Implementing HRM Systems: The Role of Employees' Co-Production Behavior and HRM Attributions

Actions speak louder than words: how employees mind the implementation gap

“…Guest and Bos-Nehles, 2013) have in common is to place the main focus of HR implementation on those in managerial positions within organisations. While this may be accurate, it excludes the study of employees in the process, at the risk of implying that they are passive recipients of HRM (Bos-Nehles and Meijerink, 2015). Given that employees directly experience HR practices, it is reasonable to expect that they might react to them.…”

“…This may be why Kirton, Robertson and Avdelidou-Fischer (2016) state that expanding the focus of HR implementation theorising to non-managerial employees may be worthy of additional research and why the present study takes the perspective of employees. To this end, this paper summarises the findings of a study that responds to calls to understand the role of 'others' in HR implementation (Bos-Nehles and Meijerink, 2015). In doing so, the paper contributes in different ways; first, it illuminates the role of employees in the HR implementation process.…”