ANA RITA FACCHINI

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This study approaches the relations between human resource practices, commitment and organizational performance. It primarily aims at the development of a technical descriptive model to explain how the perception of human resource practices influence both the commitment and organizational performance. Previous research has indicated the existence of relation between human resources practices and enterprise performance, as well as human resources practices and organizational commitment, without, however, establishing consistent causal relations. The objective of this study was achieved through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodological procedures. A first step, called exploratory, was based on in-depth interviews with executives of major companies in their productive segments from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, The interviews were used to elaborate the scale of the construct ‘HR Practices’. The second stage–qualitative-was based on a case study in an industrial group with multiple facilities located in the State of São Paulo. The perception of employees about HR practices was investigated through a survey. The degree of organizational commitment was measured using the Meyer and Allen (1991) scale. The performance measures were objective, meaning that real performance indicators were supplied by the company. The Structural Equation Modeling was used in order to test the relations between research constructs. The results indicate a strong association between the three constructs employed, and the measurement scales seem to be valid. The model parameters suggest that the perception of the HR …

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