11542: Diverse Views on HRM Implementation Processes and Outcomes: Building an Agenda for Future Research

Saturday, July 26, 2025

08:30 - 10:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m3

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,International,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/9WnmGw

Organizer(s)

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Anna C. Bos-Nehles

U. of Twente, Netherlands
JT

Jordi Trullen

ESADE Business School, Spain

Presenter(s)

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David E. Guest

King's College London, UNITED KINGDOM
JB

Julia Brandl

U. of Innsbruck, Austria
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Karin Sanders

UNSW Business School, Australia, Australia
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Aneeqa Suhail

Human Resource Studies, Tilburg U., Netherlands
JM

Jake Messersmith

U. of Nebraska, Lincoln, United States
AM

Aoife McDermott

Cardiff U., Wales

Discussant(s)

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Mireia Valverde

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

State-of-the-art HRM policies and practices matter for organizational performance and employee well-being. However, it is the implementation of those policies and practices that are key to reaching desired outcomes (Guest, 2021). So far, research on HRM implementation has focused significantly on the role of line managers (Bos-Nehles et al., 2020; Pak et al., 2022; Zhang et al., 2024) as well as on predictors of effective implementation (Mirfakhar et al., 2018). Yet, theoretical and empirical research avenues in this area can be far more diverse, including a focus on the implementation process and the outcomes of HRM implementation (Trullen et al., 2020). This is why this professional development workshop convenes scholars to reflect on HRM implementation from a diversity of perspectives, including the importance of studying both implementation success and failure, the need to introduce novel theoretical perspectives that deal with the multistakeholder nature of implementation, or the importance to introduce well-being considerations in implementing HRM. Combining research presentations with discussion tables and plenary discussions, the PDW is organized in such a way that it will allow participants to familiarize themselves with current work in this domain as well as come up with new research ideas that are relevant both for academia and practitioners.