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10.18639/MERJ.2026.9900123
Open Access
Jun 03, 2026
Organizations rely heavily on job interviews to select candidates; however, high interview performance does not always translate into effective workplace behavior. This literature review examines reasons for this mismatch through the lenses of Impression Management Theory and Person-Organization (P-O) Fit Theory. Impression Management Theory (IM) explains how candidates strategically present themselves during interviews to create favorable impressions that may not reflect their authentic behaviors. P-O fit theory emphasizes alignment between individual values and organizational culture, suggesting that misalignment can result in workplace behaviors that diverge from interview expectations. The review integrates recent evidence (2020-2025) on digital recruitment, personality traits, and organizational socialization to propose an integrated framework explaining the interview-behavior gap. The findings offer practical insights for improving recruitment accuracy and predicting job performance.
10.18639/MERJ.2026.9900122
Open Access
May 04, 2026
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of organizational innovation strategies on the performance of manufacturing firms in Malawi. A descriptive-explanatory research design was used. The study used a stratified random sampling to draw a sample of 197 manufacturing firms from a population of 388 licensed and registered manufacturing firms. Structured questionnaires were used to collect primary data from the owners and managers of manufacturing firms. Data analysis was conducted using the SPSS software program version 28.0. The study used both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. In the descriptive statistical analysis, frequencies, percentages, mean scores and standard deviation were used. In the inferential statistical analysis, the study used linear regression to examine the effect of organizational innovation strategies on the performance of manufacturing firms in Malawi. The study found that organizational innovation strategies had a positive and significant effect on the performance of manufacturing firms in Malawi. Manufacturing firms that implemented organizational innovation strategies registered a greater performance in terms of sales growth than the manufacturing firms that did not implement organizational innovation strategies. The study recommends that manufacturing firms should implement organizational innovation strategies to increase their performance. They should invest in new organizational methods or significantly improve the existing organizational methods. Manufacturing firms need to invest in new organizational innovations as such innovations help the firms not only to reduce costs but also to increase efficiency, flexibility, firm productivity and customer satisfaction.
10.18639/MERJ.2026.9900121
Open Access
Apr 04, 2026
This paper examines moonlighting, its causes and effects in the workplace among tertiary institutions in Bulawayo and Matebeleland North provinces in Zimbabwe. The study analyses academic institutions to identify the challenges that they encounter in managing employees engaged in moonlighting and seeks to determine the strategies put in place to manage the phenomenon in the workplace. The study is guided by the self-efficacy theory. It utilizes qualitative methods of research in gathering and analyzing the data. The sample size of this study was determined by the level of saturation obtained from the target population and from the workforce from selected tertiary institutions. The study used semi-structured in-depth interviews and key informant interviews; the number of participants was determined by saturation. Thirty employees from the selected institutions were interviewed, and three key informant interviews were conducted. Upon reaching the 30th participant and the 3rd key informant, there was no new information obtained from the field data. Hence, the sample size of the study was 30 participants and 3 key informants. The study finds that environmental factors like the topsy-turvy economic environment of the country, which is characterized by hyperinflation, stagflation, and deflated income, have cultivated job insecurities and the increased cost of living, to be the major cause of the explosion of the moonlighting phenomenon in both the academic institutions studied. Furthermore, personal and behavioral factors like the need to acquire and utilize skills, the need to prove capabilities, lack of growth and promotion opportunities, family responsibility, retirement factors, lack of recognition and motivation in the primary job, sour employer-employee relations, entrepreneurial opportunities and the pressure exerted by diaspora, social factors, the NGO world, intensify moonlighting in the workplace. The effects thereof can be detrimental to both the organization and the individual moonlighters.
