In an increasingly digitalized global labor market, digital literacy has emerged as a critical determinant of employability, particularly among university graduates. This study explores the impact of digital literacy on the job-seeking behavior of African international students, a demographic that often faces unique academic, cultural, and economic challenges while studying abroad. With growing numbers of African students enrolled in universities across Asia, Europe, and North America, their tra...

Human Resource Management  Sociology 

This study explores how exploitative leadership-manifested through self-serving and manipulative practices-affects service performance in the hospitality industries of China and Morocco. By focusing on frontline employees rather than on managers, the project attempts to fill an empirical gap that has persisted in discussions about non-Western workplaces. Researchers posit that leaders who exploit their subordinates might be tacitly accepted in high-power-distance cultures such as China, whereas ...

Human Resource Management  Sociology 

Organizational culture in a company is a system that includes values and beliefs that must be respected by all members of that company and that they have in common, because through the organizational culture in the company, among employees at all levels, a sense of community and belonging is created. Organizational culture is a special form of behavior and guidance of individuals within the company, and the basic indicators of organizational culture are the tradition and history of the organizat...

Human Resource Management  Sociology 

This study explored the contextual setback of the grassroots elected leaders in grassroots governance in Tanzania. Specifically, it examines the legal framework and functional relations between grassroots elected leaders and their stakeholders in grassroots governance. The study employed the Principal agent model1 and its methodology was primarily qualitative. Its findings relied heavily on observations documentary review and indepth interviews with key informants concerned. Generally, it was fo...

Human Resource Management  Corporate Governance 

This study examines the impact of Transformational Leadership (TL) on employee outcomes, specifically Job Satisfaction (JS), Employee Motivation (EM), and Innovative Work Behavior (IWB), within small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan. Using a quantitative research approach, data were collected from 385 employees working in various SMEs across Pakistan through structured questionnaires. The study employed regression analysis to investigate the relationship between TL and employee outcomes...

Human Resource Management  Sociology 

In this study, we explore the complex interplay of respectful leadership and perceived leader weakness through detailed investigations of the causal mechanisms and contextual factors in the observed relationships. In particular, it looks at perceived leniency and indecisiveness and how they mediate follower perceptions of leadership strength and authority. Moreover, the study investigates the moderating effects of team dynamics, feedback mechanisms, and followers’ decision-making autonomy, thus ...

Human Resource Management 

The fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry is a highly competitive and progressive sector where companies must attract and retain the best skills to remain relevant and successful. In this ever-changing, modernizing world, organizations are compelled to keep up with trends on how to manage employees, motivate, and retain them. This study aimed to investigate the extent to which talent retention strategies can be contributory factors to employee motivation, which positively influences the emp...

Human Resource Management 

Employee’s performance is a major issue in an organization. It is important to acknowledge the potential negative impact it may have on the appraisees’ emotions and psychology, which can lead to negative workplace behaviors. Based on the frustration-aggression theory and social exchange theory, the article constructs a relationship model between assessment-based performance appraisal and coworker rejection, and analyzes the mediating role of interpersonal trust. Using multi-temporal valid data f...

Human Resource Management  Sociology 

The growing discrepancy between the supply and demand for skilled project managers is a thoroughly studied problem in the field of project management. The aging of the project management workforce, the rise in jobs requiring project management experience, and the need for project managers in rapidly growing industries are driving this trend. The following industries most frequently employ project managers: technology, healthcare, finance, and construction. This study investigates the psychology ...

Business Management  Human Resource Management  Project Management and Strategy  Project Management 

<strong>Purpose:</strong> Leadership theory has morphed and diverged through many iterations from Thomas Carlyle’s Great Man Theory of the early 1900s to the array of people-centered theories actively applied today. While change and growth in theory are natural, modern Human Resource Development (HRD) scholars and practitioners are facing a distinct lack of consensus on a dominant modern leadership theory. This descriptive review seeks to determine what current Human Resource Develop...

Human Resource Management