Author(s)

Min Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, 541006, China

Corresponding Author

Min Xu

ABSTRACT

In the Uka era characterized by changeability, instability, complexity and ambiguity, the traditional organizational form and management model are bound to be changed. How to stimulate employee enthusiasm and improve organizational performance through effective human resources management practice needs to be further explored. Based on the theory of social exchange, this study explores the influence mechanism of flexible human resources management on the citizen behavior of employees' organizations, and analyzes the intermediary role of psychological contracts and the regulatory role of organizational identity. The results show that flexible human resources management helps to promote employees to show organizational citizenship behavior. Psychological contracts play an intermediary role in flexible human resources management and employee organizational civic behavior, and organizational identity positively regulates the intermediary role between psychological contracts and employee organizational civic behavior. The research results enrich the effects of flexible human resources management on individuals.

KEYWORDS

Flexible human resources management; employee organization citizenship behavior; psychological contract; organizational identity

CITE THIS PAPER

Min Xu, Research on the impact mechanism of flexible human resources management on the civic behavior of employee organizations. Journal of Human Resource Development (2024) Vol. 6: 8-19. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jhrd.2024.060202.

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