The authors use British workplace data for 1980-98 to examine whether increased human resource management (HRM) practices coincided with union decline, consistent with the hypothesis that such practices act as a substitute for unionization. Two initial analyses show no important differences between union and non-union sectors or between newer workplaces (which are likelier to be non-union) and ...

The role of human resource management function is at the crossroad, and on the one hand it is facing the crisis whereas there also exists an unprecedented opportunity to redefine and refocus the HRM function to leverage its credibility in organization. In Oman, HRM is in its infancy and there is a need to strengthen its discourse and learning. The present paper attempts to understand the dynami...

A RESOURCE-BASED PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN CAPITAL LOSSES, HRM INVESTMENTS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE JASON D. SHAW,* TAE-YOUN PARK, and EUGENE KIM 1 Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. 2 Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. 3 Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlant...

prior research has indicated that employee turnover is detrimental to both individuals and organisations. because a turnover intention in the workplace is detrimental, several factors have been suggested to better understand the reasons why employees may decide to leave their organisations. some of the organizational-related factors that have been considered by previous research include perceiv...

In the past few decades, researchers have witnessed a paradigm shift in Human Resource Management-from individual performance to organizational outcomes with the role of Human resource (HR) managers becoming increasingly significant to the organization. In such a context, it is important to examine HR practices from a strategic perspective on the sustained competitive advantage (SCA) of the org...

Critics have argued that the field of human resource management (HRM) lacks a coherent theoretical framework. This article attempts to further the theoretical development of SHRM through discussing six theoretical models (behavioral perspective, cybernetic models, agency/transaction cost theory, resource-based view of the firm, power/resource dependence models, and institutional theory) that ar...

Using data on a large sample of electronics firms in seven large states from a newly developed employer-employee matched database (Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics, LEHD), we examine the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices and technology on worker productivity. Motivated by extensive site visit research in the semiconductor industry in which we observe the interaction of...

The focus of this research is to determine how human resource practices impact the telecom industry in Odisha. It evaluates and analyses influence current management strategies on employee performance, including selection, training, career planning, compensation, performance appraisal, job description, participation. For study, 120 people were chosen at random from seven different industries, w...

 The use of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in the form of ‘bundles’ and in integration with the business strategy of the organisation have been emphasised throughout the HRM literature. These are called the horizontal integration and vertical integration respectively. This article aim at examining the use of these practices in liner shipping industry in which human element plays a vi...