Section FiveThe results of this study provided relatively strong
support for a universalistic perspective and some support
for... the contingency... perspectives. Three individual
HR practices, profit sharing, results-oriented appraisals,
and employment security, had relatively strong
universalistic relationships with important accounting
measures of performance. Contingency relationships
between strategy and three HR practices—participation,
results-oriented appraisals, and internal career
opportunities—explained a significant portion of the
variation in the same performance measures.^109