THE IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON TURNOVER, PRODUCTIVITY, AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE.

Abstract

This study comprehensively evaluated the links between systems of High Performance Work Practices and firm performance. Results based on a national sample of nearly one thousand firms indicate that these practices have an economically and statistically significant impact on both intermediate employee outcomes (turnover and productivity) and short- and long-term measures of corporate financial performance. Support for predictions that the impact of High Performance Work Practices on firm performance is in part contingent on their interrelationships and links with competitive strategy was limited. The impact of human resource management (HRM) policies and prac

Keywords

Human resource managementProductivityBusinessTurnoverHuman resourcesEmployee motivationIndustrial organizationEnvironmental resource managementEconomicsManagementMarketing

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Year: 1995
Type: article
Volume: 38
Issue: 3
Pages: 635-672
Citations: 8014
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                                    Mark A. Huselid
                                
                            (1995). 
                            THE IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON TURNOVER, PRODUCTIVITY, AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE.. 
                            Academy of Management Journal
                            , 38
                            (3)
                            , 635-672.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/256741

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DOI: 10.2307/256741

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