Are high‐performance work practices (HPWPs) enabling or disabling? Exploring the relationship between selected HPWPs and work‐related disability disadvantage

Hoque, Kim, Wass, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0718-7651, Bacon, Nicolas and Jones, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0535-8090 2018. Are high‐performance work practices (HPWPs) enabling or disabling? Exploring the relationship between selected HPWPs and work‐related disability disadvantage. Human Resource Management 57 (2) , pp. 499-513. 10.1002/hrm.21881

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Abstract

We develop the organizational characteristics element of Stone and Colella’s (1996) framework by drawing on the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) model to assess the relationship between High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) and work-related disability disadvantage. We develop competing ‘enabling’ and ‘disabling’ hypotheses concerning the influence of selected HPWPs (competency testing, performance appraisal, individual performance-related pay, teamworking and functional flexibility) on disabled relative to nondisabled employees. An empirical assessment of these competing hypotheses using matched employer-employee data from the nationally representative British Workplace Employment Relations Study 2011 reveals a negative relationship between these HPWPs when used in combination and the proportion of disabled employees at the workplace, although this relationship disappears in workplaces with a wide range of disability equality practices. Although disabled employees report lower work-related well-being than their non-disabled counterparts we find limited evidence that this is associated with the presence of HPWPs.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ability-motivation-opportunity, disability, high performance work practices, well-being at work, strategic human resource management
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0090-4848
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 February 2017
Date of Acceptance:	13 February 2017
Last Modified:	20 Nov 2024 00:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98291

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