Journal ArticleDOI
Antecedents and Outcomes of Organizational Support for Development: The Critical Role of Career Opportunities
TLDR
This study found that participation in training classes, leader-member exchange, and career mentoring were each positively related to employees' perceptions of organizational support for development and found support for the moderator hypotheses.Abstract:
This study examines antecedents and behavioral outcomes of employees' perceptions of organizational support for development. We first propose that employees' past participation in formal developmental activities and experience with developmental relationships positively relate to their perceptions of organizational support for development. We then propose that perceived career opportunity within the organization moderates the relationship between organizational support for development and employee performance and turnover. Using a sample of 264 exempt-level employees and their supervisors, we found that participation in training classes, leader-member exchange, and career mentoring were each positively related to employees' perceptions of organizational support for development. We also found support for the moderator hypotheses. Specifically, development support positively related to job performance, but only when perceived career opportunity within the organization was high. Further, development support was associated with reduced voluntary turnover when perceived career opportunity was high, but it was associated with increased turnover when perceived career opportunity was low. Our study demonstrates that social exchange and career motivation theory work together to explain when and how employees' perceptions of organizational support for development relate to turnover and job performance.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Is guanxi always good for employee self-development in China? Examining non-linear and moderated relationships
Shuang Ren,Doren Chadee +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how guanxi, a relational phenomenon unique to traditional Chinese culture, influences employee self-development and found an inverted U-shaped relationship between Guanxi and ESD.
Journal ArticleDOI
Developmental Climate: A Cross-level Analysis of Voluntary Turnover and Job Performance.
TL;DR: Shared perceptions of developmental climate were significantly and positively related to all three individual work attitudes and both organizational commitment and perceived competence were significant mediators of the positive relationship between shared perceptions ofdevelopmental climate and voluntary turnover.
Journal ArticleDOI
Perceived investment in employee development and taking charge
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether the relationship between perceived investment in employee development and taking charge is moderated by perceived job autonomy and find a positive relationship between PIED and both self-reported and manager-rated taking charge only for employees who perceived high levels of job autonomy.
Journal ArticleDOI
Training and development in small professional services firms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether participation in training and development (T&D) events is associated with employees' affective commitment and propensity to enact innovative behaviours in small professional services firms.
Journal ArticleDOI
Measuring the Psychological Distance between an Organization and Its Members—The Construction and Validation of a New Scale
Hong Chen,Shanshan Li +1 more
TL;DR: An employee-organization psychological distance (EOPD) scale is developed that exhibited acceptable reliability and validity using confirmatory factor analysis and may establish a foundation for future research on the measurement of psychological relationships between employees and organizations.
References
More filters
Book
Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: In this article, the Mathematical Basis for Multiple Regression/Correlation and Identification of the Inverse Matrix Elements is presented. But it does not address the problem of missing data.
Book
Exchange and Power in Social Life
TL;DR: In a seminal work as discussed by the authors, Peter M. Blau used concepts of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power to examine social life and to derive the more complex processes in social structure from the simpler ones.
Journal ArticleDOI
The norm of reciprocity: a preliminary statement *
TL;DR: The notion of complementarity and reciprocity in functional theory is explored in this article, enabling a reanalysis of the concepts of "survival" and "exploitation" and the need to distinguish between complementarity, reciprocity, and the generalized moral norm of reciprocity.
Journal ArticleDOI
Perceived organizational support.
TL;DR: In this paper, the coherence des croyances des employes dans l'implication de l'organisation a son egard et le role d'un tel soutien organisationnel ainsi que l'ideologie d'echange sur l'absenteisme is discussed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Perceived organizational support: A review of the literature.
Linda Rhoades,Robert Eisenberger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed more than 70 studies concerning employees' general belief that their work organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being (perceived organizational support; POS) and indicated that 3 major categories of beneficial treatment received by employees were associated with POS.