Environmental Uncertainty and Motivation: Cross-national Examination on HR Challenges in time of Crisis

本研究以环境不确定性与个人动机为研究对象，探讨危机时期人力资源管理的动态性。环境不确定性是从内部环境不确定性和外部环境不确定性两个方面来考察的。研究发现，在中国、日本和美国，员工对内部和外部环境不确定性的感知存在差异，环境不确定性与个体动机的交互作用对个体组织行为的影响存在差异。

Focusing on the dynamics underlying environmental uncertainty and individual motivations, this study aims to examine the human resource management in time of crisis. The environmental uncertainty is examined in terms of the internal environmental and external environmental uncertainties. It is found that the employees have different perceptions on the internal and external environmental uncertainty, and that the interactions between environmental uncertainty and individual motivations will affect individual organizational behaviors differently in China, Japan and the U.S.