The Interaction Effect of Information Asymmetry and Decentralization on Managers' Job Satisfaction: A Research Note

Chia, Yew-Ming

doi:10.1177/001872679504800601

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“…The scale attempts to determine the extent to which a superior has more information than the subordinate regarding the subordinate's area of responsibility. Prior studies (Dunk, 1993; Chia, 1995) report satisfactory internal reliability and construct validity for the measure. In the current study, the Cronbach alpha is .81.…”

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confidence: 81%

Antecedents of Budget Participation: Leadership Style, Information Asymmetry, and Evaluative Use of Budget

Kyj

Parker

2008

Abacus

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This study explores the causes or antecedents of budget participation to understand more fully the role of participation in the workplace. The study focuses on the reasons why superiors encourage the budget participation of their subordinates and draws upon several theoretical perspectives including leadership theory, agency theory and organizational justice. To examine the issues, a survey was administered to managers and supervisors in several companies. Results of path analysis suggest that superiors encourage subordinate participation when the superior's leadership style is considerate. This implies that budget participation may mediate the relation between leadership style and work outcomes. Results also suggest that superiors encourage participation when budget goals are used in the performance evaluation of subordinates, in which case, the study argues, the superiors encourage participation because of concerns about organizational justice. This finding implies that budget participation may mediate the relation between the evaluative use of budget and those work outcomes that prior research has linked to organizational justice. The proposed relation between information asymmetry and budget participation is not supported.

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Section: Methods and Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 81%

Antecedents of Budget Participation: Leadership Style, Information Asymmetry, and Evaluative Use of Budget

Kyj

Parker

2008

Abacus

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“…This value denotes the inflection point. As the value is within the range of observable values for X2, it will be possible to interpret the results of Equation C (Chia, 1995). When X2 is below the value of 5.82, Equation C will be positive.…”

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confidence: 96%

Presenteeism of hotel employees: interaction effects of empowerment and hardiness

Chia

Chu²

2017

IJCHM

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the two-way interaction effects of empowerment and hardiness on the presenteeism of hotel employees. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 358 hotel employees in Sabah, East Malaysia, via a questionnaire survey and analyzed using multiplicative regression analysis. Findings The results confirm the presence of a two-way interaction effect between empowerment and hardiness on the presenteeism of hotel employees at a significance level of 0.01. Further analysis indicates that the higher the level of hardiness, the greater is its negative effect on the relationship between empowerment and the presenteeism of hotel employees. Research limitations/implications The survey was cross-sectional and causal relationships among the variables cannot be inferred. The results were gathered from selected hotels and should not be generalized to all hotel employees in Sabah, East Malaysia. Practical implications The findings challenge the assumption of a positive association between empowerment and presenteeism and demonstrate that different levels of hardiness can influence this relationship. When empowering employees, management staff should also consider the provision of resilience-related training programs for less hardy employees. This would enable such employees to handle their presenteeism behavior arising from the increased level of empowerment. Originality/value This study provides the first empirical evidence of a two-way interaction effect of predictors on the presenteeism of hotel employees and could serve to influence mainstream journals in the presenteeism literature. Researchers could apply the analytical approach to examine future studies relating to higher-order effects of predictors on the presenteeism of hotel employees.

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“…16 Furthermore, efficiency is likely to be adversely affected in the GHS because there is evidence to suggest that, the ability of local managers to hire, fire and provide specific incentives to employees improves efficiency. 43…”

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Decentralisation and Management of Human Resource for Health in the Health System of Ghana: A Decision Space Analysis

Sumah

Baatiema

2018

Int J Health Policy Manag

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Background: The implications of decentralisation on human resource for health management has not received adequate research attention despite the presupposition that the concept of decentralisation leads to the transfer of management authority and discretion for human resource management from national levels to subnational levels. This study aims at investigating the extent to which decentralisation practice transfers management autonomy and discretion to subnational units, and the effect of the level of decision space on human resource management in the health sector. Methods: A mixed methods study design was adopted employing a cross-sectional survey and a document analysis. The respondents included health managers from the regional, district and hospital administrations as well as facility managers from the community-based health planning and services zones. A decision space framework was employed to measure management autonomy and discretion at various management levels of the study region. For the quantitative data, descriptive statistical analysis was used to analyse and report the data whilst the qualitative data was contentanalysed. Results: The study reported that in practice, management authority for core human resource functions such as recruitment, remuneration, personnel training and development are centralised rather than transferred to the subnational units. It further reveals that authority diminishes along the management continuum from the national to the community level. Decentralisation was however found to have led to greater autonomy in technical supervision and performance appraisal. The study also reported the existence of discrepancy between the wide decision space for performance assessment through technical supervision and performance appraisal exercised by managers at the subnational level and a rather limited discretion for providing incentives or rewards to staff. Conclusion: The practice of decentralisation in the Ghanaian health sector is more apparent than real. The limited autonomy and discretion in the management of human resource at the subnational units have potential adverse implications on effective recruitment, retention, development and distribution of health personnel. Therefore, further decision space is required at the subnational level to enhance effective and efficient management of human resource to attain the health sector objectives.

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The Interaction Effect of Information Asymmetry and Decentralization on Managers' Job Satisfaction: A Research Note

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Antecedents of Budget Participation: Leadership Style, Information Asymmetry, and Evaluative Use of Budget

Antecedents of Budget Participation: Leadership Style, Information Asymmetry, and Evaluative Use of Budget

Presenteeism of hotel employees: interaction effects of empowerment and hardiness

Decentralisation and Management of Human Resource for Health in the Health System of Ghana: A Decision Space Analysis

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