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Key research themes
1. How is strategic human resource management evolving to address organizational performance and employee experience?
This theme explores the maturation of human resource management (HRM) from traditional personnel functions to a strategic discipline deeply integrated with organizational effectiveness, underlying frameworks, and employee-centric outcomes. It captures the transition from isolated HR practices towards systemic approaches that align human capital with organizational goals, accounting for contextual and cross-cultural factors.
Key finding: The Handbook affirms the emergence of 'analytical HRM' that connects strategic management with organizational theory to explain how HR aligns work and people to enhance organizational performance and employee work experience.... Read more
Key finding: The paper contrasts administrative versus strategic HRM, revealing strategic HRM’s forward-looking, proactive posture aligning employment activities to organizational strategy, especially during mergers and acquisitions. It... Read more
Key finding: This study identifies intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors critical to HR effectiveness and links leadership style with employee performance. It stresses the role of holistic reward systems, career progression... Read more
Key finding: The paper proposes an inclusive HRM framework emphasizing employee development, value proposition, and workplace equity. It situates HRM as a vehicle for diversity, social justice, and ethical leadership, outlining... Read more
2. What emerging roles and capabilities are needed for HRM to manage future organizational challenges?
This theme investigates how HRM roles must evolve in response to rapid environmental complexity, technological advances, and demographic transformations. It focuses on managing cultural shifts, talent acquisition and retention, employee well-being, organizational agility, and integration of new technologies to maintain competitiveness and organizational sustainability in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) contexts.
Key finding: Qualitative interviews reveal that future HR roles will center on managing cultural transformations, ensuring talent supply, promoting employee health and well-being, incorporating technology, and fostering organizational... Read more
Key finding: The paper identifies that AI applications in recruitment, training, performance management, and employee experience optimization significantly reduce workload, minimize bias, and align employee competencies with... Read more
Key finding: This research emphasizes that HRM must go beyond personnel management to strategic deployment of committed talent aligned with organizational goals. It highlights the integration of cultural, structural, and personnel... Read more
Key finding: Drawing on extensive practitioner experience, this paper presents fundamental principles for managing people as complex, unpredictable individuals requiring tailored leadership approaches. It stresses the importance of... Read more
Key finding: This study identifies Human Resource Planning (HRP) as critical for forecasting labor demand and supply, aligning workforce capacity with organizational goals, and enabling proactive decision-making. It stresses the... Read more
3. How do ethical frameworks and corporate social responsibility shape the management of internal stakeholders within human resource practices?
This research area examines the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR), business ethics, and labor relations, focusing on how organizations manage their internal stakeholders, primarily employees, through ethical conduct, responsible policies, and adherence to global compact guidelines. It investigates how ethical principles influence employee relations and organizational legitimacy.
Key finding: The study develops a theoretical model linking business ethics and CSR with labor relations, highlighting responsible employee management as core to socially responsible corporations. It identifies key UN Global Compact... Read more
Key finding: This viewpoint critiques the commodification inherent in the 'human resources' concept, urging a shift towards recognizing employees as human beings with rights and aspirations. It advocates management practices grounded in... Read more