Special Issue: Strategic human resource management and public sector performance
In May 2015, a seminar dedicated to this special issue on SHRM and public sector performance was organized at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Researchers from all over the world submitted papers to the seminar showing the broad and global interest for SHRM research in the public sector. In the end, six papers were selected for this special issue covering a wide range of HRM themes (e.g. performance management, leadership, team learning, job demands-resources, and person-organization fit), from different countries (Belgium, China, Germany, and the Netherlands), and different services (elderly care, health care, primary and vocational education, and intergovernmental international organizations). The wide range of services offered by public sector organizations provide opportunities to test the effects of context-specific characteristics on HRM, performance and the linkage between the two (see the model by Vandenabeele et al. (Citation2013)).
Guest editors
Eva Knies(Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Paul Boselie(Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Julian Gould-Williams(Cardiff University, UK)
Wouter Vandenabeele(Utrecht University, The Netherlands)