Contextualizing job design for individual work performance : the role of organizational strategy and structure

Hernaus, Tomislav (avtor), Černe, Matej (avtor), Sitar, Aleša Saša (avtor), Marič, Matija (avtor), Melkić, Sara (avtor)

This two-study, top-down multilevel research examines how to create high-performance jobs within well-designed organizations. By integrating a broad strategic human resource management perspective with the traditional strategy–structure–performance framework and influential job demands–resources theory, we explored whether and how the alignment of cognitive job demands and task-related resources mediates the cross-level relationship between strategy–structure fit and employees’ task performance. Multilevel mediation analyses were performed using nested, time-lagged data (Study 1: 874 employees across 49 organizations; Study 2: 479 employees and 171 managers across 40 organizations). Results consistently show that strategy–structure fit, as a macrolevel context, is too distal to directly influence individual work performance. Instead, the alignment of strategic ambidexterity and cross-functional integration enhances microlevel job demands–resources fit, which then improves employees’ task performance. These replicated findings, further supported by latent profile analysis, highlight the importance of contextualizing job design within organizational systems and introduce a multilevel, multi-fit framework with practical insights for human resource and organizational design professionals.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: corporations, business process, digitalization, literature review, job design, task performance, strategic ambidexterity, cross-functional integration, multilevel mediation, latent profile analysis
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 11 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 85, article no. ǂ103147
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179701
• UDK: 658
• ISSN pri članku: 0160-791X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103147
• COBISS.SI-ID: 256514563
• Datum objave v RUL: 20.02.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Technology in society
• Skrajšan naslov: Technol. soc.
• Založnik: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0160-791X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26504192

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: kadri, zaposlovanje, organizacijska psihologija, delovni učinek