Roberto Luna-Arocas

University of Valencia | UV · Department of Business Administration

Purpose The key aspect of this study is the mediating role of innovation in the relationship between talent management (TM) and organizational performance (OP). Design/methodology/approach A structural equation model with AMOS software is used to gauge the impact of TM on innovation and OP. In this regard, innovation is the mediating variable of t...

What has been called the war for talent in companies has become a key element in organizations that want to be competitive. Talent management has already been studied and verified in terms of its impact on performance and productivity, and this has led to more and more research generating a professional and scientific interest with other variables,...

Desde hace ya unas décadas, se está trabajando con profundidad en la investigación científica sobre la evidencia en las empresas de la gestión del talento. A nivel profesional, ya han sido muchas organizaciones las que han dado el salto cualitativo hacia una nueva manera de enfocar los recursos humanos (RR. HH.). Principalmente porque esta nueva pe...

Do you have a talent mindset? In every company there must be professionals capable of recognizing the talent in their organization. This is essential: if the value of people is not recognized, it is impossible to manage it. And if it is not managed, it ends up being lost. Roberto Luna has worked in the field of human resources and talent manageme...

The present study examines the relationship between wellbeing and work performance in a twotime model. The model was based on the happy-productive worker hypothesis. Labour wellbeing (Time 1, T1) was measured with three constructs: job satisfaction, personal satisfaction, and organizational commitment, and showed good one dimensional adjustment in...

Talent management (TM) is a fundamental issue for both private and public sector companies. This study analyzes the impact of TM on service performance (SP) and the mediating role of affective organizational commitment (AOC). We analyze a sample of 104 local government employees with three measures of TM, AOC and SP. The mediation hypothesis of AOC...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to better understand the role of pay satisfaction and employee perception of talent management in business loyalty strategies, which implies considering both economic and non-economic variables in order to achieve organizational success. Design/methodology/approach Results from a survey of 198 workers were anal...

Monetary Intelligence Theory asserts that individuals apply their money attitude to frame critical concerns in the context and strategically select certain options to achieve financial goals and ultimate happiness. This study explores the bright side of Monetary Intelligence and behavioral economics, frames money attitude in the context of pay and...

Monetary intelligence theory asserts that individuals apply their money attitude to frame critical concerns in the context and strategically select certain options to achieve financial goals and ultimate happiness. This study explores the dark side of monetary Intelligence and behavioral economics—dishonesty (corruption). Dishonesty, a risky prospe...

Desde un punto de vista moderno y práctico, lleno de ejemplos profesionales y casos, y con un lenguaje divulgativo, este libro pretende actualizar a los empresarios, directivos, mandos y profesionales sobre el arte y ciencia de la dirección de personas. La principal novedad de este libro es que basa su contenido en el concepto más actual y potente...

Published in print http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2100-4 We develop a theoretical model of income and pay comparison satisfaction with two mediators (love of money and pay comparison standards), examine the direct and the indirect paths of our model, and treat culture (the US vs. Spain) as a moder...

This study advances and tests four interlinked hypotheses explicating the relationship between talent mindset competency, job satisfaction and job performance. Talent mindset competency is dimensionalised as: (a) value and goal alignment with the organisation, (b) manager's talent mindset, (c) talent application in everyday behaviours, (d) autonomy...

El objetivo fundamental del presente artículo es identificar los factores motivadores del trabajo entre los futuros directivos y trabajadores y reflexionar desde un punto de vista tanto académico como profesional sobre la importancia del dinero como factor motivador. Para ello hemos tomado a estudiantes universitarios en su faceta de futuros trabaj...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2012.00533.x/abstract Research suggests that materialism leads to the dark side of the finan-cial dream. In this study, we treat love of money as a mediator and test a theoretical model's direct path (Materialism to Financial Satisfaction) and indirect path (Materialism to Love of Money to Fin...

In this study, we develop a theory of Monetary Intelligence, and explore satisfaction with pay and life from the virtuous money smart perspective: In order to enjoy high pay satisfaction and life satisfaction, money smart individuals must become good stewards and curb their love-of-money motive. We collect data from 6,586 managers in 32 geopolitica...

Recently, a number of studies have tried to examine the processes that explain the influence of high performance work systems (HPWS) on company performance, in an attempt to understand which variables mediate this relationship and to what extent they do so. The importance of the organizational learning capability (OLC) construct has traditionally b...

Talent management is a new concept in the scientific literature, but not in the practitioner arena. In this sense, this chapter underlines the powerful perspective of talent management integrating practices from organizations and providing a scientific approach. Some previous results from different research are expressed in relation to strategy and...

By incorporating pay satisfaction at Level 1 and Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) at Level 2, we investigated the relationship between the love of money and self-reported corrupt intent among 6,382 managers in 31 geopolitical entities across six continents. Our significant cross-level three-way interaction effect showed that for managers with hig...

El presente artículo persigue realizar una aproximación al proceso de aprendizaje de los emprendedores dentro de un contexto universitario. Con tal fin, se llevó a cabo una investigación cualitativa mediante la mediante la realización de entrevistas en profundidad a los principales colectivos implicados: estudiantes universitarios, emprendedores, p...

During the past two decades the chain of three links organizational strategy – human resources practices – organizational performance has been deeply analysed. However, the mediator role of organizational structure in the first link of this chain remains relatively uninvestigated. In this article we analyse a model of relationships among organizati...

During the last two decades the relationship between organizational strategy and human resources practices has been deeply analyzed. However, the mediator role of organizational structure in this relationship remains relatively uninvestigated. In this article we analyze a model of relationships among organizational strategy, organizational structur...

Durante las tres últimas décadas la relación entre la estrategia competitiva y las prácticas de recursos humanos ha sido estudiada en profundidad. Sin embargo, el papel mediador de la estructura organizativa en esta relación ha sido relativamente poco considerado por el entorno académico. En este artículo analizamos un modelo de relaciones entre la...

Nowadays, consumer behavior is being more sophisticated and complex than before. In this study, I attempt to analyze the relationship between impulse buying (consumer’s emotional side of the consumption) and an individual’s self-discrepancy (the difference between what one is and what one would like to be). I propose that a consumer uses impulse bu...

Purpose - This paper aims to clarify the relationship between human resource practices and staff retention by selecting three high performance work practices (precursors) and one outcome variable (turnover intentions), and trying to demonstrate the mediator role of employee commitment and job satisfaction in this relationship. Design/methodology/ap...

El presente trabajo analiza la importancia que la retribución tiene para los trabajadores y su relación con una serie de factores motivacionales. Los resultados se obtienen de una muestra de 681 alumnos de los tres países donde se han analizado sus respuestas en función de una serie de factores sociodemográficos y de donde se pueden extraer conclus...

Roberto.Luna@uv.es Joaquin.Camps@uv.es El principal objetivo de esta investigación es analizar diferentes configuraciones de prácticas de recursos humanos (RH) que se dan en una muestra de 183 empresas españolas. A continuación se relacionan estas configuraciones con las estrategias competitivas de las empresas con el fin de validar la estructura c...

Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for cross-cultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Satisfactio...

Tras la entrada con fuerza del enfoque estratégico en el área de recursos humanos (en lo que se ha venido a denominar en castellano Dirección Estratégica de Recursos Humanos), el mundo académico inició hace veinte años un esfuerzo significativo para intentar justificar teóricamente la importancia del factor humano en la organización. A este esfuerz...

abstract Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for cross-cultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Sa...

La presente investigación tiene como objetivoprioritario ahondar en el conocimiento sobre la tipologíae intensidad del uso en las empresas españolas de lasdenominadas Prácticas de Alto Rendimiento de recursoshumanos. Para llevar a término este análisis se utilizóuna metodología multivariada sobre una muestra de184 empresas pertenecientes a la asoci...

This research examines the motivation profiles of 218 consumers at a sport center in Valencia, Spain. We employed the Motivation in Sport Scale (MISS–Sport Center) with the following eight motives (factors): Positive Affect, Social Contact, Physical Exercise, Coping Strategy, Challenge, Body Image, Competition, and Entertainment. There were signifi...

Purpose – To develop money profiles based on money attitudes and investigate differences in work-related attitudes across money profiles. Design/methodology/approach – Data from 564 university students in the USA were collected and four money profiles based on the Love of Money Scale (LOMS) were identified using cluster analysis. Findings – Achievi...

This study examined a mediating model of income and pay satisfaction with a direct path (income → pay satisfaction) and an indirect path with two mediators (income → the love of money → pay equity comparison → pay satisfaction). Results of the whole sample showed that the indirect path was significant and the direct path was insignificant. When the...

This study examined a mediating model of income and pay satisfaction with a direct path (income → pay satisfaction) and an indirect path with two mediators (income → the love of money → pay equity comparison → pay satisfaction). Results of the whole sample showed that the indirect path was significant and the direct path was insignificant. When the...

This research examines the love of money as a moderator and as a mediator of the self-reported income-pay satisfaction relationship among university professors (lecturers). Hierarchical multiple regression results showed that the interaction effect between self-reported income and the Love of Money on pay satisfaction was significant. For high Love...

Bajo la perspectiva del hombre complejo suscitada por Chiavenato (2000) se plasma la necesidad de analizar las motivaciones de los empleados de modo diferencial a como clásicamente se ha venido analizando con los modelos teóricos tradicionales. En este sentido, la vinculación de los motivos, así como su combinación en perfiles motivacionales (Chiav...

This study tests the hypothesis that the love of money is a moderator of the income-pay satisfaction relationship. The consistency of the pay level-pay satisfaction relationship is probably the most robust (though hardly surprising) finding regarding the causes of pay satisfaction. Actual pay level (i.e., income) is consistently and positively rela...

This study examines the love of money and work-related attitudes and identifies four money profiles based on a sample of citizens in the Republic of Macedonia. Achieving Money Worshipers (the highest scores on Factors Success, Motivator, and Budget and the lowest on Evil) had the highest active involvement in work activities. Careless Money Admirer...

This study tests the hypothesis that university professors (lecturers) (in the U.S. and Spain) with different money profiles (based on Factors Success, Budget, Motivator, Equity, and Evil of the Love of Money Scale) will differ in work-related attitudes and satisfaction. Results suggested that Achieving Money Worshipers (with high scores on Factors...

This research examines the love of money as a moderator and as a mediator of the self-reported income-pay satisfaction relationship among university professors (lecturers). Hierarchical multiple regression results showed that the interaction effect between self-reported income and the love of money on pay satisfaction was significant. For high-love...

Resumen La ética organizativa es cada vez más un tema de importancia para las organizaciones. Sin embargo, aun es una disciplina incipiente. Por todo ello, se presenta un estudio empírico que analiza probabilidades de comportamientos no éticos en las organizaciones. El cuestionario de comportamiento ético organizativo mide bajo diferentes escenario...

The magnitude and complexity reached by the phenomenon of the consumption is one of the aspects typical of the contemporary society. As attends to needs of autorrealización, the consumption becomes increasingly personal, autonomous and unpredictable. On the other hand, the advertising directs for promote the unthinking acquisition of goods and serv...

This research examines the money ethic scale (budget, evil, equity, success, and motivator), self-reported income, demographic variables, and life satisfaction among 207 professors in the USA and 102 professors in Spain. Results suggested that the female/male income ratio was 70.95 percent for American professors and 63.82 percent for Spanish profe...

The European Union proposes a potential social identity that Spain and Portugal wish to have as part and parcel of their process of modernisation and economic growth. The Euro is the symbol of this desire. As this study shows, in the process of changing to the new currency the pro-European attitudes are far more advanced than any real information c...

The aim of this paper is to provide essential background material relating to the accompanying papers in this special issue. It presents a brief description of the `Psychology of the European Monetary Union' project. This involved a questionnaire study of attitudes towards the euro, which was fielded in each of the 15 member states of the European...

In recent years there is a new trend researching impulsive and compulsive buying in consumption. Although there has been literature from 1940, this topic has been continuously misunderstood by the scientifics, mainly because their applied and business perspective. It is our effort to understand and formulate a new model, the structural and function...

A study of 207 faculty at a state university in the southeastern United States and 102 faculty members at the University of Valencia (Spain) examined demographic variables and attitudes toward money, income, and life satisfaction. Demographic variables (sex, age, education, marital status, race, current job experience, total work experience, and nu...

During the last two decades the relationship between organizational stra- tegy and human resources practices has been deeply analyzed. However, the mediator role of

Roberto.Luna@uv.es La motivación de logro ha sido considerada en los últimos años como una variable clave para el éxito empresarial. De hecho se ha relacionado con sujetos emprendedores, con características de mando y que son capaces de afrontar problemas de modo realista y efectivo. En el presente estudio se utiliza una escala de motivación de log...