employee Job Engagement

Oluwatayo

Adetoro

2020

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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“…In other words, as the policy makers and social marketers expects people to change their initial behaviours due to the pandemic, policy makers and social marketers need to be adaptive as well in designing the social policy and campaign to promote appropriate change in people's behaviours (i.e. compliance to COVID-19 measures) by utilizing different social marketing communication strategies according to gender characteristics of the individuals (Sushil 2014;Elias 2019;Shalender and Yadav 2019;Shukla et al 2019).…”

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Explaining the Voluntary Compliance to COVID-19 Measures: An Extrapolation on the Gender Perspective

Paramita

Rostiani

Winahjoe

et al. 2021

Glob J Flex Syst Manag

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The discourse of gender amidst the COVID-19 pandemic had been a big fuss. Amongst the discussions is the gender-related responses to COVID-19 that generally assume females to better respond to COVID-19 than males. Despite the converging assumptions, previous studies tend to conceptualize gender as binary biological sex, and consequently, there is little understanding of the gender-COVID-19 measures compliance relationship. By taking gender as a multidimensional perspective, this research aims to examine the relationship between sex, gender psychology, and gender-role with voluntary compliance to COVID-19 measures as well as the moderating role of situational aspects that can activate individuals' responses toward COVID-19. A survey had been conducted in Indonesia, as Indonesia represents a country with relaxed COVID-19 restrictions making voluntary compliance is deemed important. Consistent with our predictions and previous studies, females tend to better comply with COVID-19 when gender is treated as dichotomous sex. However, a closer look at the gender dimensions revealed that gender psychology (feminine vs masculine) and gender-role (traditional vs egalitarian) provide a better explanation of the specific compliance behaviour toward COVID-19 measures. Interestingly, although situational pathogen avoidance (SPA) directly leads to adherence to several compliance behaviours, it does not moderate the four compliance behaviour of COVID-19 measures. Theoretical and practical contributions are further discussed.

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“…Several scholars have argued that technical knowledge of the affiliated firm (Ranft & Lord, 2000) can enhance performance in cross‐border deals. Firm performance in the global market is influenced by corporate governance (Martin & McConnell, 1991; Parrino & Harris, 1999; Shalender & Yadav, 2019), prior experience (Han et al, 2018), cultural differences, investment decisions, and information disclosure (Ahammad et al, 2016; Inkpen, 2000; (Morosini, Shane, & Singh, 1998). For example, organizations may face disputes between employees because of inequality in corporate culture (Gupta & Gupta, 2019) and national culture (Appiah‐Adu & Blankson, 1998; Ojala & Tyrväinen, 2007; Weber, 1996).…”

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Critical success factors determining performance of cross‐border acquisition: Evidence from the African telecom market

Dhir

Rajan

Ongsakul

et al. 2020

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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This study investigates the factors affecting Bharti Airtel's cross-border postacquisition performance in an African market. This study describes the relationships among various factors such as technical capability, affiliated firm's absorptive capacity, and organizational learning capabilities, which determine the successful operations of the Zain acquisition deal in South Africa. This paper adopts a qualitative approach to identify factors that influence the postacquisition performance. Seven factors are identified based on the literature. Consequently, it has become a necessity to encapsulate these factors in suitable proportions. In this study, we have developed a total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) to analyze the postacquisition performance of Bharti Airtel in South Africa. Our research has highlighted six dynamic factors (organizational learning capability, knowledge management, technology capability, technology relatedness, acquirer's absorptive capacity, and national culture difference) that affect the firm's postacquisition performance. The interpretive structural model (ISM) and total interpretive structural model for postacquisition performance are built-up. The developed TISM will support academics and practitioners to develop their understanding of acquisition performance of parent companies in the context of telecom business in the South African market.

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Strategic Flexibility, Manager Personality, and Firm Performance: The Case of Indian Automobile Industry

Cited by 101 publications

References 121 publications

Influence of Employee Attributes, Work Context and Human Resource Management Practices on Employee Job Engagement

Influence of Employee Attributes, Work Context and Human Resource Management Practices on Employee Job Engagement

Explaining the Voluntary Compliance to COVID-19 Measures: An Extrapolation on the Gender Perspective

Critical success factors determining performance of cross‐border acquisition: Evidence from the African telecom market

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