Performance Management: Putting Research into Action

The Science-Practice Divide and Performance Management

There is a documented gap between research conducted by human resource management (HRM) and industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology academics and the practice of HRM and I/O psychology in organizations. For the most part, academics conduct research on topics only tangentially relevant to practitioners and, on the other side of the divide, practitioners implement practices that do not seem to be based on rigorous research (Cascio & Aguinis, 2008a; Rynes, Colbert, & Brown, 2002; Rynes, Giluk, & Brown, 2007). Muchinsky (2004) noted that, unfortunately, researchers, in general, are not necessarily concerned about how their theories, principles, and methods are put into practice outside ...