Sectoral Variations in High Performance Work Practices: The Indian Scene

Abstract

Increasing popularity of Neo-human relation and Neo-behaviorist schools has emphasized the concepts of employee involvement and employee empowerment. And in this pursuit high performance work practices have gained great significance. Simultaneously there are visible differences in the performance of the public and private sector organizations with private sector firms clearly having an edge over public sector firms. Thus in this light it is interesting to discuss the difference in employees’ perception regarding awareness, availability and effectiveness of HPWPs among public and private sector. Here hypothesis testing concluded significant differences in all three levels among private and public sector. Further all three levels of HPWPs have also been explored through various demographic variables like gender and across various types of organizations like public, private, manufacturing, service etc. Factorial design has been used to explore interaction effect between various demographic variables and two sectors. Further segmentation of 35 HPWPs has been done using factor analysis and T-test has highlighted significance of differences in extracted factors among public and private organizations.