Integrating Humanity into Human Resource Practices: Scale Development and Construct Validation

The purpose of this paper is to promote humanity as a key component of human resource practices to fill the gap in the literature and to meet the growing trend to soften human resource practices in the real world. We conducted three studies to explore humanistic human resource practices in companies, develop the full scale of "high humanity human resource practices" (HHHRP) and finally empirically validate the construct. The results show support for the 5-dimension HHHRP scale used as an antecedent of employee well-being and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) through the mediation of perceived meaningfulness of work. Scale reliability and evidence for construct validity are reported. Implications for future research and practices are also provided.