Labor-management Partnership Practices and Labor Conflict: Mechanism and Contingency

Abstract

Abstract:

This study introduces job embeddedness as a mediating role between labor-management partnership practices and labor-management conflicts, and we examine independent self-construal as a moderator in this relationship. We conduct a questionnaire survey to 838 valid employees in 225 companies mainly located in Jiangsu, Shandong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The results show that (1) labor-management partnership practices have negative effects on labor-management conflicts and positive effects on job embeddedness and job embeddedness plays a partially mediating role between them; (2) independent self-construal moderates the relationship between labor-management partnership practices and labor-management conflicts. These conclusions indicate that we can better explain how labor-management partnership practices affect labor-management conflicts by taking job embeddedness and independent self-construal into consideration. Our empirical results provide important implication for the development and application of labor-management partnership practices.

Key words: labor-management partnership practices, job embeddedness, independent self-construal, labor-management conflicts

Wang Decai. Labor-management Partnership Practices and Labor Conflict: Mechanism and Contingency[J]. , 2018, 30(1): 89-97.

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