January'23
The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior
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Shift in Employee Engagement Drivers Following Covid-19 Pandemic: A Literature Review
Today, employee engagement has become a critical issue for every organization. Earlier, while organizations considered employees as a strategic tool, they are now believed to be strategic partners in a business. Employee engagement is connected with organizational outputs such as productivity, retention rate, creativity, customer satisfaction, and sustainability. This study focuses on the concept of employee engagement drivers that affect employee engagement at workplace, and the challenges faced by organizations and employees before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. An extensive literature review was done on such drivers, to find out whether there is some shift in the engagement drivers before and after the emergence of the pandemic and whether the shift is a slight or a major one. Fifty-one research publications on employee engagement, published in various journals between 1970 and 2022, were examined, and databases such as Web of Science, EBSCO, and ProQuest were used. FullArticle...
Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Practices in Indian Tea Companies
The purpose of the study is to examine the Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure (CSRD) practices of 15 tea companies in India. It also analyzes their mode and focus of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) implementation. The study aims to provide evidence on how companies comply with CSRD provisions. The findings reveal that a majority of the companies, i.e., 70.66% (average from five indices), comply with the provisions of CSRD. Four of the 15 companies implement CSR directly, two through implementing agencies, and nine through both direct and implementing agencies. Schedule (i), Schedule (ii), Schedule (iv), Category B (healthcare programs), category E (environmental sustainability), and Category C (primary education and vocational training) are the top focus areas of CSR. CSRD compliance, communication, and intervention between management, stakeholders, and government help address the problems of plantation workers. The study broadens one's understanding of CSR and CSRD practices and fills the lacuna in the literature on the tea Industry's CSR practices. FullArticle...
Occupational Stress Among Accounting Professionals: A Systematic Literature Review
The objective of the study is to systematically review the literature pertaining to occupational stress among accounting professionals. Although occupational stress is a much-talked about phenomenon, managers have not been able to solve the problem effectively. Therefore, to comprehend the complex and holistic nature of the phenomenon, a review of literature available from 1985 to 2020 was carried out using different databases. Personal factors that induce stress such as locus of control, work-home conflict, social support, personality and gender were studied extensively. The review provides an objective understanding of the research status in this extremely significant field and helps in identifying the research gap and key domains for future research and/or theory development. FullArticle...
Psychological Contract Breach and Job Outcomes: Moderating Role of Educational Qualification
The study examines the moderating role of educational qualifications in Psychological Contract Breach (PCB) and job outcomes. Using One-way ANOVA, the study examines the effect of different levels of educational qualifications on the type of PCB and employee outcomes. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of educational qualifications on the type of PCB and all employee outcomes, except turnover intention. The study also examines the moderating effect of educational qualifications on the relationship between PCB and job outcomes. The results show that educational qualifications moderate the relationship between PCB and turnover intention. Visual inspection of the interaction plot shows that as the educational level increases, the effect of PCB on turnover intentions also increases. FullArticle...