Human Resource Management for Continuous Improvement

This paper investigates the relationship between HRM practices and Continuous Improvement(CI) activities in order to gain an understanding of how the HRM function may beutilized to improve CI implementation success, and consequently, company performance. Thepaper begins with a brief review of the HRM and CI literature and then presents statisticalanalyses of data collected from the Continuous Improvement Network Survey (2003), whichdemonstrate that HRM has a significant effect on CI behaviour and company performance,with the strongest relationship between HRM, CI and performance occurring when companiesalign their CI activities with their strategic objectives and use systems, procedures and processesto measure the results of their CI activities