Development and Validation of the Competitive Human Resource Practices Measure
Type
conference paper
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Abstract
Recently, some of the established and widely used HR practices became a source of controversial disputes among practitioners. Prominent examples are forced distribution rank-ings and “winner-takes at all” talent management practices. The reason: They seem to pro-mote internal and, as some argue, event toxic competition among employees. While either strongly discarded or strongly embraced in practice, scientific research on ‘competitive’ HR practices is much less pronounced. A recent paper by Sapegina & Weibel (2017) proposed that competitive HR practices lead to undesirable employee outcomes (e.g., malicious envy and work deviance), but might as well result in more desirable outcomes (e.g., benign envy and task performance). However, research has yet to provide a measurement instrument to study competitive HR practices’ controversial impact in organizations. Our paper aims at filling this void. It develops and psychometrically validates a measurement instrument of competitive HR practices. With this work, we hope to facilitate further research on the con-troversial impact of competitive HR practices in organizations.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Event Title
11th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network
Event Location
Tilburg
Event Date
13.11.2019 - 15.11.2019
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Eprints ID
258455