A skill your agent uses 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…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Hrm Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hrm-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hrm-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Human-Resource-Management-Skills/skills/hrm-topic-selection .claude/skills/hrm-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
hrm-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
507 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses 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…

  • Works in 2 steps: Scholarly advance. The question must let… → Practical significance. The question…
  • HRM-practice payoff
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The HRM fit test, Locating the topic in HRM's… and Checklist, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Hrm Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. 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).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Recruiting and HR, Load testing and Hypothesis generation. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • HRM-practice payoff
  • Tasks that involve Recruiting and HR
  • Tasks that involve Load testing

Example prompts

  • “/hrm-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Scholarly advance. The question must let you contribute theoretically, empirically, and/or methodologically — not merely apply known…
  2. Practical significance. The question must have clear implications for workforce policy or HRM practice. This is HRM's signature; a…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Hrm Topic Selection loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 507 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 507 words, ~1,129 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hrm-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
hrm-topic-selection
description
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).

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:

  1. Scholarly advance. The question must let you contribute theoretically, empirically, and/or methodologically — not merely apply known findings to a new sample.
  2. Practical significance. The question must have clear implications for workforce policy or HRM practice. This is HRM's signature; a question with no realistic practice payoff is a desk-reject risk even if rigorous.

A useful framing: whose HR decision changes if you are right? If you cannot name the decision-maker (HR director, line manager, compensation committee, policy-maker) and the choice, the topic is not yet HRM-shaped.

Locating the topic in HRM's space

Candidate phrasingSharpen toward an HRM question
"Personality predicts performance""Which HR practice (selection, development, job design) converts that trait into unit performance — and is the gain worth the cost?"
"Employees are stressed""Does this HR-system feature (workload design, staffing levels, voice mechanisms) cause well-being loss, and what is the policy lever?"
"AI is changing work""How should HR redesign roles, skills, and the employment deal as tasks are automated — with evidence, not prediction?"
"Turnover is costly""Which retention practice works for whom, at what level, and what is the firm-performance return?"

State the level of analysis in the question itself (individual, team/unit, establishment, firm) because HRM is explicitly multi-level and a level mismatch surfaces immediately.

Show full SKILL.md (157 more words)Show less

Checklist

  • The question names an HR phenomenon — a practice, system, the employment relationship, talent, or HR's outcomes — not just a psychological trait
  • You can name the decision-maker and the HR/policy decision your answer changes
  • Both gates clear: a scholarly advance (theory/empirics/method) AND a practice/policy payoff
  • Level of analysis is explicit and the data can speak to it
  • You can say in one sentence why this is HRM and not HRMJ / PPsych / JAP / AMJ
  • The contribution is more than "first study in context X" — there is a mechanism or systemic insight

Anti-patterns

  • Practice-free rigor: a clean micro-effect with no implication any HR function would act on
  • Rigor-free relevance: a topical managerial issue with no theoretical or empirical advance
  • Wrong-sibling fit: a critical employment-relations essay that belongs at HRMJ, or a psychometric scale study that belongs at PPsych
  • Level laundering: a firm-performance claim built only on individual self-reports
  • Trend-chasing: "we study [buzzword]" with no HR-design question underneath

Output format

text
【Journal】Human Resource Management (Wiley "HRM")
【Skill】hrm-topic-selection
【Verdict】fit / sharpen / reroute
【HR phenomenon】practice / system / employment relationship / talent / outcomes
【Decision-maker + decision changed】who acts differently if you're right
【Dual-gate】scholarly advance: ... | practice payoff: ...
【Level of analysis】individual / unit / establishment / firm
【Sibling boundary】why HRM and not HRMJ / PPsych / JAP / AMJ
【Source status】verified / 检索于 2026-06;以官网为准 / 待核实
【Next skill】hrm-theory-development

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Human-Resource-Management-Skills/skills/hrm-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Hrm Topic Selection

What does Hrm Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses 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…. Hrm Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. 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.

When should I use Hrm Topic Selection?

Hrm Topic Selection fits situations like: HRM-practice payoff; tasks that involve Recruiting and HR; tasks that involve Load testing.

How do I install Hrm Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hrm-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Human-Resource-Management-Skills/skills/hrm-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/hrm-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Hrm Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hrm-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Human-Resource-Management-Skills/skills/hrm-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/hrm-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Hrm Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hrm-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hrm-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/hrm-topic-selection, .github/skills/hrm-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/hrm-topic-selection in your project.

What does Hrm Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Hrm Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Hrm Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Hrm Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Hrm Topic Selection use?

Hrm Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Hrm Topic Selection use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Hrm Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Hrm Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.