The Effects of Flexibility In Employee Skills, Employee Behaviors, and Human Resource Practices On Firm Performance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2005
Department
Management and International Business
Abstract
The components of human resource (HR) flexibility and theirpotential relationship to firm performance have not been empirically examined. The authors hypothesize that flexibility of employee skills, employee behaviors, and. HR practices represent critical subdimensions of HR flexibility and are related to superior firm performance. Results based on perceptual measures of HR flexibility and accounting measures of firm performance support this prediction. Whereas skill, behavior, and HR practice flexibility are significantly associated with an index of firm financial performance, the authors find that only skill flexibility, contributes to cost-efficiency.
Publication Title
Journal of Management
Volume
31
Issue
4
First Page
622
Last Page
640
Recommended Citation
Bhattacharya, M.,
Gibson, D. E.,
Doty, D. H.
(2005). The Effects of Flexibility In Employee Skills, Employee Behaviors, and Human Resource Practices On Firm Performance. Journal of Management, 31(4), 622-640.
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