Essay About Best Practice View And Uk Evidence Of The Link

Hr Management Case
Approaches to the strategic management
of people
There are a number of models of SHRM and in this unit we will look at
three:
• The best practice view.
• The best fit view.
• The resource­based approach.
The best practice view
This view starts from the premise that a single set or ‘bundle of HR
policies and practices will lead to better organisational performance,
sustained over a lengthy period, whatever the prevailing business
circumstances.
What are these so­called best practices? Various ‘bundles have been
suggested in research studies (Huselid, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996),
and we would like you to consider one example, the list of eighteen key
practices referred to in the next activity.
CASE STUDY
Read the following article which represents a contemporary view of the best
practice model.
Piece by Piece
by David Guest and Angela Baron, (People Management 20 July 2000)
Evidence showing that it pays to pursue progressive people management
practices continues to mount. After US research findings to this effect came
convincing UK evidence of the link, provided by a University of Sheffield study
of manufacturing companies.
Now, management perceptions of this link are being confirmed by initial
evidence emerging from the first phase of research being carried out for the
CIPD at Birkbeck College, London. The programme is exploring HR
management,