Best human resource management practices and firm performance in the Pacific Island countries / Suwastika Naidu and Anand Chand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naidu, Suwastika.

Contributor:

Chand, Anand.

Series:

Business economics in a rapidly-changing world series.

Business economics in a rapidly-changing world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human capital--Islands of the Pacific.

Human capital.

Personnel management--Islands of the Pacific.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The main objective of this research is to develop the 'best HRM practices and firm performance model for the PICs' and test it in three selected PICs (Fiji, Samoa and Tonga). Based on the limitations of the four major theories of HRM and SHRM, this book has extended the four major theories of HRM and SHRM; namely, the Universalistic perspective, Contingency Perspective, Configurational Perspective and Contextual Paradigm. The findings of this book showed that the Contingency Perspective, Configurational Perspective and Contextual Paradigm all apply to the luxury hotels and upmarket hotels in F

Contents:

""BEST HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES""; ""BEST HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""DEFINITIONS""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHORS""; ""Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1.0. INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1. PROBLEM STATEMENT AND RESEARCH GAP""; ""1.2. MAIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS BOOK""; ""1.3. SCOPE OF STUDY""

""1.4. PURPOSE OF STUDY""""1.5. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY""; ""1.6. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY""; ""1.7. ORGANISATION OF THE CHAPTERS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""2.0. INTRODUCTION""; ""2.1. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS""; ""2.2. HRM PRACTICES VS. BEST HRM PRACTICES""; ""2.3. GLOBAL LITERATURE ON HRM PRACTICES IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY""; ""2.4. FOUR MAJOR THEORIES OF HRM AND SHRM""

""2.5. EXISTING THEORIES USED BY THE UNIVERSALISTIC PERSPECTIVE, CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE, CONFIGURATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND CONTEXTUAL PARADIGM""""2.6. MODELS OF BEST HRM PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE""; ""2.7. OTHER INFANT MODELS ON BEST HRM PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE THAT HAS NOT BEEN OPERATIONALIZED IN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Chapter 3: PROPOSED �BEST HRM PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR THE PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES� AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESES""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""3.0. INTRODUCTION""

""3.1. OUTLINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW PROPOSED �BEST HRM PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR THE PICS�""""3.2. UNIQUENESS OF HRM IN THE PICS""; ""3.3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE �BEST HRM PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR THE PICS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Chapter 4: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""4.0. INTRODUCTION""; ""4.1. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS ABOUT THE RESEARCHER""; ""4.2. MAIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS BOOK""; ""4.3. RESEARCH DESIGN""; ""4.4. RESEARCH STRATEGY""; ""4.5. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS""; ""4.6. POPULATION AND SAMPLE""

""4.7. RESEARCH METHODS""""4.8. DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESPONDENTS""; ""4.9. MEASUREMENT OF THE VARIABLES""; ""4.10. DATA COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATION""; ""4.11. EMPIRICAL MODEL SPECIFICATION AND DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES""; ""4.12. RESPONSE BIASES""; ""4.13. PERMISSION TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH""; ""4.14. ASSURANCE OF CONFIDENTIALITY""; ""4.15. PROBLEMS FACED WHILE CONDUCTING THE RESEARCH""; ""4.16. ETHICAL CONSIDERATION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Chapter 5: HRM PRACTICES AND THE HOTELS SECTOR OF FIJI, SAMOA AND TONGA""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""5.0. INTRODUCTION""

""5.1. OVERVIEW OF FIJI AND ITS ECONOMY""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62948-212-9

OCLC:

862746395