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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"HR practices"”.
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Exploring HR practices to build business model innovation capabilities in the new normal
… model and can change the business model through Business Model Innovation (BMI), as a response to these environmental changes. The business model changes are initiated internally, and through BMI capabilities manage to identify the opportunity, and change the business model accordingly. …
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CEO Implicit Person Theory: Its Effect on Firm Level Outcomes via HR Practices and Leadership Behavior
… a sample of 50 firms representing 50 CEOs, 50 HR managers, and 156 employees. The model was partially supported. The findings and theoretical implications are discussed.
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HR practices, commitment, job performance and early retirement among older employees with an on average low occupational status
… influence of the perception of the quality of HR practices on job performance, commitment and a preference for early retirement among older employees, with an average low occupational status in the creative industry in the Netherlands, This study has adopted a mixed-methods approach, using both …
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How Frontline Managers Implement, and Employees Experience, Commitment HR Practices: The Roles of Individual Attributional Process and Self-Transcendence Values
… of well-configured commitment human resources practices and performance outcomes at multiple levels of an organization is a well-documented in the strategic human resource management (HRM) literature (e.g., Combs, Lui, Hall, and Ketchen, 2006; Kehoe and Wright, 2013). However, several recent …
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Developing HR Practices in public organisations: Investigating the perceptions of internal selection in the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman
… Sultanate of Oman, the research being conducted through an online survey and interviews with employees at different hierarchical levels in MOE.The findings of the study show that perception can be influenced both by social interactions and organisational practices affecting internal selection in …
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The duality of practices and its organizational implications: Adoption of new HR practices and consequences on innovation in Korean firms following the 1997 Asian financial crisis
… from institutional actors to adopt various practices. Much institutional research has offered insights about diffusion processes, decoupling, and adoptions’ implication for organizational legitimacy. However, this vast literature appears to have largely overlooked a parallel set of questions …
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Examining the gap between employees’ expectations and their experience of HR practices in luxury five-star hotels in Thailand. A cross-sector comparison of local hotels, national and international chains hotels
… the organisation and supported by human resource practices. This study examined workforce expectations and experiences of work relationships, job security, WLB, pay and remuneration, PM systems, career promotion, training and development and challenging job roles in luxury five-star hotels in …
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Alternative Human Resources Strategies In China: The Rise Of Temporary Employment Relationships And Their Performance Effects
… employers' strategies to manage the workplace through the use of alternative employment contracts. It consists of three empirical studies. The first study qualitatively explores managers' interpretations of temporary employment contracts. The findings suggest that the use of temporary employment …
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The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract on Human Resource Practices and Employee Retention Relationship: An Employer-Employee Perspective.
… employers can strategize employee retention practices accordingly. In this thesis, practices of the organization (HR practices) are used as contents of the psychological contract of which its importance to the employees and the extent of its fulfilment (psychological contract) is identified, …
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A Study of People Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in China
… the extent to which human resource management (HRM) practices are appIfed in the organisations, and by evaluating the cultural and institutional impacts on human resource '{HR) practices adopted in these firms. Using a survey questionnaire and an in-depth semi-structured interview, an …
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Service Recovery through Empowerment: HRM and Performance in the Hotel Sector
… relationships existing between human resource (HR) practices, management style, employee empowerment and service recovery performance (SRP) in the three to five-star hotel sector in Sri Lanka. Because service recovery refers to how firms respond to service failures, this study focuses on the SRP …
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Experienced high performance work system in the public healthcare sector: Conceptualisation, scale validation and examination of its “dark side"
… need to be addressed. First, human resource (HR) scholars have criticised the HPWS concept as lacking an established definition and consensus about the number of bundles that should be combined to constitute an experienced HPWS measure. Second, there is limited research examining when …
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The HR Consulting Entrepreneur: Firm-Builder, Market-Maker and Diffuser of HR Management Knowledge in an Emergent Business System
The study makes three key contributions: First, in a departure from the standard institutional approaches to the study of management practices transfer, it uses the lenses of two entrepreneurial theories of decision-making in early markets---the effectuation and the nexus of …
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An Examination of the Relationship between Large Shareholders and Commitment Human Resource Systems
<p>Commitment human resource systems (CHRS) are used to elicit an employee's long-term commitment to the firm, and research has shown that CHRS are positively associated with firm performance. Yet, firms appear reluctant to use these HR systems. Large shareholders such as institutional investors …
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Investigating The Impact Of Human Resource Practices On The Experiences Of Nigerian Seafaring Officers: An In-depth Analysis Of The Shipping Industry In Nigeria
… analysis of the prevalent shipping industry practices within the Nigerian setting, exploring the complex effects of human resource practices on the experiences of Nigerian seafaring officers. Taking a pragmatic ontological position supported by a mixed-methods approach, this study combined …
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What do firm boundaries do? : employment relationships and transaction governance in internal and outsourced IT projects
… theories that argue that Human Resource (HR) practices play an important role in how workers are managed. Instead, managers view and treat consultants and employees very similarly. Furthermore, consultants were laid off at a similar rate to employees during a recession. Based on these …
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Explaining the Relationship Between the HR System and Firm Performance: a Test of the Strategic HRM Framework
… between the adoption of "high-commitment" HR practices and organization level performance outcomes (Combs, Lui, Hall & Ketchen, 2006). However, there is considerable variability in the manner in which the HR system construct is conceptualized and measured (Arthur & Boyles, 2007; Delaney & …
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