Purpose – Many organizations hold the traditional view that due to the potential of higher job dissatisfaction and employee turnover rates, hiring overqualified job candidates is risky. The purpose of this paper is to take an alternative perspective, using Human Capital and Resource-based...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a perspective on the future of the human resource management (HRM)-performance debate and its prospects for interaction with practice by evaluating the debate's intellectual structure. Design/methodology/approach – With co-citation analysis the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine design features that enable an organization to address today's complex and increasingly pressing global issues in ways that are sustainably effective. It identifies key social and environmental issues and reviews research examining how...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate over people management rationales and how they relate to organizational effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on the distinction between the “logic of consequences” and the “logic of appropriateness,”...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present robust evidence about the effects of human resource management (HRM) systems on organizational productivity, by mixing both distal objective and proximal subjective measures, and by proposing an estimation method that employs hard HRM data....

Purpose – As founding editors of the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance , this paper welcomes the beginnings of a new academic community. The purpose of this paper is to outline why both academic researchers and organizational practitioners need to enter into and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential role that the so-called “toxic triangle” (Padilla et al. , 2007) can play in undermining the processes around effectiveness. It is the interaction between leaders, organisational members, and the environmental context in...

Purpose While human capital analytics (HCA) recently has developed enormous interest, most organizations still find themselves struggling to move from operational reporting to analytics. The purpose of this paper is to explore why that is the case and can be done to change that....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges that health care organizations face in nurturing and sustaining cultures that ensure the delivery of continually improving, high quality and compassionate care for patients and other service users. Design/methodology/approach –...