Although many studies, such as Ball (2001), Chapman and Webster (2003), and West and Berman (2001) have shown how e-recruiting and e-selection, e-reward and e-relations, and e-training and e-development can be used at an human resource management (HRM) resourcing, administrative, or learning-level, respectively, the formulation of e-HRM strategies relating HRM policies with business performance have been largely neglected (Lengnick-Hall & Moritz, 2003). The major contributing factor to this negligence may be the difficulty in developing a framework that distinguishes between context, configuration, and consequences of e-HRM, due to the fact that e-HRM is functioning at different but complex and interrelated levels (Strohmeier, 2007). In this article, the inclusion of e-resourcing, and more specifically e-recruiting and e-selection, in an HRM-performance linkage model is presented. Considering that the initial intention of the development of HRM-performance linkage models was not to serve e-HRM, the scope of this article is to adapt an HRM-performance linkage model to e-HRM. To do this, an integrative framework for understanding the link between Human Resource Management and Business Performance is presented and then the integration of e-resourcing in this framework is proposed, providing thus new knowledge on effective e-HRM performance linkage models.
The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Perceived Business Performance: Evidence from Sri Lankan Manufacturing Firms
