Towards defining HR Systems: Preliminary Insights from Romanian Business Context

Starting 1990's, the international literature on organizational studies abound in hundreds of articles on HRM-performance link topic, many researchers trying o demonstrate it and lately to explain it. While at the beginnings, studies approached the HRM concept as a selection of individual practices, afterwards the systemic approach proved its effectiveness in reaching organizational performance. Therefore international researchers started to define HR systems and to identify its features. Unfortunatly we cannot say the same thing about Romanian research. Even though the HR system concept is used by practitioners, it isn’t supported enought among academics. This paper aims to overcome this fact by defining the HR systems and investigating them features and typologies into Romanian business context. Futhermore the study identifies variables (e.g. organization's dimension, profile) towards a HR system is designed. In order to achieve this purpose structured interviews were conducted among Romanian HR experts (practitioners and academics). Results show that HR systems framework in Romanian context is similar with the one defined into international research. However some traits were identified.