High Performing Human Resource Management Practices and Employees’ Job Performance; A Conceptual Paper from the Vertical and Horizontal Fit Perspective.

Purpose: Employees’ Job Performance plays an important role in organizations that provide high-quality products and services, and customer centrality serves as a strategy used to maintain competitive advantages in an ever-evolving business environment. Therefore, job performance can be affected by the context of an organization’s business strategy, for example, Customer Oriented Business Strategy (COBS), called vertical fit. The implementation of High Performing Human Resource Management Practices (HPHRMP) on a bundling basis ensures that there is an interaction among them that is known as horizontal fit in an organization. Therefore, this paper discusses how HPHRMP is essential to enhance the performance of employees and organizations from the vertical fit and horizontal fit perspectives. Design/Methodology: The paper focuses on model development and is anchored on the deductive approach within the positivism paradigm. The Job Demand Resource Theory and Resource Based View Theory have been used to strengthen the theoretical foundation. Implications: The paper highlights certain theoretical implications for academia and managerial implications for organizations’ management. Originality/Value: This paper adds value and knowledge to the academia as well as to the corporate world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Sri Lankan Journal of Management is the property of Postgraduate Institute of Management and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)