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Do Employees Approve the Availability of High Performance Work Practices in Indian Organisations?: an Evaluative Study


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1 Professor and Dean, Haryana School of Business, and Director, Academic Staff College, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India
2 Research Scholar, Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India
     

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High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) has come out to limelight with growing emphasis on human aspect of the work in addition to concern for productivity or profitability, in this background employees' perception have been found to have a major impact on the success of a practice. Because HPWPs are concerned with human aspect of the work thus they are considered as a tool of value creation and value enhancement for the organisation. The present paper attempts to access the employees' perception regarding availability of the HPWPs. In all, 35 dimensions of HPWPs were identified by the researchers and the perception was assessed on five point scale. Here employees' perception comes out to be in 'Fairly Effective' category of five-point rating scale. The categorization of HPWPs has been done by applying factor analysis and the variations in employees' perception have been studied by applying t-test. Factorial design has been used to discuss interaction effect of more than two variables like that of gender, sector, nature of organisation etc.
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B.K Punia
Professor and Dean, Haryana School of Business, and Director, Academic Staff College, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India
Naval Garg
Research Scholar, Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India

Abstract


High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) has come out to limelight with growing emphasis on human aspect of the work in addition to concern for productivity or profitability, in this background employees' perception have been found to have a major impact on the success of a practice. Because HPWPs are concerned with human aspect of the work thus they are considered as a tool of value creation and value enhancement for the organisation. The present paper attempts to access the employees' perception regarding availability of the HPWPs. In all, 35 dimensions of HPWPs were identified by the researchers and the perception was assessed on five point scale. Here employees' perception comes out to be in 'Fairly Effective' category of five-point rating scale. The categorization of HPWPs has been done by applying factor analysis and the variations in employees' perception have been studied by applying t-test. Factorial design has been used to discuss interaction effect of more than two variables like that of gender, sector, nature of organisation etc.

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