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Journal of Business Ethics
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics 3/2022

27-04-2021 | Original Paper

Attuned HRM Systems for Social Enterprises

Authors: Silvia Dorado, Ying Chen, Andrea M. Prado, Virginia Simon

Published in: Journal of Business Ethics | Issue 3/2022

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Abstract

This paper is motivated by a puzzling observation made when conducting a case study of ProCredit (PC), a well-known social bank. The HR practices that this social enterprise (SE) adopted to cultivate mission identification were unfavorably impacting its retention rate. Building on prior research and our analysis of the case, we argue the need for SEs to embrace HRM systems that are both mission-identification proactive and employee-retention preemptive. It theorizes that these HRM systems should be attuned to the labor market conditions (e.g., market segmentation and competition for employees) that frame how SEs develop and sustain Person-Organization (P-O) fit. Attuned HRM systems are adapted to labor market conditions and tuned to support SEs’ adeptness to operate against the grain of country and industry norms.
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Footnotes
1
PC was founded by merging the banks that its founders (The German Consulting IPC), working as consultants, had founded starting in the 1990s.
 
2
The authors are thankful to one of reviewers from identifying this challenge.
 
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Metadata
Title
Attuned HRM Systems for Social Enterprises
Authors
Silvia Dorado
Ying Chen
Andrea M. Prado
Virginia Simon
Publication date
27-04-2021
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 3/2022
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04821-4

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