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...

the information technology has profoundly changed the way organizations are structured as well as the nature and the role of the business divisions. human resource department, as one of the most vital units of any organization has also not been immune from these changes and many of its functions has transformed from traditional techniques to it-based methods. the current research aimed to clari...

This article presents a loss minimization or continuous improvement model for human resource management (HRM). Minimization of losses arising from the interaction of two critical human resource (HR) quality targets, commitment and equity, requires `profound knowledge' of social processes and the development of HR systems. The history of HR can be interpreted as a social continuous improvement p...

The present study investigated how key organizational contextual factors relate to bundles of human resource (HR) practices. In a two-phase study of a sample of 661 organizations representing a full range of industries and organizational size, the authors found that organizations use 1 of 5 HR bundles: cost minimizers, contingent motivators, competitive motivators, resource makers, and commitme...

Since job crafting behaviour is of profound importance for the retention older workers, we examined how organizations can stimulate among workers with opportunity-enhancing Human Resource (HR) practices. We introduced three behaviours: accommodative, utilization, and developmental crafting. hypothesized that HR practices increase psychological empowerment therefore their behaviour. conducted a ...