| Author: | Yu, Kwok Kuen Harry |
| Title: | Navigating the tricky terrain : independent directors caught between quitting and monitoring effectiveness |
| Advisors: | Ou, Amy (MM) |
| Degree: | D.B.A. |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Subject: | Outside directors of corporations Corporate governance Personnel management Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Faculty of Business |
| Pages: | viii, 137 pages |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The primary objective of this study is to examine how job demands and personal resources affect independent directors’ monitoring effectiveness and intention to quit. Specifically, this study adopts the Job Demand Resources theory to: (a) identify and investigate the effects of job demands faced by independent directors including organizational constraints (information processing barriers and time pressure) and role ambiguity, (b) identify and investigate the effects of personal resources, namely, professionalism, and (c) propose work engagement and proactive job crafting behavior as important mechanisms that indirectly channel the effect of job demands and professionalism on monitoring effectiveness and intention to quit of independent directors. With a two-wave survey study of 119 independent directors of listed companies in Hong Kong, my thesis reveals that organizational constraints and role ambiguity are negatively associated with independent directors’ monitoring effectiveness and positively associated with their intention to quit. In contrast, professionalism is positively associated with work engagement and proactive job crafting. In addition, proactive job crafting relates positively with monitoring effectiveness but also positively with intention to quit, while work engagement relates negatively with intention to quit. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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