Family-Friendly Human Resource Practice, Organizational Commitment, and Job Performance among Employees: The Mediating Role of Workplace Spirituality — Oak Academic Publishing
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Family-Friendly Human Resource Practice, Organizational Commitment, and Job Performance among Employees: The Mediating Role of Workplace Spirituality
School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
1 School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
2 School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
The aim of this article is to examine the effect of family-friendly human resource practice on employees’ organizational commitment and job performance, and the role of workplace spirituality fit within the prior relationship. To this end, this research collects 347 samples data, and conducts a hierarchical regression analysis. The results show that family-friendly human resource practice has a significant positive effect on the organizational commitment and job performance of employees, whilst workplace spirituality plays a partial inter-mediary role in the relationship. This research suggests that organizations should pay attention to the implementation of family-friendly human resource practice in order to improve organizational commitment and job performance of employees, thus enhancing the organization’s competitive advantages.
KeywordsFamily-Friendly Human Resource PracticeOrganizational CommitmentJob PerformanceWorkplace Spirituality
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