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Human Resource Flexibility as a Mediating Variable Between High Performance Work Systems and Performance

Inmaculada Beltrán-Martín

Departamento Administracion de Empresas y Marketing, Facultad Ciencias Juridicas y Economicas, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon (12071)-Spain, ibeltran{at}emp.uji.es

Vicente Roca-Puig

Departamento Administracion de Empresas y Marketing, Facultad Ciencias Juridicas y Economicas, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon (12071)-Spain

Ana Escrig-Tena

Departamento Administracion de Empresas y Marketing, Facultad Ciencias Juridicas y Economicas, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon (12071)-Spain

Juan Carlos Bou-Llusar

Departamento Administracion de Empresas y Marketing, Facultad Ciencias Juridicas y Economicas, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon (12071)-Spain

Much of the human resource management literature has demonstrated the impact of high performance work systems (HPWS) on organizational performance. A new generation of studies is emerging in this literature that recommends the inclusion of mediating variables between HPWS and organizational performance. The increasing rate of dynamism in competitive environments suggests that measures of employee adaptability should be included as a mechanism that may explain the relevance of HPWS to firm competitiveness. On a sample of 226 Spanish firms, the study's results confirm that HPWS influences performance through its impact on the firm's human resource (HR) flexibility.

Key Words: human resource flexibility • high performance work systems • mediating effects • organizational performance • resource-based view

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Journal of Management, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1009-1044 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0149206308318616
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