What Matters between HPWS and Employee Outcomes: Mediating Roles of Human Capital and Employee Motivation And Moderating Role of Leadership

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between high performance work system and employee performance at individual level in the context of Vietnam through the mediating effects of human capital and perceived organizational support and the moderating effects of transformational leadership toward the relationship between high performance work system and human capital perceived organizational support The data collection of this study was conducted in Samsung Electronics Vietnam Company in Bac Ninh Vietnam To avoid the bias the questionnaires had been divided into two sets one set firstly was sent to employees to answer afterward it was re-collected and enclosed with the other set for their direct supervisors’ responses Based on the results this study showed there exist a lightly direct relationship between HPWS and employee performance But this relationship was strengthened through the mediating roles of human capital and perceived organizational support The results also showed that the transformational leadership negatively moderates toward the relationship between high performance work system and perceived organizational support It contributed both in theoretical and practical to the field of HRM and in manufacturing field of foreign invested organizations in Vietnam

Date of Award	2014 Jan 20
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hsi-An Shih (Supervisor)