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Questions about whether candidate perceptions of recruitment and selection practices "matter" have been raised for decades. This study tackles such questions by developing a new theoretical framework to understand the business unit-level emergence and consequences of the collective candidate experience, defined as " Applicants' aggregate overall cognitive and affective perceptions based on multiple interactions with a business unit over the course of the entire recruitment and selection process." A theoretical framework is introduced that integrates signaling theory with research from marketing, recruitment, and applicant reactions to propose that the collective candidate experience construct emerges from interactions in unit-specific social, structural, and physical contexts. The construct is further expected to influence new hire outcomes and business unit outcomes. We then test the theorized consequences of the collective candidate experience in a multi-unit quick service restaurant organization. The collective candidate experience is positively associated with collective new hire engagement, which in turn is associated with collective new hire turnover intentions, collective turnover, and collective customer satisfaction. Additional supporting evidence and preliminary measures are provided in online appendices. Overall, this study complements and extends prior research and directs new research by offering a theoretical framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding the impact that employee job performance has on firmvalue creation and capture has been an enduring challenge. Micro management scholarship has focused on employee job performance behavior and rarely considered the extent to which value created by employees is actually appropriable by the employing firm. Simultaneously, macro management scholarship has focused on firm value creation and capture without explicit attention to the nature and types of individual job performance or collective performance processes within firms. Thus, we conceptually integrate strategic management theory on value creation and capture with psychological theory on employee job performance and collective performance, to propose a theory that explains howand when firms will capture value from employee job performance. Heterogeneity in value created and captured by employee job performance is affected by two broad factors: individual (e.g., the type of job performance) and market (e.g., labor market constraints). These insights lead to theoretical and practical advances for both micro and macro fields, suggesting that the relationship between employee job performance and firm value capture is more conditional and context-specific than previously recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including, organizational practices that have had significant impacts on management theorizing and how much good practice can contribute to theory, as well as organizational culture and organizational learning.

During the past 10 years, the field of human capital resources (HCR), often referred to as strategic human capital (SHC), has gained interest in both micro and macro disciplines. This increase in attention from a diverse set of researchers has shifted the focus of the field to topics such as identifying different types of HCR, HCR emergence, and links between collective HCR and higher level outcomes. The first decade of dedicated HCR research led to the growth of distinct research streams and forged its own robust and growing literature. However, after a decade of progress, the field is splintered. To unite the field and create a solid foundation for building future research, we provide a cohesive perspective of lessons learned in the first decade of dedicated HCR research, which has primarily focused on collective HCR. This review examines 194 articles, revealing several themes that have emerged, an integrated model that flows from the review, and rich opportunities for future research to both integrate and expand the growing HCR field for the next decade and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]