Administrative Error Control: The Role of Value-Based HR Practices, I-Deals, and Organizational Politics

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Value-based HR practices, which cultivate public values in public employees, may activate employee’s upward negotiations with the employer to go beyond administrative norms and constraints. The primary research aim is to assess the role of value-based HR practices in fostering idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) among public employees, which in turn contribute to the effectiveness of administrative error control. The research also investigates whether organizational politics undermines the momentum of i-deals in public employees. The source of data for the research includes the responses from public employees and their direct supervisors from People’s Committees of Wards—the grassroots level of government—in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The data were then analyzed using structural equation modeling. Through the research findings, the effect chain from value-based HR practices through i-deals to administrative error control was confirmed. The negative effect of organizational politics on i-deals was also grounded in the data analysis.

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Luu Trong Tuan

Luu Trong Tuan ([email protected]) is currently a Business Administration (BA) Lecturer at Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Hereceived his medical doctor degree from University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,master’s degree from Victoria University, Australia, and PhD in management from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. His research interests include organizational behavior, human resource management, business ethics, public management, and healthcare management. He has published in numerous journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, Public Management Review, Personnel Review, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, International Journal of Logistics Management, Management Decision, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Journal of Strategic Marketing, and Marketing Intelligence & Planning.