Examining social exchange among Chinese service workers: The mediating effect of trust in organization
Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration
ISSN: 1757-4323
Article publication date: 6 June 2016
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of perceived external prestige (PEP), perceived organizational support (POS), and organizational inducement (OI) on employee turnover intention (TI) and on the mediation effect of trust in organizations (TOs).
Design/methodology/approach
In all, 243 self-administered questionnaires were collected from five service companies in Guangdong, China. The construct validity, the measurement model, and the hypothetical relationship between variables were tested by partial-least-squares structural equation modeling.
Findings
The results demonstrate that OI, PEP, and POS tended to increase employees’ trust in their organization and hence to reduce their TI.
Practical implications
The findings of this study have implications for managers’ design and implementation of effective human resource management strategies for adults in China. To deal with the serious problem of high employee turnover in China, organizations should implement not only appropriate human resource policy but also practices to improve corporate reputation.
Originality/value
This paper extends the research on TI by investigating the impacts of PEP and the mediating effect of TOs in a Chinese context.
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Citation
Ng, M. (2016), "Examining social exchange among Chinese service workers: The mediating effect of trust in organization", Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJBA-12-2015-0102
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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