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Use when scoping or stress-testing the research question for a Human Resource Management (Wiley "HRM") manuscript — confirming an HR-system/practice phenomenon with both a scholarly advance and a workforce-policy or HRM-practice payoff. Locks the question; it does not build the theory (hrm-theory-development).

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# Topic Selection (hrm-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- The phenomenon is interesting but you cannot name what HR leaders or policy-makers would do differently
- The question reads like a Personnel Psychology / JAP micro-study with no HR-system, unit, or firm tie
- You are unsure whether the paper belongs at HRM or at HRMJ (the UK journal), JOM, or AMJ
- A coauthor asks "is this an HRM paper?" and the answer is really "it's adjacent"
- The topic is a managerial trend with no scholarly contribution to anchor it

## The HRM fit test

*Human Resource Management* (Wiley) rewards questions about **how HR is designed, enacted, and experienced — and why that matters for people and for the organization**. The journal explicitly spans **micro, macro, and multi-level** phenomena and accepts conceptual, empirical, meta-analytic, and critical-review work. But two gates decide fit, and a topic must clear **both**:
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