The Impact of Human Resource Management on Organizational Performance: Progress and Prospects
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...The resource-based view has prompted recent work on how HRM practices contribute to firm performance by leveraging human capital, discretionary effort, and desired attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Becker & Gerhart, 1996; Lado & Wilson, 1994; Wright et al., 1994)....
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...The configural approach examines how a pattern of numerous HRM practices is related to firm performance so that the total effect of HRM is greater than the sum of the individual practices themselves (Becker & Gerhart, 1996; Delery & Doty, 1996; Ichniowski, Shaw, & Prennushi, 1997)....
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...…much has been written on the importance of designing an HRM system with practices that complement one another and fit together as a whole in achieving the organization’s goals (e.g., Becker & Gerhart, 1996; Delery & Doty, 1996; Schuler & Jackson, 1995; Wright & McMahan, 1992; Wright & Snell, 1991)....
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...However, varying sample characteristics, research designs, practices examined, and performance measures used has led extant findings to vary dramatically, making the size of the overall effect difficult to estimate ( Becker & Gerhart, 1996; Ferris et al., 1999; Wood, 1999)....
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...However, because there is not unanimity among SHRM researchers as to which practices are HPWPs (Becker & Gerhart, 1996), we eliminated nine practices from consideration that appeared in fewer than five studies....
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...We then culled the reference sections of each of the identified studies as well as six reviews of the SHRM literature (i.e., Becker & Gerhart, 1996; Becker & Huselid, 1998; Ferris et al., 1999; Wood, 1999; Wright & Boswell, 2002; Wright, Gardner, Moynihan, & Allen, 2005)....
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...As Becker and Gerhart (1996) point out, there is little consensus concerning what is, versus what is not, a HPWP....
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...Several conclude that published research provides support for the notion that HPWPs positively affect organizational performance (e.g., Becker & Huselid, 1998; Becker & Gerhart, 1996; Wright & Boswell, 2002)....
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...Why might it be especially difficult to imitate human resource strategies that are deeply embedded in an organization? Two of the key factors are causal ambiguity and path dependency (Barney, 1991; Collis & Montgomery, 1995)....
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...There is clearly a need to fill in this gap at the business-unit level and to pay attention not only to traditional financial outcomes, but also to intermediate and process-related criteria that indicate how financial results are achieved (see, for example, Kaplan and Norton's [1992] "balanced scorecard" approach)....
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...Huselid and Becker (1996) illustrated this point....
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...Although studies that use the firm as the exclusive unit of analysis provide the most generalizable and direct test of the relationship between HR and firm financial performance (Huselid, 1995; Huselid & Becker, 1996), to date they have provided little insight into the process by which this value is created....
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...Source: Huselid and Becker (1995)....
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...The conceptual and empirical work relevant to this question has progressed far enough to suggest that the role of human resources can be crucial (Arthur, 1994; Cutcher-Gershenfeld, 1991; Huselid, 1995; Huselid & Becker, 1996; Gerhart & Milkovich, 1990; Ichniowski, Shaw, & Prennushi, 1994; MacDuffie, 1995)....
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...This idea, that a system of HR practices may be more (or less) than the sum of the parts, appears in discussions of synergy, external and internal fit, bundles, holistic approaches, configurations, contingency factors, and so forth (Amit & Shoemaker, 1993; Delery & Doty, this issue; Doty, Glick, & Huber, 1993; Dyer & Reeves, 1995; Gerhart, Trevor, & Graham, 1996; Huselid, 1995; LegnickHall & Legnick-Hall, 1988; Meyer, Tsui, & Hinings, 1993; Milgrom & Roberts, 1995)....
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