Abstract:
Scholars are directing more attention to employee percep tions of human resources (HR) practices and have explored
issues such as whether and how employees’ idiosyncratic or
collective perceptions of HR practices shape employee out comes. To further this area of research, we seek to deter mine what authors mean when they refer to “employee
perceptions of HR practices”. We review 105 articles from
leading human resource management journals and find
that employee perceptions of HR practices is not a mono lithic concept. Rather, following previous scholars, we iden tify three distinct components of employee perceptions of
HR practices: the ‘what’, ‘how’, and ‘why’. We critically sum marize extant literature on these three components of
employee HR perception and propose future research direc tions, including enriching the theoretical foundations of HR
communication, embracing cross-national contexts, and
enhancing practical relevance.
