How is human resource management research (not) helping practice? In defence of practical implications
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2020
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Abstract
This article provokes that human resource management
(HRM) research is a long way from helping practice. Follow ing a review of HRM empirical articles published in 2018, we
show the limited focus academic journals place on practical
implications. We provoke that HRM journals are failing to ‘do
the right thing’ by not requiring authors to pay enough atten tion to communicating the practical implications of their re search. In half of the articles that we reviewed (n = 324) less
than 2% of the text focuses on practical implications. We also
found that where practical implications were offered, they
were often obscure, implicit, and used unintelligible terms.
We argue for extensive practical implications to be included
in publications that provide an impetus to research relevant
topics and close the knowledge-translation gap
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HR practices, HRM practice, HRM research