A cross-cultural examination of the relationships among human resource management practices and organisational commitment: an institutional collectivism perspective

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2016-11
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Previous research has shown that human resource management (HRM) practices vary across cultures. However, little research has empirically compared the effects of various HRM practices on firm-level or individual-level outcome variables across cultures. Drawing upon psychological contract theory and the literature on cultural values, the present study examined the effects of three organisational-level HRM practices on individual organisational commitment in a survey of 2424 individuals in 120 organisations located in four countries and three industries. Based upon the GLOBE study, we classified the four countries into two groups – high versus low institutional collectivism. The results of our hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) analyses found significant differences in the effects of organisational-level HRM on individual organisational commitment across cultures for two of the three HRM practices included in our model: training and teamwork. We also found partial support for differences across cultures for the effects of the third HRM practice: employee involvement in decision making. Overall, our results support the utility of theoretical and empirical models that address multiple levels of analyses to better understand the mechanisms through which the HRM-performance link takes place across national cultures.

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Rode, J. C., Huang, X., & Flynn, B. (2016). A cross‐cultural examination of the relationships among human resource management practices and organisational commitment: an institutional collectivism perspective. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(4), 471–489. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12117
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