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.
Mehdi Haghighi Kafash; Nader Mazloumi; Farzaneh Mirzamohammadi
Volume 21, Issue 64 , August 2011, , Pages 117-139
Abstract
Should the human resource managers be concerned about cynicism and should they attempt to respond to it or not, depends mostly on whether cynicism has any negative effects on employees or their organizations. Many researchers have found that there is a relation between organizational ...
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Should the human resource managers be concerned about cynicism and should they attempt to respond to it or not, depends mostly on whether cynicism has any negative effects on employees or their organizations. Many researchers have found that there is a relation between organizational cynicism and many variables such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational alienation, and organizational citizenship behavior. As many studies have shown, Cynicism has been associated with negative consequences respectingthe employees. Employees that are cynical about their organization, experience a variety of negative emotions, including distress, disgust and even shame when they think of their organizations. Thesenegative emotions result in emotional fatigue and depression. In this study it is attempted to investigate the causes and consequences of organizational cynicism in the Parsian Electronic Commerce Company. For the testing of research hypotheses, structural equation model (SEM) was used. The test results indicated that psychologicalcontract violation, organizational justice, and perceived organizationalsupport, affect the employee’s organizational cynicism; also thatorganizational cynicism has an effect on employee’s organizationalcommitment, organizational citizenship behavior, and theircounterproductive work behavior.
