ESTEVES, Teresa Pereira    CAETANO, António. Human resource management practices and organizational performance: research, theoretical and methodological controversies. []. , 10, 2, pp.159-176. ISSN 1984-6657.

This article examines the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance, which in recent years has seen considerable amounts of research conducted in a number of business sectors in various regions and countries. In general, the studies conclude that there is a positive relationship between the quality of HRM practices and organizational performance. Based on empirical works on this issue, published in a variety of international journals in the last two decades, we analyze the theoretical and methodological controversy, open issues, and future research directions. We suggest: considering multidisciplinary approaches to explain the relationship between high-performance HRM practices and organizational performance; the adoption of qualitative methodologies in order to deepen our understanding of HRM practices in organizations; collecting different HRM data for distinct job groups within the same organization. We also suggest a scale that may be used for a systematic analysis of high-performance human resource management practices

: human resource management practices; organizational results; human resource management practice scale.

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