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THEORETICALDEVELOPMENTINTHEFIELDOF
HUMANRESOURCESMANAGEMENT:
ISSUESANDCHALLENGESFORTHEFUTURE
GeraldR.Ferris,AngelaT.Hall,andM.ToddRoyle
FloridaStateUniversity
JosephJ.Martocchio
UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign
Thefieldofhumanresourcesmanagement(HRM)hasemergedfromtheconceptual,empirical,andpracticalintersectionofseveraldisciplinesincludingpsychology,sociology,economics,andmanagement/organizationsciences.Consequently,theoreticaldevelopmentinthefieldofHRMhasbeenmorepiecemeal,andhasfocusedonmoremiddle-rangeconceptualizations,drivenbytheoryinthesecoredisciplines.TotheextentthatseriouseffortshavebeenmadetodevelopagrandtheoryofHRM,sucheffortshaveneverdrawnmuchattention.Thishasbeenpartiallyduetotheeffortsmade,andpartlyduetoabeliefbysomeHRMscholarsthatitissimplynotpossibletodevelopagrandtheoryofHRMthatwouldfit,service,orbeapplicablefortheentirefield;apositionwithwhichweconcur.However,wedothinkthatconceptualeffortsdirectedatthedevelopmentofintegrativeframeworkscanproveusefulforguidingtheoryandresearchinthefield.ThisarticleprovidesaworkingmultilevelframeworktoguideHRMresearchbasedontheconsensusopinionsofrecentscholars.Also,weprovideabriefhistoricalsketchofimportantdevelopmentsintheevolutionofHRMasanareaofscientificinquiry,andweidentifykeyissuesandchallengesforthefuture.Theory-drivenempiricalresearchisthefoundationoftheorganizationalsciences,withparticular
referenceheretohumanresourcesmanagement.HRM,asitisheredefined,isboththescienceandpracticethatencompassesboththeemployer/employeerelationshipaswellasitsrelevantactions,decisions,andissues.Inpractice,itinvolvesanorganization'sacquisition,development,utilization,andappraisalofemployeeperformance(Ferris,Bamum,Rosen,Holleran,&Dulebohn,1995).Itisquitenaturalforareasofscientificinquirytoperiodicallytakestockoftheirknowledgebase,andassessthestrengths,limitations,contributions,anddeficienciesoftheirtheoreticalandmethodolog-
•Directallcorrespondenceto:
GeraldR.Ferris,DepartmentofManagement,CollegeofBusiness,FloridaStateUniversity,Tallahassee,FL32306-1110,Phone:
(850)644-3548.E-mail:
gfenis@cob.fsu.eduOrganizationalAnalysis,Vol12,No.3,2004,pp.231-254ISSN1551-7470Copyright©2004InformationAgePublishing,Inc.Allrightsofreproductioninanyformreserved.232THEORETICALDEVELOPMENTINTHEFIELDOFHRMicaladvancements.Thisisthetaskweundertakeinthisarticleintheassessmentofthetheoryand
researchstateoftheartinHRM,withparticularemphasisonconceptualdevelopment.Thematerialinthisarticleisorganizedintothreesections.First,wereviewbasicissuesintheorydevelopmentingeneral,andwithrespecttoHRMinparticular.Then,wereviewandassessthescholarlystatusoftheHRMfieldtodayhyfocusingonmajorreviewsofthefieldpublishedoverthepast20years,withparticularreferencetotheorydevelopment,testing,andknowledgeaccumulation.
Third,wediscussimportantissuesandchallengesforthefieldofHRMinthefutureineffortstoadvanceourknowledgebaseandconceptualdevelopment.Finally,weconcludethepaperwithsomefinalthoughtsaboutthefieldofHRM.
ANINTEGRATIVECHARACTERIZATIONOFHRM
Itisimportanttonoteattheoutsetthat,inthisarticle,werefertothetermorganizationalsciencestorefertoabroadconceptualizationofthesystematicstudyoforganizationsandtheemploymentrelationshipswithinthem.Therehavebeenvariousstreamsofscholarlyeffortstodevelopamoreinformedunderstandingofbehaviorinandoforganizations,suchasorganizationaltheory(OT),organizationalbehavior(OB),humanresourcesmanagement(HRM),strategicmanagement(SM),
andindustrialrelations(IR).Moreover,scholarshaveattemptedtocategorizetheselinesofresearchasdistinctfields(Cummings,1978).Forexample,theissuesregardingthedistinctionbetweenHRMandorganizationalbehaviorhavebeendebatedbyscholarsforanumberofyears.SomehaveattemptedtosimplifythisdistinctionbetweenHRMandOBbystatingthatOBmerelyismoreconceptualandHRMmoreapplied;yetdistinctionshavebeenmadealongotherlines(Cummings,1978).Anotherdistinctionthathasbeenusedtodichotomizestreamsofresearchinorganizationalresearchisthecategorizationof"micro"(e.g.,organizationalbehavior,industrial/organizationalpsychology)versus"macro"(e.g.,strategicmanagement,organizationaltheory).Yet,thesedistinctionsaregenerallyarbitrary(Cummings,1978;L.W.Porter,1996).Forexample,thelineofresearchonstrategichumanresourcesmanagement(Huselid,1995)involvesbothmicroissues(e.g.,managementactionstoincreaseemp
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