Looking Back to Move Forward: A 20-year Overview and an Integrated Model of Human Resource Process Research

Sanders, Karin, Hewett, Rebecca and Yang, Huadong ORCID: 0000-0002-8935-941X (2023) Looking Back to Move Forward: A 20-year Overview and an Integrated Model of Human Resource Process Research. In: Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, 41 . Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 161-197. ISBN 9781837533893

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Abstract

Human resource (HR) process research emerged as a response to questions about how (bundles of) HR practices relate to organizational outcomes. The goal of HR process research is to explain variability in employee and organization outcomes by focusing on how HR practices are intended (adopted) by senior managers, the way that these HR practices are implemented and communicated by line managers and how employees perceive, understand, and attribute these HR practices. In the first part of this chapter, we present a review of 20 years of HR process research from the start, to how it developed, and is now maturing. Within the body of HR process research, several different research theoretical streams have emerged, which are largely studied in isolation without benefitting from each other. Therefore, in the second part of this chapter, we draw on previous work to propose a staged process model in which we integrate the different research streams of HR process research, recognizing contingencies in the model. This leads us to an agenda for future research and practical implications in the final part of the chapter.

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2023 12:10
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2024 13:39
DOI:	10.1108/s0742-730120230000041007
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168578