Human Resource Management
ali shariatnejad; Seyedeh Maryam Mousavi zadeh
Abstract
The only constant principle in our world today is change, in such a way that change has become a constant element of today's equations. Change and transformation has caused new stimuli in the business world and has made flexibility skills an important necessity. Therefore, the current ...
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The only constant principle in our world today is change, in such a way that change has become a constant element of today's equations. Change and transformation has caused new stimuli in the business world and has made flexibility skills an important necessity. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of recognizing and understanding the cognitive flexibility skills of managers with the FCM method. This research is applied in terms of purpose and it is survey and exploratory research in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the research consists of experts including industrial and organizational psychologists and managers of knowledge-based companies, whose sample members were selected using the purposeful sampling method and based on the principle of theoretical saturation. The data collection tool is interview in the qualitative part and a questionnaire in the quantitative part. The validity and reliability of the tools have been analyzed using content validity and intra-coder-inter-coder reliability for the interview and content validity and retest reliability for the questionnaire, respectively. In this research, content analysis and coding method was used in qualitative part and fuzzy mapping method (FCM) in quantitative part for data analysis.
Mir Ali Seyed Naghavi; Mahdi Haghighi Kaffash; Vahid Najafi Kalyani
Volume 21, Issue 67 , April 2012, , Pages 129-153
Abstract
Human resource flexibility has become an undeniable imperative in the uncertainty and dynamic environment of today since it gives organization the appropriate response to the fast environmental changes. While researchers in strategic human resource management consider human resource flexibility as a ...
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Human resource flexibility has become an undeniable imperative in the uncertainty and dynamic environment of today since it gives organization the appropriate response to the fast environmental changes. While researchers in strategic human resource management consider human resource flexibility as a source of sustainable competitive advantage for the firms, the process through which human resource flexibility have been affected organizational performance has not been empirically investigated. Based on the study of 123 organizational units in 17 insurance companies operating in Iran, this paper tries to clarify the content of the causal relationship between human resource flexibility and organizational performance by extending and testing the causal model. Evidence indicates that HR flexibility has a positive effect on the organizational performance in insurance companies. Results of structural equation modeling of the causal model indicate that all the path’s coefficients are significant, so all the research hypotheses are supported. The research findings suggest that, between the dimensions of HR flexibility, skill flexibility has the greatest effect on the organizational performance. Therefore, employee skills and their ability to acquire new skills, play an important role in competitive advantage and performance in insurance companies.
