Immigrants and job satisfaction: Do high performance work systems play a role?

This study focuses on immigrants in Canada and examines their job satisfaction as compared to Canadian-born employees. The authors explore whether high performance work systems (HPWS) affect immigrant employees’ job satisfaction differently than Canadian-born, where HPWS include empowerment, motivation and skill enhancing sub-bundles of practices. The study uses Statistics Canada’s Workplace and Employee Survey, a longitudinal dataset …