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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

HR

Session: 540: HR Systems and Workplace Challenges: Navigating the Path to a Better Future

540: Female Leadership in the HR Function and the Adoption of High-Involvement HR Practices (12224)

Sunday, August 11, 2024
08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Swissotel: Vevey 1
Session Number: 540
Paper Session
Orientation: Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/5nWBQw

    Author(s)

  • JL

    Junting Li

    School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies U., United States

  • JH

    Joo Hun Han

    KAIST College of Business, Korea, Republic of

  • YP

    Yan Pan

    Rutgers U., School of Management and Labor Relations, United States

Drawing on the upper echelons theory and research on gender leadership, this study proposes that the gender of chief HR officers (CHRO) can impact the adoption of high-involvement HR practices. I specifically expect that female CHROs are more committed to the adoption of high-involvement HR practices because of the characteristics of their leadership styles, cognitive styles, and values compared with male CHROs. While I propose that the direct effects of CHRO gender on the adoption of high-involvement HR practices are positive, the total effects of CHRO gender may also be conditioned by three organizational factors—the proportion of female top executives, the proportion of female middle managers and the level of financial slack. I test the research model using eight-wave panel data in South Korea from 2005 to 2019.

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