Finally, this analysis suggests that in order to truly understand how HR practices impact
firm performance, we must measure all the practices, not just those we think are “high
commitment” or “high performance” ones. While the AMO framework provides more specificity
than the unidimensional scale (Delery, 1998; Delery and Shaw, 2001; Lepak et al., 2005) it still
seems to only assess practices that are deemed to have strong positive outcomes. However,
many practices exist that might not meet this criteria but may still impact performance. It would
behoove the field to broaden our measures to include such practices