Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management

success of many practices often considered ‘‘high performance’’ hinges on the nature of the inter-personal relations in the orga ...

2 Operational Management Systems Research which focuses exclusively on HR practices has the eVect of isolating HRM from ot ...

seen as a critical intangible asset in RBV (Barney and Wright 1998 ). Culture, often deWned as embedded assumptions and shared v ...

even be the dominant outcome requirement. A third end goal of HRM is the pursuit of social legitimacy and the requirement to mee ...

Barney, J., and Wright,P.( 1998 ). ‘On Becoming a Strategic Partner: The Roles of Human Resources in Gaining Competitive Advanta ...

Gordon, G., and DiTomaso,N.( 1992 ). ‘Predicting Corporate Performance from Organ izational Climate.’Journal of Management Studi ...

Purcell, J., and Hutchinson,S.( 2006 ). ‘Front Line Managers as Agents in the HRM Performance Causal Chain: Theory, Analysis and ...

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Either type of error, of course, causes problems. Research may incorrectly deem an eVective HR system as ineVective or an eVecti ...

27.3 Estimating and Interpreting Effect Sizes .................................................................................. ...

the sample size and R^2 for the performance equation increases and as the collinearity of HR with other independent variables de ...

Not surprisingly then, guidelines for statistical methods (even) in psychology journals now admonish researchers that ‘if the un ...

can be viewed as a form of the omitted variable problem (Heckman) and is therefore discussed in that section. When the cov(HR,e) ...

particular person completing the survey than on what practices are actually used in the Wrm because the HR practice scores are i ...

error is the use of instrumental variables, usually using two-stage least squares estimation (discussed later). In the multivari ...

longitudinal data can also be used to remove person-speciWc, time-invariant omitted variables of this sort. Finally, when conduc ...

statistical challenge in HR and performance research. They suggest, for example, that ‘Wrms that understand the advantages of hi ...

whatsoever or statistical control of potential omitted variables. Although this is a unique advantage, some evidence indicates t ...

variable (e.g. using logistic regression) on a set of covariates. Rosenbaum and Rubin show that, in large samples, the propensit ...

2 Selection Bias Correction Sample selection bias refers to the case where observations above or below a certain thres ...