Promoting Stewardship among Employees through Systemic Human Resource Practices

Abstract - Stewardship is defined as attitudes and behaviors that place the long-term best interest of the organization ahead of one´ own individual interest. Stewardship behavior is the actual behavior one acts during daily work, which has been tested by various researchers to be positive with organizational performance. So how to promote stewardship behavior of employees becomes a considerable path to increase the organizational performance. This paper reviewed previous literature of stewardship and models of promoting stewardship behavior, and proposed a model based on human resource practices.