Human Resource Flexibility as a Mediating Variable Between High Performance Work Systems and Performance

High-Performance Work Systems and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Role of Internal Social Structure

An empirical examination of the mechanisms mediating between high-performance work systems and the performance of Japanese organizations.

The resource-based view of the firm and social exchange perspectives are invoked to hypothesize linkages among high-performance work systems, collective human capital, the degree of social exchange in an establishment, and establishment performance. The authors argue that high-performance work systems generate a high level of collective human capital and encourage a high degree of social exchan...

The Effect of Strategic Human Resource Manage- Ment on Organizational Performance: the Mediating Role of High-performance Human Resource Practices

This study investigates the impact of a strategic role for human resource management (HRM) on organizational fi nancial performance. Survey data from 118 fi nancial and manufacturing organizations in Jordan is analyzed to investigate a moderated mediated pathway between a strategic role for HRM and organizational fi nancial performance. The fi rst fi nding, that highperformance human resource p...

Understanding high-performance work systems: the joint contribution of economics and human resource management

High-performance work systems (HPWS) are organizations that utilize a fundamentally different approach to managing than the traditional hierarchical approach associated with mass production/scientific management. At the heart of this emerging approach is a radically different employer-employee relationship. Leading organizational behavior specialists believe that HPWS has the greatest potential...

Knowledge as a key in the relationship between high-performance work systems and workforce productivity