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Human resources practices and firm outcomes
Human resources practices and firm outcomes

Author(s): Elena Porumb, Alina-Raluca Crişan
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai

Summary/Abstract: More and more often, human resources researchers and practitioners ask themselves how can be clearly demonstrated the relationship between human resources practices and firm performance. This special attention for this problem is due to the increasing competitiveness among firms, due to the interest of obtaining competitive advantage through people. So we emphasize the role of human capital, knowledge management, underline the key concept of gaining competitive advantage through people. Also, we present how important is to know how to link the HR Practices – to outcomes through Firm Performance Chain Finally, we propose to develop the practices in Romanians organisations by using new frame, like VRIO (Value, Rareness, Imitability, Organization)

  • Issue Year: 49/2004
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 65-80
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English