A study on high-performance work systems (HPWS) has shown that there may be a gap in the relationship between HPWS and employee work performance. The reasons that are implied within such a relationship have, however, rarely been studied. Data from target employees are gathered using a census...

Previous studies regarding high-performance work system (HPWS)-performance relationship have been conducted at organizational level of analysis, thus highlighted management perspective of this relationship. Furthermore, the widely acknowledged ‘black-box’ debate in this area invites...