Beyond Measuring the Human Resources Management-Organizational Performance Link
Applying Critical Realist Meta-Theory
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8087724 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Anthony Hesketh (Lancaster University, autor correspondente), Steve Fleetwood (Lancaster University) |
| Ano | 2006 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Fascículo | 5 |
| Páginas | 677-699 |
| Data de publicação | 2006-08-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508406067009 |
| OpenAlex | W2144308121 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 8 |
| Referências citadas | 33 |
One response to the possible outsourcing of the human resource (HR) function is to turn to ‘science’ and seek to demonstrate an empirical association between HR practices and increased organizational performance. This paper critically examines the shortcomings of the ‘scientific’ approach by first, reviewing the three distinctive versions of research on the Human Resources Management (HRM)-Performance link in an attempt to demonstrate their commitment to a common ‘scientific’ meta-theory. Second, we use critical realism to demonstrate: (1) that theoretical underdevelopment and lack of explanatory power are encouraged by the use of an inappropriate ‘scientific’ meta-theory; (2) the possibility of meta-theorizing the causal connection between HRM and performance without seeking statistical associations; and (3) how all this is in-keeping with Institutional theory. Finally, all of this is achieved by inserting evidence from interviews with HR professionals to demonstrate not only that they are sceptical of the ‘scientific’ approach, but also that they hold views of the world not dissimilar to the critical realist approach we advocate
Business · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Economics · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Function (biology · Human resource management · Knowledge management · Management · Meta-analysis · Outsourcing · Realism · Resource dependence theory · Resource-Based View · Skepticism · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Marketing
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Inhabiting Institutions
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Beyond the enterprise
The development of the new assistant practitioner role in the English National Health Service
Economics and Reality
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Structuration Theory
What Are Institutions?
Linking Competitive Strategies with Human Resource Management Practices
Modes of Theorizing in Strategic Human Resource Management
Commonalities and contradictions in HRM and performance research
Organization, Trust and Control
The Impact of Human Resource Management on Organizational Performance
Peripheral Vision
The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Turnover, Productivity, and Corporate Financial Performance.
Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
Realist Social Theory
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Realism and Social Science
Causal Laws, Functional Relations and Tendencies
The romance of human resource management and business performance, and the case for big science
Explaining Society
Employees and High-Performance Work Systems
Human Resource Bundles and Manufacturing Performance
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,53 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 8 |