Personnel Review: Volume 46 Issue 7

A special issue: human resources and workplace innovations: practices, perspectives and paradigms – a tribute and dedication to Professor Tom Redman

Greg J. Bamber, Timothy Bartram, Pauline Stanton

HRM and workplace innovations: formulating research questions

Greg J. Bamber, Timothy Bartram, Pauline Stanton

The purpose of this paper is to review the roles of human resource management (HRM) specialists in the contemplation and implementation of innovation in employing organisations…

HRM and innovative work behaviour: a systematic literature review

Anna Bos-Nehles, Maarten Renkema, Maike Janssen

Although we know that HRM practices can have a huge impact on employees’ innovative work behaviour (IWB), we do not know exactly which practices make the difference and how they…

Disentangling workplace innovation: a systematic literature review

Iryna Prus, Raoul C.D. Nacamulli, Alessandra Lazazzara

The purpose of this paper is to consolidate the state of extant academic research on workplace innovation (WI) by proposing a comprehensive conceptual framework and outlining…

Employee share ownership and organisational performance: a tentative opening of the black box

Keith Whitfield, Andrew Pendleton, Sukanya Sengupta, Katy Huxley

A range of studies have shown that performance is typically higher in organisations with employee share ownership (ESO) schemes in place. Many possible causal mechanisms…

Why sharing is synergy: The role of decentralized control mechanisms and centralized HR capabilities in creating HR shared service value

Marco Maatman, Jeroen Meijerink

HR shared service centers (SSCs) have been claimed to innovate human resource management service delivery by centralizing resources and decentralizing control and, in doing so…

High-performance work system and employee creativity: The roles of perceived organisational support and devolved management

Guiyao Tang, Bingjie Yu, Fang Lee Cooke, Yang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the underlying mechanism through which high-performance work system (HPWS) influences employee creativity. In addition, this paper aims to…

Strategic flexibility, innovative HR practices, and firm performance: A moderated mediation model

Lin Xiu, Xin Liang, Zhao Chen, Wei Xu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of innovative HR practices as an important mechanism through which strategic flexibility affects firm performance as well as the…

Contextual ambidexterity and innovation in healthcare in India: the role of HRM

Ashish Malik, Brendan Boyle, Rebecca Mitchell

The purpose of this paper is to examine innovation in the resource-constrained context of India’s healthcare industry. It is argued that the process of innovation in addressing…

Innovation programs at the workplace for workers with an intellectual disability: Two case studies in large Australian organisations

Hannah Meacham, Jillian Cavanagh, Amie Shaw, Timothy Bartram

The purpose of this paper is to examine human resource management (HRM) innovation programs in the early stages of employment for workers with an intellectual disability (WWID).

Are new organisations at the cutting edge of employment relations innovation?

David Peetz, Olav Muurlink, Keith Townsend, Adrian Wilkinson, Madeleine Brabant

The purpose of this paper is to explore differences in the degree of innovation in employment relations (ER) between emerging and established firms,

Independent professionals and the potential for HRM innovation

Tui McKeown, Robyn Cochrane

The purpose of this paper is to examine “black box” links between HRM innovations and organizational performance by investigating the perspective of a workforce often excluded…

Opening the black box: The mediating roles of organisational systems and ambidexterity in the HRM-performance link in public sector organisations

Geoff Plimmer, Jane Bryson, Stephen T.T. Teo

The purpose of this paper is to explore how HIWS may shape organisational capabilities, in particular organisational ambidexterity (OA) – the ability to be both adaptable to the…