Pm. Wright et al., STRATEGY, CORE COMPETENCE, AND HR INVOLVEMENT AS DETERMINANTS OF HR EFFECTIVENESS AND REFINERY PERFORMANCE, Human resource management, 37(1), 1998, pp. 17-29
This study examines the impact of strategy, core competence, and invol
vement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery m
anagers' evaluation of the effective of HR and out refinery performanc
e among 86 U.S. petrochemical refineries. Survey results indicated tha
t higher involvement of HR in organizational strategy was strongly rel
ated to perceptions of HR effectiveness, and that the relationship was
strongest to the extent that refineries pursued a product innovation
strategy and viewed shilled employees as their core competence. HR inv
olvement was unrelated to refinery performance but was actually negati
vely related when refineries emphasized efficient production as their
core competence. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.