1.0 Armstrong (2003)‚ defined ‘Employee resourcing as been concerned with ensuring that the organisation obtains and retains the human capital it needs and employs them productively’. Failure to recruit workers with appropriate competence will doom the firm to failure or stunted growth. (Boxall and Purcell‚ 2003‚ pg 140‚141). Employee resourcing can involve sophisticated methods intended to realise long term objectives and balancing consideration such as satisfying the immediate needs
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best fit strategy involves organisations tailoring their HR strategies around the organisations strategies and needs. Whereas the latter suggests that organisations will be more successful if they adopt best practices within the work place (Boxall and Purcell‚ 2008). ‘Best practice’‚ a form of universalism‚ is based around the theory that high commitment will reflect the organisations high performance level regardless of the firm’s competitive strategy (Torrington et al‚ 2011). This is demonstrated
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0048-3486.htm The role of strategic groups in understanding strategic human resource management Judie M. Gannon Oxford School of Hospitality Management‚ Faculty of Business‚ Oxford Brookes University‚ Oxford‚ UK The role of strategic groups 513 Liz Doherty Business School‚ Sheffield Hallam University‚ Sheffield‚ UK‚ and Angela Roper School of Hospitality & Tourism Management‚ University
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assets in an uncertain world: Applying real options theory to HRM Boxall‚ P.‚ & Purcell‚ J. (2003). Strategy and human resource management. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Boxall‚ P. (1996) The strategic HRM debate and the resource-based view of the firm. Human Resource Management Journal‚ 6: 59-75. Boxall‚ P. (1998). Achieving competitive advantage through human resource strategy: Towards a theory of industry dynamics Boxall‚ P.‚ & Purcell‚ J. (2000). Strategic human resource management: Where have we
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11 Mar. 08)UAMP (2006) "HRM IIB: The three perspectives of industrial relations and management style of IR" (The Age)‚ Availablehttp://uamp.wits.ac.za/sebs/downloads/2006/hrm_iib__lec_3_2006.ppt#265‚9‚Unitarism(Assessed 11 Mar. 08)Peter Boxall & John Purcell (2003) "The reality of strategic tensions in HRM: labour motivation" Strategy and human resource management New York PALGRAVE MACMILLANNiels-Erik Wergin (2004) "Introduction to HRM‚ Lecture 13: Frames of Reference in Employment Relations" (The
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1. Abstract It has been controversial and arguable for many years and is still on-going regarding whether HRM and organisational performance are directly or indirectly linked to each other. Some insist that it clearly has a positive impact on business performance whilst the others question that “why companies then hesitate to take the HR policies and why some of them adopt another alternative approaches?” From their point of view‚ it does not affect much of the organisational performance. Therefore
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References: Appendix (1) Adapted from Wright& Gardner (2004) and Purcell& Hutchison (2007)
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organisation. This is further evidence by the concept of the employee chain (Boxall & Purcell‚ 2011) and the positive relationship between people management and the implicit objective of maximizing shareholder value. A ‘best practice’ model of HRM promotes a idealistic model of people management that promotes mutuality between a firm and it’s employees but‚ such an optimistic model assumes universal applicability (Purcell‚ 1999)‚ whereas a ‘best fit’ model argues that HRM is actually more
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