Purpose – The paper seeks to analyze in depth the organizational requirements for the exploitation of human resource management towards increased organizational performance, and to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of human resource management in learning organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an extensive literature review on human resource manag...

Through an analysis of the relationship between human resource management (HRM) systems and strategy types, predictions are made about a simultaneous horizontal and vertical fit. In a conceptual model for strategic HRM the key argument is, that the fit between firm strategy and HRM strategy is determined by (matching hypothesis) task characteristics of the strategy type and internally, consiste...

An undeniable shift in focus from traditional production companies to Knowledge-Intensive Firms (KIFs) poses challenges for academics and practioners alike. In particular, effective management of an organization’s human resources has become a critical issue for ensuring sustained innovation capacity. The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) in KIFs is however still a largely une...

Purpose: This study outlines and tests a high commitment model of human resource (HR) practices and its association with outcomes through a path including employee perceptions and attitudes, thereby seeking a new way of opening the so-called ‘black box’ between human resource management (HRM)

The paper titled “HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM” is basically concerned with managing the Administrator of HUMAN RESOURCE Department in a company. A Human Resource Management System (HRMS), refers to the systems and processes at the intersection between human resource management (HRM) and information technology. It merges HRM as a discipline and in particular its basic HR activities and proc...

Synergy is a central tenet of the organizational level approach to human resource management (HRM). However, current theoretic treatments of synergy in the HRM literature are too inspecific to offer much insight about its essential characteristics in HRM systems. To move the treatment of synergy toward greater precision, this paper describes three different theoretic approaches to synergy in HR...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...

Human resources are considered by many to be the most important asset of an organisation, yet very few employers are able to harness the full potential from their employees. Lado and Wilson (1994) define a human resource system as a set of distinct but interrelated activities, functions, and processes that are directed at attracting, developing, and maintaining a firm’s human resources. Traditi...

The paper supports the idea that organizations can institute various internal structures, policies and practices to overcome transfer barriers and facilitate the degree of knowledge transfer. I discuss a framework for future empirical research on the relations between human resource management (HRM) practices and knowledge transfer in multinational corporations (MNC). The proposed model is empi...