TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking Back to Move Forward
T2 - A 20-Year Overview and an Integrated Model of Human Resource Process Research
AU - Sanders, Karin
AU - Hewett, Rebecca
AU - Yang, Huadong
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Human resource (HR) process research emerged as a response to questions about how (bundles of) HR practices relate to organizational outcomes. The goal of HR process research is to explain variability in employee and organization outcomes by focusing on how HR practices are intended (adopted) by senior managers, the way that these HR practices are implemented and communicated by line managers and how employees perceive, understand, and attribute these HR practices. In the first part of this chapter, we present a review of 20 years of HR process research from the start, to how it developed, and is now maturing. Within the body of HR process research, several different research theoretical streams have emerged, which are largely studied in isolation without benefitting from each other. Therefore, in the second part of this chapter, we draw on previous work to propose a staged process model in which we integrate the different research streams of HR process research, recognizing contingencies in the model. This leads us to an agenda for future research and practical implications in the final part of the chapter.
AB - Human resource (HR) process research emerged as a response to questions about how (bundles of) HR practices relate to organizational outcomes. The goal of HR process research is to explain variability in employee and organization outcomes by focusing on how HR practices are intended (adopted) by senior managers, the way that these HR practices are implemented and communicated by line managers and how employees perceive, understand, and attribute these HR practices. In the first part of this chapter, we present a review of 20 years of HR process research from the start, to how it developed, and is now maturing. Within the body of HR process research, several different research theoretical streams have emerged, which are largely studied in isolation without benefitting from each other. Therefore, in the second part of this chapter, we draw on previous work to propose a staged process model in which we integrate the different research streams of HR process research, recognizing contingencies in the model. This leads us to an agenda for future research and practical implications in the final part of the chapter.
U2 - 10.1108/S0742-730120230000041007
DO - 10.1108/S0742-730120230000041007
M3 - Article
SN - 0742-7301
VL - 41
SP - 161
EP - 197
JO - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
JF - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
ER -