The Determinants and Consequences of High Performance Work Systems
This study attempts to address two ongoing theoretical and empirical questions in the strategic human resource management literature: (1) Do high performance work systems positively influence future firm performance with a control for past firm performance? - causality, in part, in the relationship between HPWS and firm performance and (2) What are the determinants of the adoption of HPWS? Investigating these two questions is critical to help better understand the theoretical and empirical linkage between HPWS and firm performance. This study contributes to the SHRM literature by providing supporting evidence that HPWS predicts future firm performance with a control for past firm performance. In addition, this study sheds lights on the fact that while multiple factors could influence the adoption of popular HPWS, organizational values on HRM are the dominating adoption factor of HPWS.
Summary. This paper presents some results of a case study about the characteristics of the interactions between pupils in groupworks, in the context of an innovative teaching experience of Physics at university level. Videorecordings were carried ou t during classes of the unit on Thermodynamics and some pupils from a focal group were interviewed. Analysis focused on group processes from the linguistic, social and cognitive perspectives. Results suggest that sharing cognitive processes by a group o f student, through reasoning and argumentation, may be an answer to the challenges of teaching practice at university level.