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Riann Singh
Shalini Ramdeo
Contemporary
Perspectives in Human
Resource Management
and Organizational
Behavior
Research Overviews
and Gaps to Advance
Interrelated Fields
Contemporary Perspectives in Human Resource
Management and Organizational Behavior
Riann Singh · Shalini Ramdeo
Contemporary
Perspectives
in Human Resource
Management
and Organizational
Behavior
Research Overviews and Gaps to Advance
Interrelated Fields
Riann Singh Shalini Ramdeo
The Department of Management The Department of Management
Studies Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of the West Indies The University of the West Indies
Saint Augustine Saint Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
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viii PREFACE
These ten (10) areas span novel responses and arrangements required
in today’s workplace in recognition of crises such as COVID-19, newer
advances and perspectives in the fields, and contemporary ideas that have
evolved and developed from traditional topics.
Overall, this book is structured into twelve (12) chapters. The first and
last chapters (Chapters 1 and 12, respectively) provide an introduction
and conclusion on contemporary research perspectives within the fields
of HRM and OB. The remaining ten (10) chapters, (Chapters 2 to 11)
provide research overviews and outline research gaps on the ten (10) core
areas to advance HRM-OB scholarship.
xi
xii CONTENTS
Index 221
List of Figures
xiii
CHAPTER 1
Chapter Objectives
In this chapter, contemporary research perspectives in the fields of human
resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) are
introduced as the basis for the book. The importance of such perspec-
tives to synthesize and advance research in these interrelated fields are
also evaluated, and a roadmap for the book is provided. This chapter,
therefore, aims to achieve the following objectives:
Research Overview
The Fields of Human Resource Management (HRM)
and Organizational Behavior (OB): Strategic Alignment
to Organizational Strategy, Goals & Objectives
The globalization of businesses and capital markets over the past two
decades has changed the organizational landscape. Many firms have
expanded operations overseas, and even strictly domestic businesses are
facing competition from abroad. To respond to global competition, firms
are using new technologies to provide better, lower-cost solutions for
their customers. However, these technological innovations have led to
the constant movement of customers and competitors. At the same time,
global capital markets are pressuring firms to innovate and reduce costs,
which is not an easy feat. Such trends are pushing companies to manage
their assets as effectively as possible—especially their human assets. In such
a global business context, the fields of HRM and OB, as well as advancing
research in these areas, become important.
Definitions of HRM abound within the managerial literature. Tradi-
tionally, the field has been synonymous with the administrative functions
of personnel management (Kossek, 1987). Since the early 1980s, there is
a substantial body of literature on HRM, and most contemporary perspec-
tives take a strategic approach to the management of employee relation-
ships. For instance, Wang (2020) asserts that HRM involves management
decisions related to policies, practices, systems, and approaches that shape
the employment relationship to support the achievement of organiza-
tional goals, objectives, and strategies. There is also some consensus that
contemporary HRM involves attracting, developing, and maintaining an
effective workforce to drive organizational effectiveness and to achieve
a competitive edge. Within this strategic perspective, HRM functions
such as recruitment and selection, training and development, performance
management, and reward management are used to support organiza-
tional strategies. Employees are viewed as resources. Indeed, the classic
resource-based view (RBV) of the firm notes that within strategic HRM,
employees are assets that can be used to support the achievement of orga-
nizational goals and objectives as well (D’Oria et al., 2022). HRM is
inherently a multi-level field of study. HRM processes and changes within
the organizational environment interact with organizational systems to
affect outcomes at the firm, unit, and employee levels. HRM functions
1 INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH … 3
OB and HRM stems from the premise that HRM can serve as a tool for
shaping OB and conversely, OB provides the broad foundation to inform
HRM approaches as well. Both HRM and OB are fields with a strategic
perspective; both areas aim to support the achievement of organizational
goals, objectives, and strategies. Given such interrelationships between the
fields, there is a natural HRM-OB research overlap. The field of HRM
has emerged from the conceptual, empirical, and practical intersection
of several disciplines including OB, as well as psychology, sociology, and
management/organization sciences. HRM as a field of practice, research,
and education draws its underpinning theory heavily from the OB field
since OB theories combine contributions from these other related fields
as well. Traditionally, scholars have attempted to categorize these lines
of research as distinct fields and issues regarding the distinction between
HRM and OB have been debated for several years. Some have attempted
to simplify this distinction between HRM and OB by arguing that OB is
more conceptual and HRM more applied; and that OB may be micro-
focused, while HRM may be more macro-level. Yet, these distinctions
are generally arbitrary since both fields certainly overlap. HRM and OB
are important areas of inquiry within the organizational sciences, and
there is little to be gained by putting up artificial boundaries. In fact,
there is more to be gained by bringing together multiple perspectives to
advance theories and research on employer-employee relationships and
the understanding of behaviors in and of organizations. These areas are
not mutually exclusive, but rather are interdependent.
These ten (10) areas span novel responses and alternative arrangements
required within today’s changing business environment, emerging OB
challenges, one of the most unique HRM challenges within emerging
research, and alternative contemporary perspectives on classical research
ideas (See Fig. 1.1).
10 R. SINGH AND S. RAMDEO
Conclusion
Exploring emerging, contemporary, and alternative perspectives within
the fields of HRM and OB is important for the advancement of research
and scholarship in these areas. This book aims to provide research
overviews and identify research gaps to provide the foundation for the
development of further scholarship in these areas.
1 INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH … 13
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Chapter Objectives
In this chapter, the contemporary business environment characterized by
crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the uncertainty and insta-
bility associated with organizational environment changes are explored.
The existing research on innovative HRM and OB responses to cope,
survive, and thrive within organizational crises is also covered. This is
the first of two chapters covered in the book, which examines contem-
porary responses within a changing business environment. This chapter,
therefore, aims to achieve the following objectives:
Research Overview
Crises Within the Contemporary Business Environment
Businesses do not operate within a vacuum; all businesses operate within
an organizational environment. From as early as Hicks and Gullet (1987),
there is the recognition that businesses exist within an environment which
provides resources and constraints. Several definitions of the business envi-
ronment exist within the managerial literature. For instance, one of the
more widely cited classical definitions by Griffin (1996) postulates that
the business environment surrounds organizations and is made up of
general and task dimensions. General environmental dimensions describe
natural, economic, technological, sociocultural, political-legal, and inter-
national forces surrounding an organization, which creates its overall
context. Task environment dimensions refer to specific organizations or
groups that influence the organization such as competitors, suppliers,
customers, and the labor market. Therefore, the business environment
encompasses general and task factors that affect businesses and orga-
nizational functioning indirectly and directly. Indeed, most definitions
reflect the fact that the business environment comprises all forces or
factors external to the organization that are likely to affect its operations
(Meinhardt et al., 2018). Singh and Ramdeo (2020) note, however, that
internal factors within organizations also affect its functioning thereby
constituting its internal environment. Even so, researchers have long
discovered that organizations are open systems that constantly interact
with its environment, and in the process affect and are affected by the
environment.
Contemporary perspectives on the business environment go a step
further than these simplistic conceptualizations to recognize that turbu-
lence, uncertainty, instability, and consequently crises are core aspects
of this environment. An organizational crisis can threaten an organiza-
tion’s goals, stability, performance, and have profound implications for
employees, organizational functioning, and effectiveness (Hazaa et al.,
2021). Hazaa et al. (2021), based on a review of literature spanning the
last twenty (20) years, assert that while there are many definitions, crises
can generally be described as events which are perceived by managers
and stakeholders as highly salient, unexpected, and potentially disruptive.
Even so, organizational crises may share several common elements:
2 INNOVATIVE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT … 17
Meta-analytic research studies within the last two years have focused
heavily on the ways in which the work environment and hence organi-
zations have been transformed due to the COVID-19 crisis (Mun et al.,
2022). Work settings within organizations have undergone and continue
to undergo transformations in terms of work methods (e.g., remote,
virtual, and hybrid work arrangements) as new ways of working continue
to emerge. Employee mental health and well-being have also been hit
in undeniable ways by the COVID-19 crisis. Some studies reported
employees’ worsening perceptions of their health, psychological capital,
burnout, emotional exhaustion, and mental workload (Obrad, 2020;
Meseguer de Pedro et al., 2021; Rodríguez-López et al., 2021), which
have adversely affected employee and organizational productivity. Several
other HRM-OB areas have been hit by the COVID crisis with further
implications for employees and organizations. For instance, the emerging
body of pandemic research indicates that employees are increasingly
looking toward their organizations for supportive strategies to enhance
coping abilities (Bojadjiev & Vaneva, 2021). The need for supportive
leadership to enhance work engagement and employee motivation has
emerged as a common theme across several research studies (Dirani et al.,
2020). Employee career behaviors have also been affected by the COVID
crisis with mounting job dissatisfaction, negative work behaviors, reduced
commitment and loyalty and an overall work disengagement, even within
tough job markets (Gregori, 2020; Mun et al., 2022).
. Resilience.
. Training and development.
. Creative HR Practices (Hiring/Promotion/Rewards practices).
. Downsizing versus Rightsizing/Reorganizing.
. Transformational leadership.
. Adjustments in the nature/type of work.
Resilience
From the perspective of employees, organizational crises are often concep-
tualized as stressors within the organizational environment that challenge
their coping abilities (Zacher & Rudolph, 2022). Stressors are events that
have the potential to disrupt normal psychological and physical func-
tioning. Stressful events are experiences that trigger negative affect such
as organizational crises. To enhance the coping abilities of employees
when faced with the stressors of organizational crises, building resilience
has emerged as an innovative response. A growing body of literature has
shown that resilient workers within resilient organizations are more likely
2 INNOVATIVE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT … 23
Resilience
Creative HR
Practices Training &
(Hiring,
Promotion, Development
Rewards)
INNOVATIVE
HRM/OB
RESPONSES TO
Downsizing CRISES Adjustments in
versus the
Rightsizing/ nature/type of
Reorganizing work
Transformational
Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Several significant crises within the last three (3) decades have signifi-
cantly affected the attitudes and behaviors of employees within organi-
zations (Budhwar & Cumming, 2020; Malik & Sanders, 2021). During
organizational crises, transformational leadership plays a crucial role in
helping organizations overcome difficulties and challenges. From a clas-
sical perspective, transformational leadership is defined as a leadership
approach in which a leader transforms his followers, inspires them, builds
trust, encourages them, admires their innovative ideas, and develops
them (Bass, 1985). From a contemporary perspective, emerging research
suggests that through transformational leadership, employees can be
encouraged, inspired, and motivated to innovate, accept changes, take
more challenges, and contribute to the organization’s development when
faced with organizational crises (Schaedler et al., 2022). In this way,
28 R. SINGH AND S. RAMDEO
Research Gaps
The research overview on innovative HRM and OB responses to organi-
zational crises in this chapter covers the core areas where management
research has indeed been conducted, areas which are still developing.
From a practical perspective, organizational crises are an undeniable
feature of the organizational environment within which organizations
operate today. From a research perspective, however, the managerial liter-
ature has lagged in providing coherent HRM and OB perspectives to
assist with theoretical development in this area. In this regard, several
research gaps emerge, which are worthy of future exploration. Future
research can:
Conclusion
Organizational crises within the dynamic organizational environment are
a feature of the undeniable reality that all businesses face today. Accord-
ingly, within managerial research, studies are ongoing to explore the
innovative responses that can be used to manage and understand such
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