The Impact Mechanism Of High Performance Work System On Thriving At Work

Thriving at work is a positive psychological state in which individuals experience both a sense of vitality and a sense of learning at work.Vitality refers to the positive feeling of having energy available,reflecting feelings of aliveness.Learning refers to the sense that one is acquiring and can apply knowledge and skills.Thriving at work has positive effects both on employees and organization.The employee who is thriving at work is healthier,more innovative at work,more loyal to the organization and can create high performance for organization all the time.Thriving at work has a positive influence on building a sustainable organization.Present studies have shown that organizational human resource practices can have a positive impact on thriving at work,such as diversity,discretion,employee involvement climate,information sharing,and trust and respect climate and so on.However,these researches focus on the role of a single human resource practice in thriving at work,ignoring the systematic nature of human resource practices.The studies of strategic human resource management find that it is the human resource system which matches the organization's strategic objectives that can bring competitive advantage for the organization not a single human resource practice.It is important to explore the impact of human resource practices on thriving at work based from a strategic,holistic and systematic perspective.As an important part of strategic human resource management research,high performance work system refers to a series of human resources practices which can maximize employees' performance to improve organization's performance by promoting employees' ability,opportunity and motivation.Many scholars have proved that high-performance work system has a positive impact on employees' psychological experience,such as employee wellbeing,work engagement and work satisfaction and so on.Thriving at work provides a new direction of high-performance work system's influence results because it includes vitality and learning.Therefore,this paper will explore the impact mechanism of high performance work system on thriving at work.This article first researched literatures about thriving at work,high performance work system,organization-based self-esteem and self-monitoring to build a theoretical model of high performance work system affecting thriving at work and put forward the relevant hypothesis;Secondly,we revised the questionnaire through pilot investigation and collected data through formal investigation,and then used statistics software SPSS and AMOS to do statistical analysis to test the hypothesis;Finally,based on the study results,we put forwards some suggestions and strategies about how to improve employees' s thriving at work.Specific research conclusions are as follows:(1)High performance work system has significant positive effects on thriving at work,so the organization should actively implement high performance work system to further enhance employees' thriving at work;(2)Organization-based self-esteem plays a partial intermediary role between high performance work system and employee thriving at work,as a result organizations need to attach importance to employee's organization-based self-esteem management;(3)Self-monitoring negatively moderates the mediating effect of organization-based self-esteem on the relationship between high performance work system and thriving at work,so organization-based self-esteem will exert less mediating effect when employees have high self-monitoring.