David E. Guest & Jaap Paauwe 
HRM and Performance 
Achievements and Challenges

The link between HRM and performance has become an important policy issue at both a national and a corporate level.

HRM and Performance draws on the knowledge and expertise of a number of leading international scholars in the field of HRM to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of HRM and identify fruitful directions for theory, research and practice. A central question throughout is – what’s next for HRM and what are the keys to the future of managing people and performance?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Editor biographies ix

Author biographies xii

Chapter 1 HRM and Performance: What Do We Know and Where Should
We Go? 1

Jaap Paauwe, Patrick Wright and David Guest

Chapter 2 HRM, Well-Being and Performance: A Theoretical and
Empirical Review 15

Riccardo Peccei, Karina van de Voorde and Marc van
Veldhoven

Chapter 3 Building Highly-performing Work Systems: Analysing HR
Systems and Their Contribution to Performance 47

Peter Boxall

Chapter 4 Reconceptualizing Fit in Strategic Human Resource
Management: ‚Lost in Translation?‘ 61

Jaap Paauwe, Corine Boon, Paul Boselie and Deanne den
Hartog

Chapter 5 HRM and Performance: The Role of Effective
Implementation 79

David Guest and Anna Bos-Nehles

Chapter 6 Strategic HRM and Organizational Behaviour:
Integrating Multiple Levels of Analysis 97

Patrick Wright and Lisa Nishii

Chapter 7 Measuring Human Capital: A Strategic Human Resource
Management Perspective 111

Gary C. Mc Mahan and Christopher M. Harris

Chapter 8 Measurement of Human Resource Practices: Issues
Regarding Scale, Scope, Source and Substantive Content 129

Angela Langevin-Heavey, Susanne Beijer, Jessica Federman, Michel
Hermans, Felice Klein, Elizabeth Mc Clean and Brian
Martinson

Chapter 9 Research on Human Resources and Effectiveness: Some
Methodological Challenges 149

Barry Gerhart

Chapter 10 Progress and Prospects for HRM-Performance
Research in Small and Medium-sized Business 173

Sophie de Winne and Luc Sels

Chapter 11 Progress and Prospects 197

David Guest, Patrick Wright and Jaap Paauwe

References 207

Index 239

Über den Autor

The Authors
The contributors include some of the leading international experts in the development of theory and research in the field of human resource management.

David Guest is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management in the Department of Management at King’s College London.

Jaap Paauwe is Professor of Human Resource Management at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

Patrick Wright is Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.