Human Resource Policies and Company Performance: A Quantitative Approach Using Longitudinal Data
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Organization Studies
- Vol. 18 (5) , 857-874
- https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069701800508
Abstract
The organization of employment is often seen as a means to attain or retain competitive advantage in current product markets. High committment organizations and flexible specialization workplaces are some of the new labels of such modem human resource policies (Osterman 1994), the shaping of which should result in high performance. From an outsider's perspective, for instance that of an investor or a banker, such an assumption raises two important sets of questions:Keywords
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