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In this article, we compare the effects of ‘high performance human resource management’ (HPHR) on employee and company … performance between Ireland and the Netherlands. Key hypotheses are, first, that companies using the HPHR system exhibit higher … levels of employee and company performance than companies that do not. Second, we expect that these relationships are …
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organizational performance, drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks and using many different methodologies. Trying to shed light on …
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This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locallyowned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational...
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Tight labour markets and changing employment relationships make employees with high levels of firm-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities less dependent on and committed to their employer. Companies need to work harder in order to attract and retain employees and protect their mutual human...
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This paper offers Amartya Sen’s capability approach as a framework for understanding and evaluating Human Resource Development activities in larger organizations, specifically transnational corporations (TNCs). There is a growing literature on international human resource management targeted...
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Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro) economic methodology and insights to the personnel function of companies. It is scientifically fertile and complementary to other disciplinary approaches to personnel issues. Instead of that, an approach without...
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A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article – in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies...
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This study investigates how competencies lead to performance. We propose that salespersons in the Korean pharmaceutical … argue that the level of salesperson competencies is positively related to his/her performance, and that the quality of … leader-member exchange positively moderates the relationship between competencies and performance. Results based on analyses …
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In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources (HR) and performance had traditionally been … conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly … performance at these higher levels. In the present article, I describe the empirical findings of this evolving literature …
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finds remarkable ignorance on behaviour which has no direct relation to performance and on the impacts of specific work and …
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