Research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997), Paauwe and Richardson (1997) and Boselie et al. (2001), suggests significant impact of Human Resources Management (HRM) on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the last decade, especially in the United States (e.g. Osterman, 1994; Huselid, 1995; MacDuffie, 1995). The question arises whether the domination of USA oriented models, however appropriate...

This study defines SHRM as employee/business performance relationship. Employee performance has an impact on performance of business departments in this model; and, performance of business departments have an impact on firm performance. In addition, American model of SHRM defines SHRM with HR...

Managing performance is quite easy, but sustaining that performance is the real challenge for organizations in the 21st century. Hence, the research’s main objective is to examine the impact of high-performance work system on sustainable organizational success in small and medium business...

For more than ten years, a great deal has been written about the key role that human resources can play in acquiring a competitive advantage. HRM activities would become strategic if the organization's philosophy, policies, programs, practices, HRM processes and strategic needs were...

The main objective of research paper is to assess the “Impact of High Performance Work System (HPWS) on Organizational Performance (OP) in Banking Sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmir”. It has been well proven from existing body of knowledge that a well devised HPWS is one of the factors which...

While research has focused primarily on stars as individual contributors, we examine organizational situations where stars must work closely with non-stars. We argue that, in such situations, building teamwork around a star is an exercise in learning under complexity. In response, organizations...

Key performance ratios indicate the underlying level of performance and health of the enterprise. Therefore, understanding the components of the final accounts and their performance ratios is important because of the crucial nature of ROE. Even though PRA represents one of the best ways to...

This study was designed to explore the relationship between team performance management and organizational performance, because performance in terms of team efficiency and profitability is fundamental to business sustainability. Team performance management is a top management responsibility...

In an RCT, a large retail chain’s CEO sets new goals for the managers of the treated stores by asking them “to do what they can” to reduce the employee quit rate. The treatment decreases the quit rate by a fifth to a quarter, lasting nine months before petering out, but reappearing after a...