TY - JOUR
T1 - Managerial skill utilization
T2 - Work environment, gender, and training incentive
AU - Chen, Ziguang
AU - Takeuchi, Norihiko
AU - Wakabayashi, Mitsuru
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was initially funded by the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS (the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) related to the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (P98347). Subsequent financial support was provided by the City University of Hong Kong (Strategic Research Grant, #7001166). We would like to acknowledge IJHRM editor Michael Poole and the anonymous referee for their most helpful comments in the development of this paper. We also would like to thank Jia Lin Xie, Kwok Leung, Kwaku Atuahene-Gima, Joseph C. Cheng and Teck Dines for their helpful support and comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - Past studies have demonstrated that a supportive work environment can positively influence managerial skill utilization. Adopting the instrumentality-expressiveness perspective, the present study extended the past research by illustrating the moderating effect of gender on this relationship. It found that the relationship between the work environment and managerial skill utilization is stronger among female managers than among male managers and further, that this interactive effect is more pronounced in a low incentive situation than in a high incentive situation in terms of reaching a high level of training performance. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.
AB - Past studies have demonstrated that a supportive work environment can positively influence managerial skill utilization. Adopting the instrumentality-expressiveness perspective, the present study extended the past research by illustrating the moderating effect of gender on this relationship. It found that the relationship between the work environment and managerial skill utilization is stronger among female managers than among male managers and further, that this interactive effect is more pronounced in a low incentive situation than in a high incentive situation in terms of reaching a high level of training performance. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.
KW - Gender
KW - Instrumentality-expressiveness perspective
KW - Managerial skill utilization
KW - Training incentive
KW - Work environment
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U2 - 10.1080/09585190500083301
DO - 10.1080/09585190500083301
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:22744449453
SN - 0958-5192
VL - 16
SP - 786
EP - 808
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
IS - 5
ER -
