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

Authors: Wei Li, Jianxun Chen, Hans Hendrischke

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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.

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Title: An Institutional Perspective on Individual Work Well-Being: Evidence from China
Authors: Wei Li
Jianxun Chen
Hans Hendrischke
Publication date: 21-05-2016
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Social Indicators Research / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1342-1

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