中小企业人力资源部门边缘化的现象与本质分析

在人力资源管理日益重要的今天,一些中小企业却出现了人力资源部门边缘化的现象,主要表现为企业不单独设置人力资源部门或部门作用弱化,很少甚至没有专职从事人力资源管理工作的员工。但本文的研究发现,中小企业人力资源部门的边缘化并非人力资源管理地位的边缘化,与此相反,人力资源管理在企业管理中发挥了更为重要的作用。这是企业人力资源管理职能的进一步发展,需要用战略性人力资源管理的新思维。     

中小企业人力资源外包SWOT分析及实施对策

人力资源外包作为企业充分整合内外资源、优化资源配置的新型管理模式,能有效的促进企业将有限的人力资源发挥到最大效益。根据SWOT分析法的思想,对中小企业人力资源外包存在的内部优势与劣势、外部机遇与挑战进行了深入的分析。为了保证外包实施的有效性,从外包前准备阶段、外包实施阶段和外包评价与反馈阶段三个方面提出了相应的实施对策。人力资源外包虽然可以为中小企业带来诸多益处,但是其存在的不利影响同样值得注意,为了外包能达到预期的效果,发包企业必须对整个外包过程进行精心规划,每个阶段都有不同的任务,对每个阶段主要任务的分析是提出相应对策的关键。     

中小企业人力资源部门边缘化的现象与本质分析

在人力资源管理日益重要的今天,一些中小企业却出现了人力资源部门边缘化的现象,主要表现为企业不单独设置人力资源部门或部门作用弱化,很少甚至没有专职从事人力资源管理工作的员工。但本文的研究发现,中小企业人力资源部门的边缘化并非人力资源管理地位的边缘化,与此相反,人力资源管理在企业管理中发挥了更为重要的作用。这是企业人力资源管理职能的进一步发展,需要用战略性人力资源管理的新思维。     

Business Strategy,HRM Practices and Organizational Performance: A Study of the Indian Software Industry

ABSTRACT

Human resources and human resources management system create competitive advantage in today's global market economy that provides wider access to technology, finance and other resources. HRM research has set a new trend with its linkage process with business strategy and organizational performance to find a place for the profession and add value to the organization. This paper intends to unveil the business strategic models, HRM practices and organizational performance in Indian software companies. The study has found that there is a significant difference among HR practices in software companies in India based on Miles and Snow's strategic types, viz., prospectors, defenders, analyzers and reactors. Although reactors showed their difference from other strategic types, no significant difference was found among three proactive strategic types, viz. prospector, defender and analyzer. With regard to performance analysis, it was found that prospectors have a comparative advantage over other strategic types in almost all performance parameters. Although incentives and stock options have a greater overall impact on performance parameters, there is a lot of difference among factors that influence organizational effectiveness in three proactive strategic types.     

Training investment and organizational outcomes: a moderated mediation model of employee outcomes and strategic orientation of the HR function

Using a predictive research design with data collected at three different time points over a four-year period from 277 firms in South Korea, we investigated how and when investment in employee training leads to improved organizational outcomes. The results showed that employee commitment and competence mediated the relationship between training investment and organizational outcomes. The moderated mediation analyses further revealed that the mediated relationship between training investment and organizational outcomes via employee commitment and competence was stronger when the human resources (HR) function within an organization was highly strategically oriented. Based on the results, implications for strategic HR research and practice were provided.     

On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees

This article explores the relationship between employment status (agency workers vs. permanent employees) and affective and normative job and co-worker commitment. Our study was conducted on employees from four metal companies in the Netherlands. As HRM practices seem to influence employee commitment, we performed 89 interviews across all four companies and included blue-collar workers, their managers (direct supervisors, HR managers and production managers), as well as works council members. To test our hypotheses on commitment differences, we conducted quantitative research within the companies (permanent employees N = 167; agency workers N = 54), all blue-collar workers. Results show that permanent employees and agency workers express similar degrees of commitment to their job and to their co-workers, apart from affective commitment to co-workers, which is lower for agency workers than for permanent workers. We argue that national legislation, as well as managers' attempts to offer HR practices equal to those of permanent staff, play a prominent role in stimulating agency workers' commitment.     

对组建组织加强企业竞争力的人力资源管理模式的思考

作为构建企业竞争力的有效手段,组织能力的三大支柱分别是员工能力,员工思维模式和员上治理方式,本文从这三大支柱出发,进行了对组建加强企业竞争力的人力资源管理模式的思考。     

High-investment HR values and firm performance among local firms and U.S. MNCs’ subsidiaries in South Asia: a comparative study

Grounded in institutional theory, this study investigates the differential adoption and internalization of high-investment human resource (HR) values by local companies and by subsidiaries of US firms located throughout South Asia; and the impact of these HR values on firms’ performance. In line with our predictions, results suggest that US subsidiaries have a greater rate of adoption of high-investment HR values compared to local South Asian firms. Contrary to our predictions, however, both types of firms are similar in the level of internalization of their respective HR values. Finally, while greater levels of high-investment HR value adoption is associated with firm performance across the board, this relationship tends to be stronger for US MNCs’ subsidiaries compared to local South Asian companies. Theoretical and practical implications for the transfer and diffusion of high-investment HR values in institutionally and culturally distant contexts are discussed.     

The strength of human resource practices and transformational leadership: impact on organisational performance

The Human resource (HR) strength concept (Bowen, D., and Ostroff, C. 2004, ‘Understanding HRM-Firm Performance Linkages: The Role of the “Strength” of the HRM System,’ Academy of Management Review, 29, 2, 203–221) reflects the capacity of an HR system to transmit messages characterised by high distinctiveness, consistency and consensus. HR systems are therefore affecting perceptions and interpretations of organisational realities, such as climate and culture. Furthermore, Bowen and Ostroff (2004) suggest that organisational climate mediates the relationship between HR strength and performance. The leadership literature advocates that leaders are people who are able to create a social context in which employees are guided towards a shared interpretation, understanding and perception of the organisational climate (Yukl, G.A. 1989, Leadership in Organizations, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall). In summary, both HR strength and leadership are two environment dimensions shaping and moulding employees' perceptions and interpretations. The current study explores the relationships between HR strength, leadership, organisational climate and performance. 323 questionnaires were used to gather information from a company in the industrial sector. The results show a positive relationship between the variables; however, mediating effects of climate were only observed between leadership and performance.