HRM and Performance: Achievements and Challenges


By <link people jaap-paauwe>Jaap Paauwe, David E. Guest, Patrick Wright | Publication Date: February 2013

The link between HRM and performance has become an important policy issue at both a national and a corporate level.

HRM and Performance draws on the knowledge and expertise of a number of leading international scholars in the field of HRM to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of HRM and identify fruitful directions for theory, research and practice. A central question throughout is - what's next for HRM and what are the keys to the future of managing people and performance?

Chapters

Chapter 1 HRM and Performance: What Do We Know and Where Should We Go? - Jaap Paauwe, Patrick Wright and David Guest

Chapter 2 HRM, Well-Being and Performance: A Theoretical and Empirical Review - Riccardo Peccei, Karina van de Voorde and Marc van Veldhoven

Chapter 3 Building Highly-performing Work Systems: Analysing HR Systems and Their Contribution to Performance 
Peter Boxall

Chapter 4 Reconceptualizing Fit in Strategic Human Resource Management: ‘Lost in Translation?’ - Jaap Paauwe, Corine Boon, Paul Boselie and Deanne den Hartog

Chapter 5 HRM and Performance: The Role of Effective Implementation - David Guest and Anna Bos-Nehles

Chapter 6 Strategic HRM and Organizational Behaviour: Integrating Multiple Levels of Analysis - Patrick Wright and Lisa Nishii

Chapter 7 Measuring Human Capital: A Strategic Human Resource Management Perspective - Gary C. McMahan and Christopher M. Harris

Chapter 8 Measurement of Human Resource Practices: Issues Regarding Scale, Scope, Source and Substantive Content - Angela Langevin-Heavey, Susanne Beijer, Jessica Federman, Michel Hermans, Felice Klein, Elizabeth McClean and Brian Martinson

Chapter 9 Research on Human Resources and Effectiveness: Some Methodological Challenges - Barry Gerhart

Chapter 10 Progress and Prospects for HRM–Performance Research in Small and Medium-sized Business - Sophie de Winne and Luc Sels

Chapter 11 Progress and Prospects - David Guest, Patrick Wright and Jaap Paauwe

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