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HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEMS, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND FIRM EFFECTIVENESS The HRM literature emphasises the importance of people in enhancing firm performance or even creating competitive advantage. This study provides further evidence on the link between so‐called high performance work systems and firm performance and relates these to organizational culture. In total 175 organizations from different sectors in the Netherlands participated. Senior HR managers were questioned on HRM practices and chief executives on organizational culture. (Hartog, 24 August 2006) Three different groups of personnel are distinguished in the measures: core employees, managers and specialist professional staff. One high performance work system could be distinguished, consisting of a combination of practices with an emphasis on employee development, strict selection and providing an overarching goal or direction. Results of regression analyses controlling for sector, fir...

THE SHIFT FROM MANUAL WORKS TO KNOWLEDGE WORK What is in the world of work is that its center of gravity has sharply shifted from manual work to knowledge work . In 1920, the ratio of manual workers to knowledge workers was 2:1. By 1980, things were the other way around. The mid-point in this shift seems to be 1956, the year white-collar workers first outnumbered blue-collar workers. In recent testimony before a senate subcommittee, the percentage of knowledge workers in the computer industry was estimated at 72% (13% managerial, 15% clerical, and 44% technical and professional); and, on the other side of the coin, the percentage of the employed work force engaged in actual manufacturing operations was estimated at 13%. More important, the pace of the shift from manual work to knowledge work seems to be slowing considerably. Bureau of Labor and Bureau of Census projections for 1990 show roughly the same ratio of knowledge workers to manual workers as was revealed by the 1980 ...

MEASURING THE BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT It’s well known that employees’ attitudes toward the organization have a significant effect on how they approach their jobs and how they treat customers. But recent research also suggests that high levels of employee engagement are associated with higher rates of profitability growth. Over the years, the media and academia have paid close attention to various customer-driven strategies — aimed at improving measures such as customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and company profits. However, in recent years, the focus has changed. Although the ability to deliver a good product or service to customers who want it and are willing to pay for it is still seen as the key ingredient to success, there is a growing interest in understanding the impact of employees on the bottom line.  (Pansari, June 16, 2015) That some companies are choosing to invest in better-trained and more service-oriented workforces should be no surprise. W...

HUMAN RESOURCE AND MANAGEMENT The study of human resource management (HRM) has been invigorated by the promise that there is a best‐practice, high‐involvement management (HIM) that can guarantee superior organizational performance. None the less, there remain concerns that contingency theory still rules, that is, that the fit between the human resource systems and their context, and particularly the organization's business strategy, is all important and, thus, that HIM will only outperform other systems in certain circumstances. In the 1990s, there has been a spate of research that has sought to test whether HIM is indeed universally relevant. This paper reviews these studies. (Fabling, (2010).) The paper first introduces the conceptual dimensions of the debate concerning HRM and performance. This shows that the issues go beyond a simple competition between universalism and contingency theory. There are more complicated hypotheses linking human resource practices beneath...

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE APPROACH FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM In this digital world, organizations are facing global competition as well as manpower pressures leading towards the knowledge economy, which heavily impacts on their local and international businesses. The trend is to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing to cope with these problems. With the advancement of technologies and social engineering that can connect people in the virtual world across time and distance, several organizations are embarking on knowledge management (KM) systems, implementing a community of practice (Cop) approach. However, virtual communities are relatively new paradigms, and there are several challenges to their successful implementation from an organization’s point of interest. There is lack of Cop implementation framework that can cater to today’s dynamic business and sustainability requirements. To fill the gap in literature, this paper develops a practical framework for a Cop im...

MANAGERIAL STRATEGIES HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE AND LABOR RELATIONS IN BANKS In the evidence from the national report in this topic are experiencing a profound transformation unleashed by deregulation,privatization and technological change that effect not only the way bank business is conduct but also traditional employment practice and   systems of industrial relations   twenty years ago commercial and savings banks were highly bureaucratic organizations whose prevalent business activities were to take deposits,give credits and organize the payment system within highly protected and compartmentalized   national market .today banks are transforming into more flexible organization that offer a wide range of product ,including deposits credit   payment system insurance ,credit cards, cash management, and pension and mutual funds. They are exposed to increasing level of competition within deregulate international and national market   (re...