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Toward a Strategic Human Resource Management Model of High Reliability Organization Performance

Author
Ericksen, Jeff; Dyer, Lee
Abstract
In this article, we extend strategic human resource management (SHRM) thinking to theory and research on high reliability organizations (HROs) using a behavioral approach. After considering the viability of reliability as an organizational performance indicator, we identify a set of eight reliability-oriented employee behaviors (ROEBs) likely to foster organizational reliability and suggest that they are especially valuable to reliability seeking organizations that operate under “trying conditions”. We then develop a reliability-enhancing human resource strategy (REHRS) likely to facilitate the manifestation of these ROEBs. We conclude that the behavioral approach offers SHRM scholars an opportunity to explain how people contribute to specific organizational goals in specific contexts and, in turn, to identify human resource strategies that extend the general high performance human resource strategy (HPHRS) in new and important ways.
Date Issued
2004-03-01Subject
organization; performance; human resource management; strategic; model; reliability; SHRM; high reliability organizations; HRO; reliability-oriented employee behaviors; ROEB; (HPHRS)
Type
preprint