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Faculty Publications - Human Resource Studies
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The Human Resource Studies Department consists of world-class faculty members engaged in research, teaching and practice. These faculty members play integral roles in the administration of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), an ILR-based research center funded by over 50 corporations, and the ILR Executive Education Program that offers advanced training to HR practitioners. Their goal in teaching is to balance a rigorous academic research approach with a real-world practice orientation. In this way they provide their students with state-of-the-art knowledge relevant to managing human resources in organizations.
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Knowledge Exchange and Combination: The Role of Human Resource Practices in the Performance of High-Technology Firms
(Academy of Management, 2006-06)In this study, we developed and tested a theory of how human resource practices affect the organizational social climate conditions that facilitate knowledge exchange and combination and resultant firm performance. A field ... -
Existing Knowledge, Knowledge Creation Capability, and the Rate of New Product Introduction in High-Technology Firms
(Academy of Management, 2005-04)A field study of top management teams and knowledge workers from 72 technology firms demonstrated that the rate of new product and service introduction was a function of organization members' ability to combine and exchange ... -
Strategic Human Resource Practices, Top Management Team Social Networks, and Firm Performance: The Role of Human Resource Practices in Creating Organizational Competitive Advantage
(Academy of Management, 2003-12)In this article, we begin to explore the black box between human resources (HR) practices and firm performance. Specifically, we examine the relationships between a set of network-building HR practices, aspects of the ... -
Global Competition's Perfect Storm: Why Business and Labor Cannot Solve their Problems Alone
(Academy of Management, 2007-05)A perfect storm is a conjoining of forces that intensifies effects. This commentary addresses the economic perfect storm that the United States and many other developed countries face as they attempt to become globally ... -
The Role of Corporate HR Funcitons in MNCs: The Interplay Between Corporate, Regional/National and Plant Level
(2005-03-01)The HR literature has been abundant in providing typologies of the roles of HR professionals in their organisation. These typologies are largely related to the changing nature of HRM over time, and the context in which ... -
HRM and Performance: What’s Next?
(2005-07-22)The last decade of empirical research on the added value of human resource management (HRM), also known as the HRM and Performance debate, demonstrates evidence that ‘HRM does matter’ (Huselid, 1995; Guest, Michie, Conway ... -
Human Resource Function Competencies in European Companies
(2005-01-01)This paper presents an overview of recent empirical research on human resource competencies in Europe. The data were collected in 2002 in the global Human Resource Competence Study, an initiative of the University of ... -
Assault on Workers’ Rights
(1994-01-01)The cases in this report describe employers' blatant contempt for the rights of workers to voice their opinions in the workplace. Obsessed with retaining unilateral and total authority over their employees, the owners of ... -
Measurement Error in Research on Human Resources and Firm Performance: Additional Data and Suggestions for Future Research
(2000-11-01)Gerhart and colleagues and Huselid and Becker recently debated the presence and implications of measurement error in measures of human resource practices. This paper presents data from three more studies, one of large ... -
Recognizing Risk in Human Capital Investments: A Real Options Approach to Strategic Human Resource Management
(2000-11-01)An issue that has not yet been explored in the field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is that of managing the ‘risks’ involved in human capital management of the firm. We address this issue using the real ...
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