In this study we looked upon the employee advocacy role of the HR department
(Ulrich & Brockbank, 2005). It may be interesting to extend our focus to the advisory and
support role of the HR department towards line management, and more specifically to
examine whether high-quality advise and support creates an important leverage for line
management’s HR enactment. Moreover, strong support by the HR department may also
signal to line managers the importance of high-level performance in their HR tasks (thereby
contributing to employees’ affective commitment)