We evaluated the impact of human resource (HR) managers’ capabilities on HR management effectiveness and the latter’s impact on corporate financial performance. For 293 U.S. firms, effectiveness was associated with capabilities and attributes of HR staff. We also found relationships between HR management effectiveness and productivity, cash flow, and market value. Findings were consistent acros...

although economic and managerial literature is replete with studies that probe about productivity but only a few studies decompose it to its components (technological changes, managerial efficiency changes and scale efficiency changes)and analysis their share in productivity changes (positively or negatively). accordingly, this article attempts to explain the issue by decompose productivity to ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to assess the magnitude of health-related lost productivity relative to medical and pharmacy costs for four employers and assess the business implications of a "full-cost" approach to managing health. METHODS A database was developed by integrating medical and pharmacy claims data with employee self-report productivity and health information collected ...

By building on compensation literature, the current study explored and identified ties between workers’ competencies, corporate cultures, schemes. These schemes were typically subject of literature factors dealing with implementation incentive systems for pay performance (PFP) or problems that can lead to a PFP system’s failure. Unfortunately, when it comes research HR education practitioners m...

The purpose of the article is to improve theoretical and methodological approaches develop practical recommendations for improvement technology development substantiation HR strategy in company's business plan, implementation which ensures an increase level labour potential strengthening competitive advantages. describes content planning, goals developing a tasks that planning solves. process m...

Omanization is a strategy applied by the Sultanate of Oman since 1988 with an aim to replace expatriate workers Omani nationals. The government has set goals increase percentage employed nationals compared foreigners (expatriates) through as routine Human Resource (HR) practice. This was introduced because increasing number expatriates that indirectly resulted in reduced job opportunities for I...