Are High-Performance Work Systems always a valuable retention tool? The roles of workforce feminization and flexible work arrangements

Stirpe, Luigi; Zárraga Oberty, Celia

Are High-Performance Work Systems always a valuable retention tool? The roles of workforce feminization and flexible work arrangements

Author(s): Stirpe, Luigi; Zárraga Oberty, Celia

Publisher: Elsevier

Issued date: 2017-02-01

Citation: Stirpe, L., & Zárraga-Oberty, C. (2017). Are High-Performance Work Systems always a valuable retention tool? The roles of workforce feminization and flexible work arrangements. European Management Journal, 35 (1), pp. 128-136.

ISSN: 0263-2373

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2016.04.002

xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder: Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital (España)

Sponsor: The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science (ECO2012-37314). The authors acknowledge the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, as the originators of the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study data, and the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex as the distributor of the data.

Project: Gobierno de España. ECO2012-37314

Keywords: Human resource management , High-Performance Work Systems , Workforce feminization , Flexible work arrangements , Retention rate

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/34580

Rights: © Elsevier
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Abstract:

High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) are commonly related to higher rates of employee retention. However, variations in such rates arising from differences in workforce gender composition have hardly been studied, so the aim here is to address these issues bas [+]

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