Employee stress and the implication of high-power distance culture: empirical evidence from Nigeria's employment terrain
Employee stress and the implication of high-power distance culture: empirical evidence from Nigeria's employment terrain
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员工压力和高权力距离文化的影响：来自尼日利亚就业领域的经验证据
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10.1108/er-11-2019-0425
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2020
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Chianu Dibia
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E. Oruh;Chianu Dibia
本文探讨了尼日利亚员工压力与高权力距离（HPD）文化之间的关系。研究背景是尼日利亚的银行和制造业，它们有剥削的历史，不利于生产力的工作环境，工作与生活的不平衡，工作过载，倦怠和员工压力。本文采用定性解释方法，对24名管理人员和非管理人员进行半结构化访谈得出的数据进行专题分析，探讨尼日利亚制造业和银行业的工作（不良）做法不受挑战的过程，从而引发和加剧了员工的压力水平。研究发现，高权力距离文化促进了一种仆人-主人关系类型，使得员工不可能在与压力源有关的问题上挑战雇主，如工作过载、不利的工作环境、工作与生活的不平衡和倦怠，从而加剧了他们的压力水平，在一个压力已经成为一种生活方式的国家。关于员工压力与HPD文化之间关系的研究相对不发达。本文阐明了与尼日利亚人力资源管理（HRM）和就业关系实践中的压力源相关的问题。员工无法挑战这些压力源（这是HPD文化的后果）与员工压力增加之间的联系对就业和与工作相关的政策和实践具有重大影响。这项研究受限于有限的样本量，这抑制了其研究结果的推广。这篇文章补充了缺乏研究强调高权力距离和员工无法挑战工作压力之间的关系，作为员工压力的预测因素和工作场所实践与员工压力之间的中介，特别是在新兴经济体。
This paper explores the link between employee stress and the high-power distance (HPD) culture in Nigeria. The study context is the banking and manufacturing sectors in Nigeria, which have a history of exploitation, unconducive work environments to productivity, work-life imbalance, work overload, burnout and employee stress.,Using a qualitative, interpretive methodology, this article adopts a thematic analysis of data drawn from semi-structured interviews with 24 managerial and non-managerial workers to explore the process by which Nigerian manufacturing and banking sectors' work (mal)practices go unchallenged, thereby triggering and exacerbating employees' stress levels.,The study found that the high power distance culture promotes a servant-master relationship type, making it impossible for employees to challenge employers on issues relating to stressors such as work overload, unconducive work environments, work-life imbalance and burnout, thereby exacerbating their stress levels in a country in which stress has become a way of life.,Research on the relationship between employee stress and HPD culture is relatively underdeveloped. This article sheds light on issues associated with stressors in Nigeria's human resource management (HRM) and employment relations practices. The link between the inability of employees to challenge these stressors (which are consequences of an HPD culture) and increased employee stress has substantial implications for employment and work-related policies and practices in general. The study is constrained by the limited sample size, which inhibits the generalisation of its findings.,The article adds to the scarcity of studies underscoring the relationship between high-power distance and the inability of employees to challenge work-related stressors as a predictor of employee stress and a mediator between workplace practices and employee stress, particularly in the emerging economies.