Chapters authored
HRM Systems Effects as a Basis for Strategic HR Planning
The chapter illustrates how misalignment of Human Resource Management System (HRMS) creates risks of reduction in organizational performance and well-being of employees. The chapter starts with the analysis of reasons and consequences for choosing particular HRMS by firms and description of criterions to differentiate between the key alternatives: high-productivity, high-commitment and high-involvement-based HRMS. Then it illustrates possible options within an additive approach, which allows reproducing wider variety of HRMS, aiming at identical for organization HR strategy. It also shows how additive approach can intensify positive sides and mitigate the drawbacks of each HRMS in accordance with the organizational health concept. The final part illustrates how to deal with the situation when the most suitable HRMS is not available due to its lower legitimacy, suggesting models with alternative options, or applying additive approach.
Part of the book: Human Resource Planning for the 21st Century
Inclusion of Home-Centred Women
Firms are highly interested in better inclusion of women with childcare commitments, especially for leadership positions, as reward for higher work groups’ gender diversity is valuable. Gender diversity became topical issue in corporate social responsibility of companies. However, many firms report that gender diversity is stalled, due to conflicting stereotypes about social roles of employees. Hakim’s influential preference theory suggests explanations of how women choose between productive and reproductive work. According to it, there are three types of employed women: home-centred, work-centred and adaptive workers, who combine both. Three options for preference assume three alternative frames of reference. Inclusion-related initiatives aim to reshape such frames by addressing employees’ identity work through readjusting managerially inspired discourses. Current research narrows the focus to the most vulnerable of them – home-centred women. We referred to responses of 721 mothers with previous working experience, from the biggest cities in Russia to find answers to the following questions: what affects home-centred women in their decision to return to the same employer after the maternity leave and what causes them to quit. We enriched empirical analysis with a theoretical review of initiatives helping to readjust corresponding stereotypes.
Part of the book: Corporate Social Responsibility
Role of Spillover between Work and Family in Employees’ Wellbeing: Managerial Perspective on Active Coping Strategies
This research contributes to the field of diversity and inclusion by analyzing how employers can assist women in shaping their career trajectories and strategies in relation to their additional family commitments. The study utilized a sample of 204 participants collected during the COVID-19 pandemic when the boundaries between work and family were blurred for many women. Existing established scales were used, and the reliability and validity of these scales were assessed in the selected context using exploratory factor analysis. OLS regression analysis followed by Welch ANOVA allowed to test research hypotheses. The findings confirmed the high role of negative spillover between work and family domains in employee’s well-being, while taking parental leave, distant work and attitude to COVID-19 were insignificant in this relationship. This might lead to employees’ withdrawal from the labor market. However, active coping strategies can mitigate this negative relationship. Employers can support active coping through corporate programs and managerial discourse in order to retain employees despite existing role conflicts.
Part of the book: Human Resource Management - An Update