Missing Variables in Theories of Strategic Human Resource Management: Time, Cause, and Individuals**

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Much progress has been made with regard to theory building and application in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) since Wright and McMahan's (1992) critical review. While researchers have increasingly investigated the impact of HR on economic success within the Resource Based view of the firm, and have developed more middle level theories regarding the processes through which HR impacts firm performance, much work still needs to be done. This paper examines how future theorizing in SHRM should explore the concepts of time, cause, and individuals. Such consideration will drive more longitudinal research, more complex causal models, and consideration of multi-level phenomena.

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Missing Variables in Theories of Strategic Human Resource Management: Time, Cause, and Individuals**

"Categorization of data - whether qualitative or quantitative - is not theory. Categorization characterises much of the work...in the realms of business policy / strategy and human resource strategy. "

Samuel Bacharach (1989, 497)

The fact that a firm's people are becoming central to strategic decision-making seems reasonably unarguable. Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) researchers have devoted considerable effort toward demonstrating that the ways that people are managed, particularly through HR practices, have strong empirical relationships with organizational performance (Delery/Doty 1996; Huselid 1995; MacDuffie 1995).

While this empirical attention continues to increase, many researchers have criticized the theoretical underpinnings of the research and called for more specific theoretical models of the processes through which HR practices impact organizational performance (Becker/Gerhart 1996; Dyer/Reeves 1995; Guest 1997; Wright/Gardner 2003). While some strides have been made in conceptually articulating mediating processes between HR practices and organizational performance (e.g., Truss/Gratton 1994; Becker/Huselid/Pickus/Spratt 1997), this literature still leaves room for improvement.

The purpose of t...

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