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The Impact of Human Resource Management on Organizational Performance: Progress and Prospects
Brian E. Becker,Barry Gerhart +1 more
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In this paper, the authors describe why human resource management (HRM) decisions are likely to have an important and unique influence on organizational performance, and their hope is that this research forum will help advance...Abstract:
We describe why human resource management (HRM) decisions are likely to have an important and unique influence on organizational performance. Our hope is that this research forum will help advance ...read more
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Understanding HRM–Firm Performance Linkages: The Role of the “Strength” of the HRM System
David E. Bowen,Cheri Ostroff +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of the strength of the HRM system and describe the meta-features that result in a strong organizational climate, analogous to Mischel's "strong situation", where individuals share a common interpretation of what behaviors are expected and rewarded.
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The Human Resource Architecture: Toward a Theory of Human Capital Allocation and Development
David P. Lepak,Scott A. Snell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the resource-based view of the firm, human capital theory, and transaction cost economics to develop a human resource architecture of four different employment modes: internal development, acquisition, contracting, and alliance.
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Does Stakeholder Orientation Matter? The Relationship Between Stakeholder Management Models and Firm Financial Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contributed to stakeholder theory development by deriving two distinct stakeholder management models from extant research, and testing the descriptive accuracy of these models, and including important variables from the strategy literature in the tested models.
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On becoming a strategic partner: The role of human resources in gaining competitive advantage
Jay B. Barney,Patrick M. Wright +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the HR executive as a strategic partner in developing and maintaining competitive advantage within the firm is also examined, and why some popularly cited sources of sustainable competitive advantage are not, and what aspects of a firm's human resources can provide a source of sustainability competitive advantage.
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How much do high-performance work practices matter? a meta-analysis of their effects on organizational performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use meta-analysis to estimate the effect size and test whether effects are larger for high performance work practices (HPWPs) versus individual practices, operational versus financial performance measures, and manufacturing versus service organizations.
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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence to address the question: do these human resource management practices improve worker productivity? They constructed their own data base through personal site visits to 26 steel plants which contained one specific steelmaking process, and collected longitudinal data with precise measures on productivity, work practices, and the technology in these production lines.
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The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government
TL;DR: The role of labour and worker representation institutions and policies for human resource development toward a mutual gains labour-management policy building a mutual gain coalition as discussed by the authors, is discussed in detail in Section 2.
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