Firms are continuously improving their human resource management (HRM) practices in order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and increase their profitability. These practices include employee involvement, training, empowerment, compensation and rewards, etc. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between human resource practices and firm performance. Using compani...

The potential for human resource management to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. life insurance companies has received little attention in the past. Our evidence suggests that U.S. life insurance firms give little attention to consciously aligning their human resource systems with the requirements of their competitive strategies. We also find evidence suggesting that care in preserving relati...

In this study, we investigate how hospitality companies can promote incremental and radical innovation through human resource management practices (i.e., selection and training). Data from 196 independent hotels and restaurants operating in the People’s Republic of China show that hiring multi-skilled core customer-contact employees and training core customer-contact employees for multiple skil...

one of the main areas of human resource strategy, implementing strategic approach to human resource management and human resource strategy. the purpose of the strategic actions of those activities for innovative human resources programs is to create a close relationship between human resources with strategic objectives designed. the purpose of the strategic view of human resource management is ...

Given the role that knowledge management can play consistently on the changes and the need to develop human resources in the implementation of knowledge management on the one hand and important position of cooperative sector In country economics, on the other hand, led to that the researchers study the relationship between knowledge management and human resource performance of the agricultural ...