Table 1

HRM practices

Control HRMSCommitment HRMSCommon welfare HRMS
Recruitment and selectionSelecting employees with demonstrated job-specific skills. Emphasis on technical selection criteriaSelecting employees that fit into the culture. Emphasis on social selection criteriaSelecting employees who are eager to learn and to challenge their own and other people's ideas. Emphasis on learning capability selection criteria
Training and developmentIndividual competencies. Improve the tasks employees do
Seniority and job performance as criteria for promotion. Vertical promotion
Social or shared competencies. Learning new job skills
Job performance and competences as criteria for promotion. Vertical and horizontal promotion
Focus on human development and growth
Contribution to the company and humanistic traits (compassion, altruism, etc.) as criteria for promotion. Horizontal promotion
Evaluation
Compensation
Job performance appraisal. Individual based. Carried out by managers
Wages based on seniority and job performance (and formal ranking)
Dispersed pay structure. No salary transparency. Individual incentives
Job performance (goals achieved) and individual competences appraisal. Individual- and group-based. Carried out by managers, subordinates and peers
Wages based on job performance and individual competences (and formal rank)
More compressed pay structures. Partial transparency. Individual and team incentives
Self-appraisal and peer reviews. People are assessed by their general contribution to the company. Importance of evaluating altruism, compassion and empathetic behaviors
Wages based on contribution to the company and humanistic traits
Equity and retributive justice. Full salary transparency. Organisational incentives

Source(s): Based on Chiva (2014) 

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