This study explored the mediating role of job attitudes of employees on the relationship between strategic human resource management and firm performance. To rest this possibility of relationship, it used the 2007 HCCP(Human Capital Corporate Panel) data of KRIVET(Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training).
The main findings of the study are as followed. First, individual human resource management practices, human resource management systems, and roles and activities of human resource department have a direct impact on the firm performance. However, the moderating effect of corporate strategy was not proved. Second, human resource management variables have a positive effect on job attitude variables such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment, in turn, this job attitude variables influenced objective and subjective firm performance. Third, human resource management have an indirect impact on firm performance through job attitudes. Therefore, this study could contribute to the development of framework in strategic human resource management by exploring the mediating variable between human resource management and firm performance and investigating the causal mechanism.
It discussed about theoritical and practical implications of the findings of this study and presented limitation of this study and further research questions.