Leadership and Human Resources Management Practices: The mediating role of organizational virtues

Abstract Considering the unexplored relationship between leadership, organizational virtues, and human resource management practices, the purpose of this paper is to test a structural model of mediation between leadership and human resource management, being organizational virtues the mediating variable. We performed a survey with 673 employees in Brazil, resorting to Structural Equation Modeling to analyze the data. Findings show that organizational virtues mediate the relationship between leadership and HRM practices. We confirm the positive effect of leadership on organizational virtues, the influence of organizational virtues on HRM practices, and the impact of leadership on HRM practices. This paper contributes to the literature on human resource management and organizational behavior, particularly concerning investigations that deal with antecedents of HRM practices.

摘要：鉴于领导力、组织美德与人力资源管理实践（Human Resource Management Practices）之间尚未得到充分探索的关联关系，本文旨在检验以组织美德为中介变量的领导力与人力资源管理实践间的中介结构模型。本研究针对巴西673名员工开展问卷调查，并采用结构方程模型（Structural Equation Modeling）对数据进行分析。研究结果显示，组织美德在领导力与人力资源管理实践之间发挥中介作用。本研究证实了领导力对组织美德具有正向影响、组织美德对人力资源管理实践具有显著影响，以及领导力对人力资源管理实践的直接影响。本文为人力资源管理与组织行为领域的相关文献作出了贡献，尤其聚焦于针对人力资源管理实践前因变量的相关研究。