... Hoye, 2014). Keeping the numbers of complaints low is also often a goal in situations where organizations lay off their employees (Richter et al., 2018 ; Wood and Karau, 2009). Thus, signaling theory predicts that organizations will engage in impression management toward parting employees...

... subordinates. It identified frameworks and methods that recognise the role processes play in organisational life through impression management formations. This was done through the use of focus groups and key informant interviews, with managers and workers in forty‐five firms in the manufacturing and service...