High‐Performance Work Practices and Job Satisfaction: Gender's Moderating Role

Abstract

To get a more nuanced picture of the effects of high‐performance work practices (HPWPs), this paper analyzes how gender moderates the relationships between HPWPs and job satisfaction. HPWPs are theoretically linked to gender concepts, followed by an empirical analysis of whether these HPWPs have different effects on job satisfaction for men and women. The results of the theoretical analysis highlight that HPWPs are primarily oriented to the male gender concept. The empirical analysis is based on data from the European Working Condition Survey for Germany (N = 1,044). The results show that gender partially acts as a moderator in the relationships between HPWPs and job satisfaction. The study contributes to the literature by providing deeper and differentiated insights into the relationships between HPWPs and job satisfaction by providing a comprehensive theoretical framework for how HPWPs can affect men and women differently and by empirically analyzing the extents of these relationships.