The role of HR attributions in the HRM – Outcome relationship: Introduction to the special issue

TY - JOUR

T1 - The role of HR attributions in the HRM – Outcome relationship

T2 - Introduction to the special issue

AU - Sanders, Karin

AU - Guest, David

AU - Rodrigues, Ricardo

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/7

Y1 - 2021/7

N2 - Human resource (HR) process research seeks to explain the relationship between HR practices and employee outcomes and organisational performance. This body of research examines the HR implementation process, particularly the role of line managers, and the employees' HR sense-making process. Among these processes, one promising line of research explores the antecedents and consequences of employees' HR attributions or beliefs about why their organisation implements specific HR practices. However, research on these HR attributions has been rather limited leading to this special issue to advance our knowledge of this field. In this Introduction to the special issue we review the current ‘state-of-the-art’ and highlight the research questions which we invited contributors to address. We outline how the articles advance our knowledge and help to promote a future research agenda.

AB - Human resource (HR) process research seeks to explain the relationship between HR practices and employee outcomes and organisational performance. This body of research examines the HR implementation process, particularly the role of line managers, and the employees' HR sense-making process. Among these processes, one promising line of research explores the antecedents and consequences of employees' HR attributions or beliefs about why their organisation implements specific HR practices. However, research on these HR attributions has been rather limited leading to this special issue to advance our knowledge of this field. In this Introduction to the special issue we review the current ‘state-of-the-art’ and highlight the research questions which we invited contributors to address. We outline how the articles advance our knowledge and help to promote a future research agenda.

KW - future agenda

KW - HR attributions

KW - HR practices

KW - outcomes

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105172649&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/1748-8583.12358

DO - 10.1111/1748-8583.12358

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85105172649

SN - 0954-5395

VL - 31

SP - 694

EP - 703

JO - HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

JF - HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

IS - 3

ER -