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High-involvement management, economic recession, well-being, and organizational performance
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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:48 authored by Stephen Wood, Chidiebere OgbonnayaHigh-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.
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Journal of ManagementISSN
0149-2063Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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8Volume
44Page range
3070-3095Department affiliated with
- Management Publications
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- Future of Work Hub Publications
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2018-08-28First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-08-28First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-08-24Usage metrics
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