Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how HR can help an organization to meet its business goals. Design/methodology/approach – Reveals that a UK retail‐marketing agency that set up its HR department five years ago now has HR representation on the board of directors. Explores...

Purpose – The objective of this study is to gain more insight into Malaysian human resource management, in terms of its history and current HR practices. Also, this paper also intends to examine the impact of implementing HR practices on the overall organization's performance based on a sample...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine how the fit between the strategy of business and HRM would affect HRM effectiveness and organizational performance. The paper aimed to find whether a better fit between firm's strategy and HRM strategy would strengthen HRM effectiveness and...

Purpose Drawing on the contingency perspective between business strategies and human resource (HR) practices, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of human resource management (HRM) system (which integrates both content and process of HR practices) on both proximal organisational...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine how the fit between the strategy of business and HRM would affect HRM effectiveness and organizational performance. The paper aimed to find whether a better fit between firm's strategy and HRM strategy would strengthen HRM effectiveness and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the strategic human resources management (HRM) literature from the points of view of both general management and hospitality and tourism. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a critical, qualitative and comparative review of...