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This research examines the relationships between human resource system configurations and organizational performance in high technology companies in Taiwan. Configurational perspective is an appropriate approach used in strategic human resource management researches by emphasis of internal fit and external fit of human resource systems. In this research, a preliminary study is applied before the empirical study. Four high technology industries, semi-conductor, communication, optical-electronic and computer related industries, are included. The population contains 239 high technology firms and the sample size is 88.The conclusions are : (1) Appropriate classifications for configurations of human resource systems in high technology companies are "internal system " and "market-type system." Internal systems tend to strengthen their investment in human capital and market-type systems tend to recruit human resources outside. The ratio of internal and market-type systems is about 3:1. (2) Human resource practices have significant impact on indicators of organizational performance like employee attraction, employee relation and managerial performance. (3) Adoption of Human resource system configurations will influence employee attraction and organizational recognition. And, through these two variables, it will impact on managerial performance. (4) Contingencies* effects are little significant. Firms using prospector strategy have similar performance and the other ones using non-prospector strategy will have significant difference.
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