Handbook on HR Process Research

This forward-thinking Handbook explores cutting-edge research on how employees within firms should be managed in order to increase their wellbeing and performance.

Expert contributors explore an emerging stream of research in human resource management (HRM) which suggests that attention should be paid to how line managers implement HR practices and how employees perceive, understand and attribute these HR practices. Chapters consider the implications of employees’ and leaders’ HR attributions and their performance, HRM system strength, change, talent management and the role of line managers in the HRM process. Providing an overview of the current knowledge in the HR process research, the Handbook also discusses future avenues and directions for the field.

Demonstrating the dynamics of how HR practices impact organisational and individual outcomes, this Handbook will be critical reading for scholars and students of human resource management, organisational behaviour and research methods in business and management. It will also be beneficial for HR professionals seeking to understand how they can increase the effectiveness of their HR management.

Contents:

1 Introduction to human resource management process 1
Charmi Patel, Huadong Yang and Karin Sanders

PART I THE STATE OF HR PROCESS RESEARCH
2 HR attributions: a critical review and research agenda 8
Rebecca Hewett
3 HR strength: past, current and future research 28
Karin Sanders, Timothy C. Bednall and Huadong Yang
4 Perceptions of HRM: When do we differ in perceptions?
When is it meaningful to assess such differences? 47
Yvonne G.T. van Rossenberg
PART II NEW APPLICATIONS

5 Team leaders’ HR attributions and their implications on teams
and employee-level outcomes 71
Yucheng Zhang, Zhiling Wang and Xin Wei
6 Putting perceived HR credibility into the HRM process
picture: insights from the elaboration likelihood model 84
Xiaobei Li
7 HRM system strength implementation: a multi-actor process
perspective 100
Anna Bos-Nehles, Jordi Trullen and Mireia Valverde
8 The hard problem: human resource management and performance 116
Keith Townsend, Kenneth Cafferkey, Tony Dundon and Safa Riaz
9 Employee attributions of talent management 133
Adelle Bish, Helen Shipton and Frances Jorgensen
10 Change within organizations: an attributional lens 146
Karin Sanders and Alannah Rafferty

PART III STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
11 Reflections on the HR landscape 163
Cheri Ostroff
12 The role of line managers in the HRM process 178
David E. Guest

Index