HRM and Performance - Achieving Long Term Viability

Jaap Paauwe

June 17, 2004

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. HRM and Strategy: Does it Matter?
3. Human Resource Management in its Context: An Institutional Approach
4. A Multidimensional Perspective on Performance
5. The Contextually-Based Human Resource Theory
6. The Contextually-Based Human Resource Theory in Practice
7. Contrasting Metal and IT Sectors: Internal Versus External Regulation of Flexibility
8. Continuing Divergence of HRM Practices: The Case of the United States and the Netherlands
9. Changing HR Roles: Towards a Real Balanced HRM Scorecard
Epilogue