) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …

Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …

knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly assume that HR … professionals must be fully versant about external business realities that directly or indirectly influence how to apply that … knowledge. We examine four of the most central categories of external business knowledge: advancements in technology, the causes …

This paper argues for broadening the application of hysteresis to institutions, policy lockin, psychology, identity …