A contingency model describing the moderating effects of perceived environmental uncertainty on the relationship between human resource flexibility (HR flexibility) and firm performance was proposed and tested. This study aimed to examine the relationship between different dimensions of HR flexibility and firm performance and further investigated the moderating effect of environmental uncertainty on this relationship.
A survey research was conducted using a sample of publicly traded firms listed in Taiwan Economic Journal data bank. Data was collected from different sources, including the opinions of CEO and HR managers in each company and the public disclosure of corporate information. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses.
After collecting empirical data and performing the factor analysis, five dimensions of HR flexibility, including behavior flexibility, skill flexibility, financial flexibility, functional flexibility, and market-oriented flexibility, were identified in this study. By testing Hypothesis1, results showed that skill flexibility, functional flexibility and market-oriented could predict some of the performance measures. However, behavior flexibility and financial flexibility had no significant influence on any firm performance measures. By testing Hypothesis2, three dimensions of environmental uncertainty were identified first. They were response uncertainty, effect uncertainty, and state uncertainty. Then, the results of the hierarchical regression models supported the argument that effect uncertainty positively moderated the influence of behavior, skill and functional flexibility on firm performance. But, the moderating effects of response and state uncertainty were not supported. Implications and future research directions were suggested in the final part of this study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0724106-032443 |
| Date | 24 July 2006 |
| Creators | Wu, Shu-Ling |
| Contributors | Shyh-Jer Chen, CHENG-CHEN LIN, Ying-Jung Yeh, JYH-JER ROGER KO, Huang, Liang-Chih, Jin-Feng Uen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0724106-032443 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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