Investigating the relationship of human resource management practices and firm performance

This study aims to integrate the relationship of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and firm performance. It will discuss on the issue regarding study trends, research perspective and models in the previous study of HRM and firm performance. Comparisons between approaches and perspective in strategic HRM will be discussed. Development of independent variables discussed based on review of previous literatures. Recommendation will be made based on the discussion to support the research framework. It is argued that there are still need to provide conclusive evidence to find the missing system that support HRM practices to be strategic and how it contributes to firm performance