The integration of Artificial Intelligence into Original Brand Manufacturing firms presents both opportunities and challenges for fostering employee innovation. This study investigates how AI adoption influences employees’ innovative behavior, with a particular focus on the mediating role of job security and the moderating role of employee well-being. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model and Conservation of Resources theory, we developed a conceptual framework that captures the dual-...

Human Resource Management  Organizational Behavior 

Employee motivation, a core HRM function, directly impacts productivity and performance. By scientifically applying motivation theories and combining financial with non-financial incentives, firms can tailor policies to their development stage and workforce profile, thereby enhancing work enthusiasm, organizational commitment, and overall competitiveness. This study systematically reviews major motivation theories and their applications, finding that incentive effectiveness is moderated by organ...

Personnel and Industrial Relations  Human Resource Management  Business Theories  Business Management  Organizational Behavior  Organizational Behavior and Theory 

In the digital economy era, talent has become a core strategic resource for organizations, but the issue of rising employee turnover rates and job burnout is becoming increasingly prominent, and the impact of family responsibilities on career development urgently needs to be further explored. This study is based on the work family boundary theory and resource conservation theory, and constructs a theoretical model of family responsibility perception, work embeddedness, and employee subjective ca...

Human Resource Management 

This study examined the nature of job-related stress and the role of technology in reducing workplace stress among employees in upscale hotels. It used a descriptive cross-sectional survey design. A structured questionnaire with 32 closed-ended items was used to collect data from 60 members of staff across eight hotels in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. It was found that hotel employees experienced moderately high stress, with job insecurity b...

Human Resource Management  Tourism Economy  Occupational Health  Management Information Systems 

Rapid technological advancement has intensified the need for leadership approaches capable of guiding organizations through digital transformation while sustaining high levels of employee motivation and creativity. Digital leadership, defined as the ability to integrate digital competencies with vision-building, communication, and people-oriented influence, has emerged as a critical factor in shaping organizational adaptability and innovative capacity. Despite its growing importance, empirical u...

Human Resource Management  Managerial Economics  Sociology  Business Management 

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