AUTHOR=Shi Lulu , Van Veldhoven Marc , Kooij Dorien , Van De Voorde Karina , Karanika-Murray Maria 

TITLE=High-performance work systems and individual performance: a longitudinal study of the differential roles of happiness and health well-being

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1261564

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1261564

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=As a part of the growing strand of employee-centred HRM research, employee well-being is suggested to be a key mechanism that may help to explain the relationship between HRM and performance. To investigate how an employee's well-being mediates the HRM-performance relationship, we distinguish between two types of well-being identified in prior work, happiness well-being and health well-being, and present arguments for differences in their effects on individual performance. Building on Job Demands-Resources (JDR) theory, we propose that happiness well-being positively mediates the relationship between perceived High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) and individual task performance, while health well-being negatively mediates this focal relationship. Thus, happiness well-being fits the "mutual gains" perspective. In contrast, health well-being fits the "conflicting outcomes" perspective, and thus may be harmed by the HPWS to enhance the performance. We find support for our arguments in an analysis of a longitudinal survey data of 420 participants spanning a total of four waves of data collection.