Wood, S., Ogbonnaya, C. (2018) High-Involvement Management, Economic Recession, Well-Being, and Organizational Performance. Journal of Management, 44 (8). pp. 3070-3095. ISSN 0149-2063. (doi:10.1177/0149206316659111) (KAR id:92867)
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Abstract
High-involvement management was introduced as a means of overcoming economic crises, but it has been argued that the inevitability of cost-cutting measures when organizations face such crises would undermine its efficacy. This article first presents theories of why tensions may exist between high-involvement management and actions typically taken by management during recessions, such as wage and employment freezes. It then reports research aimed at testing whether the performance effects of high-involvement management were lower in organizations where management took such actions to combat the post-2008 recession, due to their adverse effects on employees’ job satisfaction and well-being—and even whether high-involvement management still had a performance premium after the recession. Using data from Britain’s Workplace Employment Relations Survey of 2011, the research shows that both dimensions of high-involvement management—role- and organizational-involvement management—continued to be positively associated with economic performance as the economy came out of recession. Recessionary actions were negatively related to both employee job satisfaction and well-being, while job satisfaction mediated the relationship between role-involvement management and economic performance, which is consistent with mutual-gains theory. However, recessionary action reduced the positive effect that role-involvement management had on job satisfaction and well-being and thus may have reduced its positive performance effects. In the case of organizational-involvement management, it reduced the level of job dissatisfaction and ill-being, suggesting that it may provide workers with more information and greater certainty about the future.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/0149206316659111 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | high-involvement management, job autonomy, recessionary action, well-being, job satisfaction, organizational performance |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Leadership and Management |
Depositing User: | Chidi Ogbonnaya |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2022 10:02 UTC |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2022 12:04 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/92867 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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