Enhancing NPD Performance through Human Resource Management Practices

Chu-Chun Hsu Hsiao-Yun Liang

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The overall results suggest that HRM practices that facilitate cooperation and knowledge sharing among employees enhance a firm’s innovation supportive culture and social capital, and indirectly promote NPD performance by these organizational mechanisms.

Work design that emphasizes cross-functional coordination and open communication channels may directly and positively influence the social interactions, trust, and shared understanding between employees.

The relationship between HRM practices and innovation performance exists, and specifically with regard to NPD performance.

Appropriate HRM practices can help to build the social networks and cooperation among employees that are vital in the knowledge-sharing and innovative processes.

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