| dc.description.abstract | The organization needs to be fully informed about the environment in order to manage the uncertainty effectively. Organizations collect and handle environmental information via boundary spanning activities, and deliver the information to decision makers in the organization for timely decisions. Studies have proven that the needs for information by organizations will increase with the environmental change, and that organizations will acquire, control, and disseminate the information needed via cross boundary activities in order to reduce the uncertainty and to improve performance. The recent change in the market has resulted in a more complex environment and higher demand for human resources professionals to cope with the increasing uncertainty. As a result, “Strategic Human Resources” emerged as the focus of human sources management emphasizing that human resources as a strategic partner of the organization. To transform to the new role, human resources personnel have to actively participate in the organization change and strategic development process. Thus, it is required for human resources department to understand and manage the environmental information effectively in order to increase the value of human resources department to the organization.
The purpose of this study is to understand the boundary spanning role of human resources department in an organization, and the relationship of organizational boundary spanning activities performed by human resources department and the inclination of organization to adopt the high performance work practices (HPWPs). Sampling from 921 public traded companies from electronic and manufacturing industries, a total of 135 valid questionnaires were received, and the valid respondent rate is 14.7%. The findings from the study are: 1. The boundary spanning activities of information acquisition has positive influence on recruiting & selection, compensation, training & development, communication, and employee participation, while no significant influence on performance management practices was observed. 2. The boundary spanning activities of information control has positive influence on recruiting & selection, performance management, compensation, training & development, communication, and employee participation. 3. The boundary spanning activities of physical input control has positive influence on recruiting & selection, performance management, compensation, training & development, communication, as well as employee participation. | en_US |