Do you really want to hurt me? The impact of contextual factors on the moderating role of dark leadership in the relationships between learning climate facilitation, employability and turnover intention in the Netherlands and China

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1148294
• Publication Date: 2023-08-03T17:24:40Z
• Authors: Omar Habets; Pascale Peters; Beatrice Van der ...; Jol Stoffers; Robert Blomme; Shudi Liao
• Keywords: Moderation; Employability; Facilitation; Sample (material)

Both the Dutch and Chinese labor markets experience severe shortages of skilled personnel high turnover rates, being distressing socio-economic factors. At same time, large cross-cultural studies indicate that these national contexts are highly different from a socio-cultural perspective. When considering issues on employee development retainment, public debate opens for negative attributes as dark leadership, wondering if employees accept to be hurt. This study contributes employability research and, moreover, it call ability contextualize theories convergence/divergence debate. We applied Western investigate possible contextual differences in relationships between learning climate facilitation intention, whether this relationship is mediated by employability, leadership moderator.To test our hypotheses, we collected data 368 319 respondents who participate an executive master's program, which was analyzed using PLS-Structural Equation Modeling.Employees Netherlands China were found interpret variables differently. Separate analyses revealed that, both contexts, directly indirectly, via balance dimension negatively related intention. In addition, sample, appeared weaken corporate sense but latter did not seem mediator with no moderation effects found.Our results show important factors retainment particularly focusing 'balancing group individual goals' retain personnel, regardless context. The may need convergence HR practices. however, interpretations study's divergence meaning concepts. discussion section, elaborate implications HR-researchers -practitioners global business contexts.