Parenthetically, researchers of human resource management have recently moved away from a Skinnerian-type behavioral paradigm and toward embracing cognitive processes in recruitment and selection, job analysis, training and development, performance appraisal, and compensation. Strategic human resource management research has, how• ever, largely espoused the behavioral paradigm (Jackson, Schuler, & Rivero, 1989;Schuler & Jackson, 1987;Schuler & MacMillan, 1984).