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Identification of factors of Hard and Soft Human Resource Management Practices

  • Goyal, Charu (Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management) ;
  • Patwardhan, Manoj (Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management)
  • Received : 2020.01.05
  • Accepted : 2020.11.09
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

The Human Resource (HR) system comprises of various interrelated HR practices that forms the bundles. These bundles of Human Resource practices impact the organizational performance. The hard and soft HR bundles are the two sets of the same continuum that describes the strategic approach of the HR system. The purpose of this study is to identify the hard and soft HRM practices from the literature and then empirically test them with the help of factor analysis. The study is conducted on the service industry employees in India. The survey includes the employees from the middle and top-level executives of the service firms. The sample size for the study is 160. Principal component analysis with VARIMAX rotation and Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to obtain the results. The data analysis was done on SPSS V.20 and AMOS V.22. The results provide knowledge of the HR practices under the hard and soft HRM bundles implemented in the service industry.

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