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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Firm Performance - Preliminary Evidence from Finland

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  • Jones, Derek C.
  • Kalmi, Panu
  • Kato, Takao
  • Mäkinen, Mikko
Abstract
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the nature and effects of human resource practices (HRM) in the Finnish manufacturing sector. In the analysis, we use the novel survey on HRM practices, based on a representative random sample from the population of the Finnish manufacturing firms who had 50 or more employees in 2005. In the sample, we have firm-level information on several HRM and employee participation practices of 398 firms, which is 38% of the firms in the population and almost 50% of the survey respondents. To study how HRM practices affect the level of firm productivity, we first combined the HRM survey data with financial statement data and then estimated cross-sectional and panel data estimators for the Cobb-Douglas production functions. We find that both the incidence of employee participation practices and the incidence of HRM tools have increased in the manufacturing sector from 2002 to 2005. The empirical findings support the view of a positive association with the HRM practices and the level of firm productivity. Perhaps more importantly, however, we find that not all forms of employee financial and decision-making participation practices have favorable productivity effects : consultative committee and profit sharing scheme has a positive effect, but other practices do not have statistically significant effects.

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  • Jones, Derek C. & Kalmi, Panu & Kato, Takao & Mäkinen, Mikko, 2008. "The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Firm Performance - Preliminary Evidence from Finland," Discussion Papers 1121, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
    • Handle: RePEc:rif:dpaper:1121
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    Cited by:

    1. Olfa Aissa, 2016. "The Determinants of Financial Participation Impact on Firm Performance: A Meta-Regression Approach," International Journal of Economics and Finance, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(6), pages 151-151, June.
    2. Cerna, Luis Guillermo, 2008. "Capacidades y prácticas empresariales como mecanismo de aprendizaje organizacional y su aplicación a la gestión del Personal: Caso Multinacionales [Capacities and managerial practices as mechanism ," MPRA Paper 14203, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Olfa Aissa, 2016. "A Meta-Analysis of the Financial Participation Impact on Firm Performance," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(8), pages 186-186, July.

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    Keywords

    new workplace practices; HRM; employee participation; productivity;
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    JEL classification:

    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production

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