Revision Hrm Systems

Question 1

Systems and bundles

Answer 1

Systems - when the components make different contributions toward the attainment of a common outcome or influence the same outcome through different and non conflicting routes

Bundles- different practices cooperating to influence the same workforce characteristics

Question 2

Subramony strengths and limitations

Answer 2

Strengths :
-Examination of HRM bundles instead of combined effects of individual hrm practices
-conclusion based on combined findings of 65 studies
Inclusion of some moderator variables

Limitations

• not all potential moderators accounted for
• no test of causality

Question 3

Synergies

Answer 3

Theoretic insights on the nature performance synergies in human resource systems : toward greater precision

Question 4

Ontology

Answer 4

Study of the nature of reality (reality as objective and independent of our perception or as constructed by those who experience it ? )

Positivism versus interpretivism

Quantitative versus qualitative approach

Deduction v introduction