Shut the fridge door! HRM alignment, job redesign and energy performance

Christina, Sian, Dainty, Andrew, Daniels, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-886X, Tregaskis, Olga ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9954-5152 and Waterson, Patrick (2017) Shut the fridge door! HRM alignment, job redesign and energy performance. Human Resource Management Journal, 27 (3). 382–402. ISSN 0954-5395

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Abstract

Anchored within the strategic HRM and alignment literature, and drawing on efficiency and legitimacy perspectives of organisational behaviour, we investigated a Human Resource Management (HRM) intervention targeted at energy reduction goals in a large multinational retailer. The HRM intervention was focused on embedding the environmental and economic performance goals of the firm within the workplace through redesigning the job so that energy tasks were aligned with training and performance management systems, as well as organisational performance goals. Using a randomised control trial design, we tracked changes in energy behaviours and energy consumption in 769 retail stores (685 in the intervention condition, 84 in the control condition). The findings provide evidence that changing the alignment of HRM practices can influence both worker behaviour and organisational outcomes, including environmental outcomes. This work contributes to debates concerning the impact of HRM alignment to both the work and organisational performance context.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sustainable hrm,job design,strategic hrm,organisational performance,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2017 00:05
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 02:05
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61983
DOI:	10.1111/1748-8583.12144

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