Beginning teachers' perceptions of school human resource practices

Asia Pacific Journal of Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-386

  Kwan, Paula ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Affective commitment; Beginning teachers; Human resource practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860381067     PISSN: 02188791     EISSN: 17426855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02188790903092878     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Advisory Committee on Teacher Education and Qualifications. (2003). Teacher competencies framework. Retrieved June 10, 2007, from http://www.acteq.hk/category.asp?lang = en&cid=54&pid=41
2. Agarao-Fernandez, E., & de Guzman, A.B. (2006). Exploring the dimensionality of teacher professionalization. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 5, 211-224.
3. Avolio, B.J. (1999). Full leadership development: Building the vital forces in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
4. Avolio, B.J., Bass, B.M., & Jung, D.I. (1999). Re-examining the components of transformational and transactional leadership using the multifactor leadership questionnaire. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72, 441-462.
5. Barmby, P. (2006). Improving teacher recruitment and retention: The importance of workload and pupil behaviour. Educational Research, 48, 247-265.
6. Bass, B.M. (1995). Theory of transformational leadership redux. Leadership Quarterly, 6, 463-478.
7. Beer, M., Spector, B., Lawrence, P.R., Mills, D.Q., & Walton, R.E. (1984). Managing human assets: The groundbreaking Harvard business school program. New York: Free Press.
8. Boxall, P. (1996). The strategic HRM debate and the resource-based view of the firm. Human Resource Management Journal, 6(3), 59-75.
9. Boxall, P., & Purcell, J. (2000). Strategic human resource management: Where have we come from and where should we be going? International Journal of Management Reviews, 2, 183-203.
10. Chen, Z.X., & Francesco, A.M. (2003). The relationship between the three components of commitment and employee performance in China. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 62, 490-510.
11. Darling-Hammond, L. (1990). Teachers and teaching: Signs of a changing profession. In W.R. Houston (Ed.), Handbook of research on teacher education (pp. 267-290). New York: Macmillan.
12. Day, C. (1999). Developing teachers: The challenges of lifelong learning. London: Falmer Press.
13. Delery, J.E., & Doty, D.H. (1996). Modes of theorizing in strategic human resource management: Tests of universalistic, contingency, and configurational performance predictions. Academy of Management Journal, 39, 802-835.
14. Dessler, G. (2006). A framework for human resource management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
15. Dimmock, C., & Walker, A. (2005). Educational leadership: Culture and diversity. London: Sage.
16. Dymoke, S., & Harrison, J.K. (2006). Professional development and the beginning teacher: Issues of teacher autonomy and institutional conformity in the performance review process. Journal of Education for Teaching, 32, 71-92.
17. Education Bureau. (2008a). Press releases and publications: Secondary education. Retrieved November 25, 2008, from http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?langno=1&nodeid=1039
18. Education Bureau. (2008b). Press releases and publications: Primary education. Retrieved November 25, 2008, from http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?langno=1&nodeid=1038
19. Fiorito, J., Bozeman, D.P., Young, A., & Meurs, J.A. (2007). Organizational commitment, human resource practices, and organizational characteristics. Journal of Managerial Issues, 19, 186-207.
20. Flores, M.A., & Day, C. (2006). Contexts which shape and reshape new teachers' identities: A multiperspective study. Teaching and Teacher Education, 22, 219-232.
21. Foster, R. (2005). Leadership and secondary school improvement: Case studies of tensions and possibilities. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory & Practice, 8, 35-52.
22. Gibb, S. (2001). The state of human resource management: Evidence from employees' views of HRM systems and staff. Employee Relations, 23, 318-336.
23. Grant, D. (1999). HRM, rhetoric and the psychological contract: A case of "easier said than done". International Journal of Human Resource Management, 10, 327-350.
24. Grant, D., & Shields, J. (2002). In search of the subject: Researching employee reactions to human resource management. Journal of Industrial Relations, 44, 313-334.
25. Gratton, R. (2004). Teacher appraisal: A lesson on confusion over purpose. International Journal of Educational Management, 18, 292-296.
26. Griffith, J. (2004). Relation of principal transformational leadership to school staff job satisfaction, staff turnover, and school performance. Journal of Educational Administration, 42, 333-356.
27. Guest, D.E. (1998). Is the psychological contract worth taking seriously? Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19, 649-664.
28. Gunter, H.M. (2002). Teacher appraisal 1988-1998: A case study. School Leadership & Management, 22, 61-72.
29. Harel, H.G., & Tzafrir, S.S. (1999). The effect of human resource management practices on the perceptions of organizational and market performance of the firm. Human Resource Management, 38, 185-199.
30. Hiltrop, J.-M. (1996). The impact of human resource management on organisational performance: Theory and research. European Management Journal, 14, 628-637.
31. Hofstede, G. (1993). Cultural constraints in management theories. Academy of Management Executive, 7(1), 81-94.
32. Hofstede, G. (1998). Attitudes, values and organizational culture: Disentangling the concepts. Organization Studies, 19, 477-493.
33. Holt, D.H. (1993). Management: Principles and practices. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
34. Joreskog, K.G., & Sorbom, D. (1993). LISREL 8 user's reference guide. Chicago: Scientific Software International.
35. Khilji, S.E., & Wang, X. (2006). "Intended" and "implemented" HRM: The missing linchpin in strategic human resource management research. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17, 1171-1189.
36. Kwan, P., & Walker, A. (2008). Vice-principalship in Hong Kong: Aspirations, competencies and satisfaction. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 19, 73-97.
37. Kwan, P., & Walker, A. (2009). Are we looking through the same lens? Principal recruitment and selection. International Journal of Educational Research, 48, 51-61.
38. Leithwood, K., & Jantzi, D. (2000). The effects of transformational leadership on organizational conditions and student engagement with school. Journal of Educational Administration, 38, 112-129.
39. Leithwood, K., & Jantzi, D. (2006). Transformational school leadership for large-scale reform: Effects on students, teachers, and their classroom practices. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 17(2), 201-227.
40. Mayer, D., Mitchell, J., & Macdonald, D. (2005). Professional standards for teachers: A case study of professional learning. Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 33(2), 159-179.
41. Robinson, S.L. (1996). Trust and breach of the psychological contract. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41, 574-599.
42. Rosenholtz, S.J., & Simpson, C. (1990). Workplace conditions and the rise and fall of teachers' commitment. Sociology of Education, 63, 241-257.
43. Ross, J.A., & Gray, P. (2006). Transformational leadership and teacher commitment to organizational values: The mediating effects of collective teacher efficacy. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 17(2), 179-199.
44. Rousseau, D.M. (1995). Psychological contracts in organizations: Understanding written and unwritten agreements. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
45. Smethem, L. (2007). Retention and intention in teaching careers: Will the new generation stay? Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 13, 465-480.
46. Smylie, M.A., Miretzky, D., & Konkol, P. (2004). Rethinking teacher workforce development: A strategic human resource management perspective. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 103(1), 34-69.
47. Steers, R.M., & Black, J.S. (1994). Organizational behavior. New York: Harper Collins College.
48. Vonk, J.H.C. (1989). Beginning teachers' professional development and its implications for teacher education and training. Irish Journal of Education, 23(1), 5-21.
49. Wilhelm, K., Dewhurst-Savellis, J., & Parker, G. (2000). Teacher stress? An analysis of why teachers leave and why they stay. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 6, 291-304.
50. Wood, S. (1999). Human resource management and performance. International Journal of Management Reviews, 1, 367-413.
51. Wright, P.M., Dunford, B.B., & Snell, S.A. (2001). Human resources and the resource based view of the firm. Journal of Management, 27, 701-721.
52. Wright, P.M., Gardner, T.M., & Moynihan, L.M. (2003). The impact of HR practices on the performance of business units. Human Resource Management Journal, 23(3), 21-36.
53. Wright, P.M., & Snell, S.A. (1991). Toward an integrative view of strategic human resource management. Human Resource Management Review, 1, 203-225.
54. Young, I.P. (2008). The human resource function in educational administration. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
55. Zhu, W., Chew, I.K.H., & Spangler, W.D. (2005). CEO transformational leadership and organizational outcomes: The mediating role of human-capital-enhancing human resource management. The Leadership Quarterly, 16, 39-52.