International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2018
How Does Employee Competence Affect Job Performance in Indonesia: The Mediating Role of Person-Job Fit
Publication: ICCREM 2018: Construction Enterprises and Project Management
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, more and more firms put emphasis on the promotion of job performance to achieve sustained competitive advantage. Although employee competence has been identified as an important independent variable as job performance, most of the current research investigates the direct effect of employee competence on job performance, and the internal mechanism has not yet received much attention. Drawing from the theory of employee competence and person-job fit, we hypothesize that person-job fit plays a role in the relationship between employee competence and job performance. Our findings indicate that employee competence has a significant positive effect on person-job fit, and person-job fit plays a meditating role in the process of employee competence influencing job performance. This study makes a particular contribution to the literature by providing a more complete understanding of how person-job fit plays a role in the relationship between employee competence and job performance. In terms of managerial implications, our results indicate firms should pay particular attention to nurturing person-job fit as a pathway to realize the full value of employee competence.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71472055, 71272175), National Social Science Foundation of China (16AZD0006), National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China (201104424, 2012M520697), Heilongjiang Philosophy and Social Science Research Project (14B105), and the Project sponsored by SRF for ROCS, SEM.
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ICCREM 2018: Construction Enterprises and Project Management
Pages: 64 - 71
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Yimin Zhu, Professor, Louisiana State University, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Mohamed Al-Hussein, Professor, University of Alberta
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8175-2
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Published online: Aug 8, 2018
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