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¶ … HRM
The main purpose of this peer-reviewed article is:
The author, Bruce E. Kaufman, is putting forth the idea that research and scholarship on strategic human resource management has been avoided or ignored -- and that there needs to be better approaches to the challenges related to HMR. In fact Kaufman, who is an economics professor at Georgia State University, gives scholars that are involved with human resource management research a "D to F" grade for their lack of insightfulness (Kaufman, 2012). Kaufman offers a plethora of reasons why he is convinced that the research into SHMR and HMR is either incomplete or it is not being utilized effectively. He criticizes the "overreliance on knowledge areas and perspectives" that relate to strategy, organizational behavior and psychology (12). The author claims that not enough attention has been paid to HMR issues relating to "external dimensions," including "…economics, industrial / employment relations, and the macro side of sociology" (12).
On pages 14-15 Kaufman explains that even though the peer-reviewed journal, Human Resource Management, claims its scholarship "…strives to create a bridge between academic work (research and theory) and real-world practices," the truth is that the substantial research from the HRM academics is largely ignored. And as a result, organizations typically "…fail to adopt practices that research has shown to be effective," and moreover, the "disconnect" between the knowledge that the academic community is producing and...
First, much of the research produced is "seriously flawed and inaccurate in its theory"; secondly, the research is far too "broadly or amorphously framed" for HR managers to glean "actionable" principles from it; and thirdly, the academic research fails to deal with "HRM subject areas that are germane" and that add value to those managers (Kaufman, 14).
Kaufman cites research by Rynes et al. (2007); those authors contacted 208 editorial board members of scholarly journals related to HR and asked those 208 board members to list "the five most fundamental findings from HR research that all practicing managers should know" (15). Of those 208 board members, eighty-five contributed "usable answers," Kaufman reports.…
Works Cited
Kaufman, B.E. (2012). Strategic Human Resource Management Research in the United
States: A Failing Grade After 30 Years? Academy of Management Perspectives, 26(2),
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