This book provides one of the most comprehensive examinations of human resource outsourcing (HRO) to date. Dealing conceptually and empirically with the important question of how to strategically outsource a core business process like human resource management (HRM) Norman shares a wealth of data gathered from surveys and interviews with several hundred companies to analyze the outsourcing decision. A conceptual model is developed to test several hypotheses about process attributes associated with the suitability of HRO such as complexity, frequency, firm-specificity, interdependence,...