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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"HRM practices"”.
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The Relationship between HRM Practices and Innovation: Perceptions of Employees in the Telecommunications Industry in Jordan
… relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and innovation. This research responds to calls in the literature on HRM and innovation to consider a wider number of HRM practices that have previously been neglected and are likely to produce a positive impact on innovation …
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Are HRM practices related with patient mortality in NHS hospitals?:A study examining the underlying reasons for such an association
… in the UK that examined the association between HRM practices related to training and appraisal with health outcomes within NHS Trusts. Study one represents the organisational analysis of 61 NHS Trusts, and will report training and appraisal practices were significantly associated with lower …
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Unraveling the effects of workforce diversity on firm performance: The role of HRM practices in large U.S. corporate law firms
… – the use of human resource management (HRM) practices. This study examines when (under which conditions) and how the salience of positive or negative diversity effects may be affected (be either enhanced or limited) and in turn manifest in overall performance outcomes when an …
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Human Resource management practices in small organisations in the event and exhibition industry in Cape Town, and how these practices contribute to organisational performance
… aims to explore how human resource management (HRM) practices are implemented in small organisations in the event and exhibition industry in Cape Town, and to examine to what extent these practices influence these organisations' organisational performance. The researcher followed a qualitative …
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RELIGION, CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF ISLAM AND SAUDI CULTURE ON HRM PRACTICES OF INDIGENOUS AND FOREIGN OWNED AND MANAGED CORPORATIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA
… at large, and how these influence and shape HRM practices and the employment relationship in the country. Designed as a single country case study, the dissertation uses a multi-case research design where two large companies operating in Saudi Arabia (an indigenous and a foreign multinational …
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Linking human resource management strategy to organizational performance: a better understanding of high-performance work practices in higher education
A model of Human Resource Management (HRM) was presented by Guest (1987) as a new approach to management of personnel matters in which HRM strategy informs HRM practices, and both result in beneficial Human Resources (HR) outcomes, such as employee engagement. The notion underlying this model is …
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Developing embedded human resource management practices in sino-foreign joint ventures: the Chinese perspective
One of the critical debates in IHRM concerns the influence of globalisation and multinational enterprises on convergence in HRM practices. In this context, much of the literature on HRM policies and practices in Sino-foreign joint ventures (SFJVs) has been written either from this …
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A secret ingredient for SMEs performance: Human resource management in cafés and restaurants in Auckland and Waikato, New Zealand
… in terms of human resource management (HRM) practices, particularly in café and restaurant businesses. This research has investigated the associations between entrepreneurship, HRM, and firm performance in the context of café and restaurant businesses in the Auckland and Waikato regions …
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The relationship between high commitment management and employee attitudes and behaviours: the role of psychological contract fulfilment and justice
… of high commitment human resource management (HRM) practices is widely believed to affect employee skills and motivation, and lead to a strategic advantage for the organisation. However, whilst there is now an abundant amount of evidence to indicate that high commitment HRM practices are …
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Strategic human resource management and organisational performance : a study of the university administrators in Cyprus
… a better understanding is needed of the role of HRM in creating better organisational performance. Although, human resource management practices have continued to be the focus of strategic HRM research (Combs et al., 2006), human capital has received little attention (Takeuchi et al., 2007), and …
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An exploratory study of human resource management and business strategy in multiunit restaurant firms
… explore the nature of human resource management (HRM) functional activities in the multiunit restaurant firms, focusing at the unit restaurant managers level. The second objective is to investigate the relationship between the firm's business strategy and its HRM practices. This study addresses …
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Contextual influences on HRM homogeneity and heterogeneity in SMEs : a case study of high value-added and low value-added sectors
… Investors in People standard) that formalised HRM practices in SMEs in high value-added sectors make them more competitive than those in low value-added sectors, which are frequently associated with informal HRM practices. The research compared the selection and recruitment, training and …
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Ethical Human Resource Management and Employee Welfare: Empirical Perspectives from the Bangladeshi RMG Sector
… and working conditions in relation to ethical HRM practices from the employees’ perspective in the Bangladeshi Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector. This research is inspired by the need to understand the challenges that employees face in their practical work settings and the unfair Human Resource …
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Ethical Human Resource Management and Employee Welfare: Empirical Perspectives from the Bangladeshi RMG Sector
… and working conditions in relation to ethical HRM practices from the employees’ perspective in the Bangladeshi Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector. This research is inspired by the need to understand the challenges that employees face in their practical work settings and the unfair Human Resource …
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The impact of high performance work systems in Irish companies: an examination of company and employee outcomes
… perceptions of human resource management (HRM) practices and their impact on employee innovative work behaviour (IWB), organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), and tenure intentions. Specifically, the study also measures whether employees’ perceptions of job demands mediate the …
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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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Achieving High Performance in Local Government: Linking Government Outcomes with Human Resource Management Practices
Historically public sector personnel policies and practices have been targets of reform. These reforms consisted of transferring private sector techniques to a public sector perceived to be more bureaucratic and less efficient. Private sector research is replete with evidence of a connection …
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Analysing the challenges for employee performance improvement – the case of commercial banks in Pakistan.
… improvement by considering a strategic role of HRM in commercial banking sector of Pakistan. The study employed mixed research design and the data were collected from survey and interviews. The population of the study was based on managers and employees from the banking sector of Pakistan. It …
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An investigation into the link between Human Resource Management practices and service-orientated behaviour in South African service organisations
… through high quality human resource management practices. This study aims to investigate the link between human resource management (HRM) practices in service organisations in South Africa and the service-orientated behaviour of frontline employees and the role played by organisational …
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A Stakeholder Perspective On Hrm-Performance Linkages
I apply a stakeholder perspective to SHRM and propose that the extent to which stakeholder interests are considered in the design and deployment of HRM processes is positively related to these practices' contribution to building required organizational capabilities. I distinguished between internal …
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