The Influence of Professionalism on Actors' Social Exchange Structure in High-Performance Work System Implementation from an Institutional Perspective: a Study of Managers in the Saudi Banking Sector

Author(s):  
Hayam Binjabi
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 488-495
Author(s):  
Rethy B Menon ◽  
Mahesh Krishnan

This article deals with effect over the performance of the employees using the High Performance Work System implementation and it’s elements in the IT sector. High Performance Work System (HPWS) is a practice in the Human Resource Management which focuses on developing and enhancing selective hiring, ensuring employee security enforcing localised decision-making promising compensation based on high results, providing employees training by their dedication, reducing ranking bias in remuneration and ensuring passing of statistics. Data where obtained from 150 respondents where all are employees working in TCS and INFOSYS. Correlation and T-Test was done to derive the results. Findings of the study revealed that HPWS practises are positively linked with employee performance. Limitations and observations of this study are also discussed accordingly.


Author(s):  
Noor Hassanah Husin ◽  
Nur Naha Abu Mansur ◽  
Nur Naha Abu Mansur ◽  
Beni Widarman Yus Kelana

Innovation plays a major role and is a crucial component of the organization’s growth. Creativity and innovation have become increasingly popular as key contributors to firm success in the last few decades or so. The incoming technology of Industrial Revolution 4.0 forced many companies to be innovative to compete in technological era. However, many SMEs are not ready and less innovative. Furthermore, there is lack of research focus on HPWS implementation amongst SMEs indicates that further research must be conducted along these lines. Therefore, this study aim to investigate the effect of high performance work system (HPWS) towards innovative work behaviour of employees in small and medium enterprises. This study used quantitative approach to identify the critical success factor of high performance work systems (HPWS) in Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SME) manufacturing industry. This study used descriptive analysis to analyze the data. Five-point Likert scales items ranging from (1-strongly disagree, 5 – strongly agree) employed for measuring the HPWS. Therefore, the total of 81 items survey questions were adapted to obtain the respondents for SME manufacturing industry. Reliability analysis shows that all the HPWS dimensions have very good reliability with Cronbach’s alpha value range from 0.884 to 0.976. According to Tang et al (2014), Cronbach’s alpha range between 0.70 and 0.80 considered as good reliability whereby 0.80 and 0.90 considered as very good reliability. Result also showed that selective staffing has the highest mean score followed by employee participation, which are 3.951 and 3.833 respectively. This proved that selective staffing is most important critical success factor in the HPWS implementation for Malaysian SME manufacturing industry. Keywords: high performance work system, work engagement, innovative work behaviour, small and medium enterprise.


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