HRM and organizational performance in northern and southern Europe

Apospori, Eleni; Nikandrou, Irene; Brewster, Chris; Papalexandris, Nancy

doi:10.1080/09585190802109788

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“…The European studies on the other hand focused, for example, on the question as to whether employment and HRM practices in former socialist countries were converging towards each other, and the rest of the Europe (Nikandrou et al 2005;Karoliny et al 2009;Sahadev and Demirbag 2010), or whether the southern and northern models of European HRM were converging (Apospori et al 2008). These studies suggest that intra-regional similarities can still be identified, even if Turkey is included in this category (Nikandrou et al 2005;Aydınlı 2010;Sahadev and Demirbag 2010).…”

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“…Apospori et al (2008Apospori et al ( : 1202 already flagged the need for more qualitative research that focuses on the 'content and meaning of the different practices applied in organizations'. It further emerged that Asia (17) and Europe (16) were the regions that were studied most frequently, while the inclusion of North America (6), for instance, was substantially smaller.…”

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What do we know about cross-country comparative studies in HRM? A critical review of literature in the period of 2000-2014

Cooke

Veen

Wood

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Significant progress has been made in the research on variations in human resource management (HRM) across national boundaries, in both the quantity of studies and theoretical advancements since the mid-1980s. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of existing literature on cross-country comparative studies of HRM as an important strand of the international HRM field in order to shed new light on dominant key concerns and themes, and emerging syntheses. More specifically, we conducted a systematic review of cross-country comparative HRM studies published in academic journals in the English language in the 15-year period of 2000-2014. Our paper charted the development of cross-country comparative studies of HRM as a sub-field of HRM research. Our analysis of 125 articles from 30 business and management journals shows the countries/regions that have been studied, topics, and research methods used. We also highlight a number of research avenues for further study in this field. Although there are a number of distinct strands to the literature, our study concludes that there is an emerging common ground in underlying concerns and theoretical assumptions both within the field, and with other areas of management inquiry.

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Section: Thematic Focimentioning

confidence: 99%

What do we know about cross-country comparative studies in HRM? A critical review of literature in the period of 2000-2014

Cooke

Veen

Wood

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…(Peteraf, 1993). Study by Apospori, Nikandrou, Brewster & Papalexandris, (2008) suggested that there is a significant impact of training and development on organizational performance. Subramaniam et al (2011) mentioned that training and development could influence organisational performance because employees' skills, knowledge and abilities can be enhanced and up to date.…”

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The Effect of Human Resources Planning and Training and Development on Organizational Performance in the Government Sector in Jordan

Qudah¹,

Osman²,

Halim³

et al. 2014

IJARBSS

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This paper aimed to examine the human resource (HR) planning, training and development towards organizational performance in the Government Ministry in the Kingdom of Jordan. It investigated the factors that affect HR planning, training and development in Jordanian ministries. The study population, which consisted of employees in the HR departments in 23 Jordanian ministries, comprised 166 respondents. To achieve the study objectives, the researcher developed and distributed a questionnaire, and collected and analyzed the data using SPSS. An overall analysis was performed based on the descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The results indicated that HR planning, training and development significantly correlated with the organizational performance in the Jordanian Ministry. The paper provided recommendations for improving HR in the Jordanian Ministry.

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“…It is not possible to reduce entrepreneuring (Fuller et al, 2003) to a quality of a mind (Apospori et al, 2008), a quality of human beings (Scharmer and Käufer, 2000) or a skill (Chell, 2000), as Steyaert (2007) emphasises. Of the 13 approaches that Steyaert (2007) identifies as dealing with processes in entrepreneurship studies -developmental, evolutionary, complexity theory and chaos theory, interpretive, phenomenological, narrative, dramaturgical, discursive, social constructionist, pragmatist, practice-based, ANT approach and radical processual -some have recently received more attention and engagement, while others remain practically undiscovered.…”

Section: Imagining a Future Of Processual Entrepreneurship Studies -Amentioning

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Entrepreneurship and process studies

Hjorth

Holt

Steyaert

2015

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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Process studies put movement, change and flow first; to study processually is to consider the world as restless, something underway, becoming and perishing, without end. To understand firms processually is to accept but also -and this is harder perhaps -to absorb this fluidity, to treat a variable as just that, a variable. The resonance with entrepreneurship studies is obvious. If any field is alive to, and fully resonant with, a processual understanding of, for example, the creation of firms, it is entrepreneurship studies. This special issue is an attempt to consider the promise and potential of processual approaches to studying, researching and practising entrepreneurship. The articles in the issue attest to an increasing sensitivity to processual thinking. We argue that appreciating entrepreneurial phenomena processually opens up the field to an understanding of entrepreneurship as organizational creation -not simply the creation of new organizations but also experiments in new organizational form.

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HRM and organizational performance in northern and southern Europe

Cited by 85 publications

References 44 publications

What do we know about cross-country comparative studies in HRM? A critical review of literature in the period of 2000-2014

What do we know about cross-country comparative studies in HRM? A critical review of literature in the period of 2000-2014

The Effect of Human Resources Planning and Training and Development on Organizational Performance in the Government Sector in Jordan

Entrepreneurship and process studies

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