Eric Asante

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• PhD in Business
• Professor (Associate) at University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Previous research has predominantly focused on the overt acts of supervisory abuse or has taken a general approach that fails to differentiate between its distinctive forms. Integrating the literature on hot versus cold identity threats and identity threat appraisal, we examine how different forms of abusive supervision influence employee outcomes....

Despite numerous benefits, sustaining daily passion for one’s work is challenging. While prior research has examined personal and work-related factors that cause fluctuations in daily work passion, the impact of family-related factors remains underexplored. Drawing on the stressor-detachment model, we investigated the effects of daily family demand...

Past research has noted that assigned expatriates (AEs) face challenges that often lead to premature termination when dispatched by the parent organisation to live and work abroad. However, recent statistics show that most AEs have no knowledge on how to overcome these cultural challenges prior to sending them abroad. Guided by the socially embedde...

Frontline hospitality service employee (FLE) behaviors determine the service-profit link or even business survival. However, FLE roles are often low-paid, low-status, and insecure, particularly in economically uncertain times. We harmonized relevant tenets of conservation of resource theory to develop and test a resource-based theoretical model tha...

Mindfulness is a critical instrument in sustainable tourism development. However, existing literature on mindfulness’ role in hospitality and tourism sustainability has mostly focused on tourists’ perspective. In this study, we shift perspective to gain insight into how and when residents’ mindfulness relates to their attitudes and behaviors in hos...

In an atmosphere of pathogen danger and mistrust during a pandemic, misinformation can induce the urge to penalize the pathogen's origin-destination. This study exams the effect of COVID-19 origin belief (that is, the belief that the virus is human-engineered) on hospitality and tourism outcomes using multi-wave data (U.S. sample: N = 351). The fin...

Frontline employees (FLEs) faced double exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic—exposure to infection contagion and potential job loss. Such situations take an enormous emotional toll on FLEs. Responding to the heightened FLEs’ emotional toll during the pandemic, we integrated the motivational psychologies of disease avoidance and conservation of res...

An important concept that depicts the nature of employee–employer relationship is the psychological contract. Prior research has argued that all forms of extra-role behaviors suffer once employees’ psychological contracts are violated. Helping behaviors are a specific form of extra-role behaviors that may suffer due to psychological contract violat...

Frontline employees (FLEs) have faced double exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic – exposure to infection contagion and to potential job loss. As many workers worked remotely to facilitate social distancing, most FLEs were faced with the choice of either quitting or risk getting infected on duty. Responding to the heightened service employees’ bur...

This study utilizes social exchange theory to explicate how perceived high-performance work systems (perceived HPWS) improve service encounter quality through overall justice and psychological contract fulfillment processes. We amassed survey responses from focal employees and their respective customers in three waves. Structural equation modeling...

Integrating social exchange and psychological contract theories, this study examines how perceived service-oriented high-performance work systems (service-oriented HPWS) augment high-contact service organizations to improve their service encounter quality. In addition, it also tests the impact of psychological contract fulfillment, innovative work...

This study developed and tested a research model to examine the influence of leader humility on team creativity. Drawing on social learning theory, we tested team behavioral integration as a mediator in the relationship between leader humility and team creativity. Moreover, we tested the moderating effect of leader performance on this mediated rela...

The psyche-altering effects of COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable tourism behaviors are underexplored. More so, the scant research largely presents tourists’ perspective. Extending this body of work, our study – deploying evolutionary tourism paradigm, examines whether, the why and when perceived COVID-19 infectability (pathogen avoidance motive) imp...

Although there is a consensus in the literature that layoff can be viewed as a form of psychological contract (PC) violation, research is yet to examine how such violation impacts layoff victims' well‐being outcomes including life satisfaction, sleep quality and psychological distress. Integrating psychological contract theory and the conservation...

Hybrid entrepreneurs are individuals who are employees and entrepreneurs at the same time. In their quest to make their businesses successful, they commonly encounter challenges and adversities. This makes entrepreneurial persistence a key factor in the success of hybrid entrepreneurs. Drawing on social cognitive theory, the hybrid entrepreneurship...

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) in Ghana and its associations with individual-level ambidexterity and employees’ service performance. The CAAS International-Form constitutes four sub-scales, each with six items, which measure career concern, career control, career curiosity, and career conf...

This study examines the role of psychological contract violation at a previous organization in explaining employees’ deviant behaviors in a new organization. Drawing on the social-cognitive model of transference, we hypothesize that past psychological contract violation is associated with employees’ present psychological ownership and job insecurit...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the (1) psychometric properties of Crossley and Highhouse's job search strategy scale and (2) the predictive utility of the scale on fit perceptions. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from unemployed job seekers in Ghana ( n T 1 = 720; n T 2 = 418). Exploratory and confirmatory factor a...

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the goal orientation (GO) scale across job search contexts to facilitate its use in large and varied search settings. A sample of 720 job losers and new entrants’ job seekers in Ghana completed the survey. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the three-factor theoretical stru...

Aim To assess the performance of front‐line nurses, who believed they were living out their calling, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Background Although as a profession nursing generally requires high levels of performance, the disruption arising from an infectious disease outbreak increases the work stress and decreases t...

Despite the significant role played by social entrepreneurship in helping to address social problems, entrepreneurship research has focused less on this specific topic. Even fewer researches have examined factors that may influence social entrepreneurial intention. In this chapter, we draw on the motivated information processing theory to explain w...

Statistical information is critical for both government and the general public for monitoring, evaluation, and implementation of employment policies and programmes. This paper revisits the labour market trends between 2012 and 2016 and discusses the importance of job search methods for labour market entry in Ghana. We explored job search methods (F...

This study explores the dimensionality of individualism and collectivism constructs and provides evidence of validity for the Auckland Individualism–Collectivism Scale (AICS) on two separate samples from Hong Kong and Ghana. This study verified the dimensional structures of the AICS and tested the measurement invariance across ages and genders of u...

With the increasing need for dynamism in the world, organizations and researchers have been interested in how employees can easily cope with change and be flexible on the job by using their foreknowledge and still being open to new ideas to boost their work output. Consequently, there has been an increase in research on ambidexterity. However, much...

The ability of individuals to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities is the decisive factor in their decision to pursue entrepreneurship as a career. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of locus of control on opportunity recognition (OR) among aspiring entrepreneurs. With a two-wave survey data of 270 aspiring entrepreneurs...

This paper investigated the influence of hybrid entrepreneurs’ regulatory focus on their proficient, adaptive, and proactive performance in entrepreneurial work. Based on a sample of 272 hybrid entrepreneurs in Ghana, we found that promotion focus and prevention focus had positive and negative relationships with these three types of performance, re...

Occupational stress is ubiquitous at work places and has recently gained numerous researches because of the impact it has on employees’ job performance. Unlike developing and newly industrialized countries, most advanced countries are becoming more familiar with the phenomenon and how to manage it. The current study finds out the level of occupatio...

The study investigated the relationship between achievement motivation, academic self-concept and academic achievement of high school students. In addition, the study found out the students profile to ascertain the levels of achievement motivation, self-concept, and their academic achievement. A total of 120 students selected from four high schools...