Mechanism of Transition in Nonprofit Human Resource Architecture from a Negotiated Order Perspective

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The purpose of this study is to show the mechanism by which the human resource architecture, a bundle of human resource policies, transitions from one type to another through a case analysis of a nonprofit organization (NPO). Specifically, adopting a perspective of “negotiated order” (Strauss, 1978), the mechanism by which negotiations on understandable contexts and issues are formed between the management and employees in the process of expanding human resource policies along with organizational development—and then creating a new human resource architecture— is demonstrated. Through the analysis of the case, propositions regarding conditions for the transitions in the human resource architecture and theoretical implications for non-profit human resource research are presented.