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Resource type: Journal Articles
Title: The Fit of Employee Ownership with Other Human Resource Management Practices: Theoretical and Empirical Suggestions Regarding the Existence of an Ownership High-Performance Work System
Author(s): Eric Kaarsemaker and Erik Poutsma
Date: 1 January 2006
File:
URL: http://www.ifge-online.org/docftp/Kaarsemaker_Poutsma.pdf
Category: Employee Ownership

This article embeds employee ownership within a strategic human
resource management (SHRM) framework, and in so doing, aims to
redress in part a lack of attention in previous employee ownership
and SHRM literatures. The study extends the configurational
approach to SHRM to include the construct of the workforce
philosophy as the factor that determines the coherence of HRM
systems. Companies that have employee ownership as a central
element and core HRM practice should do two things in order to
ensure that their HRM system is coherent and potentially a highperformance work system (HPWS). First, these firms should
propagate the idea that employees deserve to be co-owners and take
employees seriously as such. Second, the HRM system should reflect this workforce philosophy: the HRM system should contain HRM practices that mirror the rights that make up the very construct of ‘ownership’. The core HRM practices of the ‘ownership-HPWS’, in
addition to employee ownership, are: participation in decisionmaking, profit sharing, information sharing, training for business literacy and mediation.

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