Description:
This paper reports the results of a national research project into the impact of human resource management practices on teaching and learning performance in TAFE Institutes in Australia. The research and literature on human resource management and, more recently, on high performance work systems has suggested strongly that the implementation of more sophisticated policies of human resource management will result in higher levels of organisational performance. This research project tests this theory in the context of vocational education and training (VET). The research examines the formulation and implementation of human resource management practices in TAFE institutes. The project involved a survey of TAFE institutes which established the form and extent of human resource management and a series of case studies investigating the impact of human resource management on teaching and learning and other aspects of organisational performance.