Sonoco Products

Company

Conceptual background and

Theory
HR alignment with the corporate strategy
High performance work Systems (HPWS)
requires three important elements
1. Workplace opportunities for employees
participation in decision making
2. HR practices that support and enhance workers
skills
3. The incentive for employees to participate

AMO

Conceptual background and

Theory
Research found that the clusters of HR practices
have large effects on productivity.
HPWS were associated with significantly lower
turnover rates, greater employee productivity
(sales per employee), and measures of financial
corporate performance. For example, Huselid
found that a one-standard-deviation increase in
such practices is associated with a relative 7.05
percent decrease in turnover and, on a per
employee basis, $27,044 more in sales and
$18,641 and $3,814 more in market value and
profits, respectively.

Cascade of strategic HR
metrics

Congruence model
organizations

According to the Congruence model alignment

among the critical tasks for the organization

Alignment among the critical Tasks

and
People
Culture
Formal organization