Best human resource management practices and firm performance in the Pacific Island countries / Suwastika Naidu and Anand Chand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and definitions -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Literature review and theoretical frameworks -- Proposed "best HRM practices and firm performance model for the Pacific Island countries" and research hypotheses -- Research methodology -- HRM practices and the hotels sector of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga -- Research findings and data analysis for three PICs : Fiji, Samoa and Tonga -- Summary, recommendations, implications and conclusion -- Face to face interviews -- Bibliography -- Index.

The main objective of this research is to develop the 'best HRM practices and firm performance model for the PICs' and test it in three selected PICs (Fiji, Samoa and Tonga). Based on the limitations of the four major theories of HRM and SHRM, this book has extended the four major theories of HRM and SHRM; namely, the Universalistic perspective, Contingency Perspective, Configurational Perspective and Contextual Paradigm. The findings of this book showed that the Contingency Perspective, Configurational Perspective and Contextual Paradigm all apply to the luxury hotels and upmarket hotels in F.

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