A multilevel model of human capital contribution to company performance: The role of HR practices and the human capital emergence.
(2013) Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management — Location: Orlando, USA (9.August.2013)
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- Abstract
- This research draws on the human capital emergence process and is based on a multilevel perspective. Using a sample of 383 employees from 60 business units from KIFs (Knowledge-Intensive Firms), it contributes to better explain the mechanisms mediating the HR practices – company performance relationship in two complementary ways. First, the results show that the relationship between individual and collective human capital is not systematic, but that individual human capital components emerge at the collective level through the moderator effect of collective affective commitment (considered as an emergence enabling state), and contributes to BU performance. Second, they demonstrate the positive impact of two HR practices bundles on human capital: at the individual level, skill-enhancing practices leverage individual human capital components; at the BU level, empowerment-fostering practices positively impact collective affective commitment, which enables the human capital emergence process.
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Louvain School of Management Strategy and Organisation Louvain School of Management Strategy and Organisation
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Demortier, A.-L., Delobbe, N., & El Akremi, A. (2013). A multilevel model of human capital contribution to company performance: The role of HR practices and the human capital emergence. Proceedings / Academy of Management, 1(12935), 12935. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/218568 (Original work published 2013)