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Impact of Behavioral Flexibility on Flexible HR System and Organizational Role Stress

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Global Value Chains, Flexibility and Sustainability

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In the current dynamic business environment, where there is an overlapping of organizational roles, it is extremely challenging for employees to focus on professional success to achieve as well as accomplish a specific career objective. In an organization, employees make some behavioral changes and try to adopt behavioral flexibility to adjust with the situation. As flexibility is known as the capacity to react to different demanding, dynamic, and competitive conditions which brings a change in an individual’s regular behavior. This change in behavior is not only for adjusting with the culture of the organization; individuals show flexible behavior also for the purpose of managing their organizational role stress . The behavioral flexibility of an employee demonstrates broad range of behavior traits that could be used in different situation-focused demands. These traits are easy to adapt as compared to the changes in routine behaviors. At the firm level, human resource adaptability is the dynamic capacity of a firm centered on adjusting employee characteristics, and behavioral flexibility is one of the attributes. This article investigates the links between employees’ behavioral flexibility at workplace, flexible HR systems, and organizational role stress . This study has been conducted on middle management employees in India . A well-constructed questionnaire with standard scales was used for data collection. Hypotheses were tested through statistical analysis after building psychometric properties of the scales. The results show that behavioral flexibility is significantly associated with HR flexibility and organizational role stress . Results have been further analyzed for their practical implications and future direction.

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    Priyanka Jaiswal

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  3. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

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  4. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

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Jaiswal, P. (2018). Impact of Behavioral Flexibility on Flexible HR System and Organizational Role Stress. In: Connell, J., Agarwal, R., Sushil, Dhir, S. (eds) Global Value Chains, Flexibility and Sustainability. Flexible Systems Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8929-9_14

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