Impact of Human Resource Management Practice and Employees’ Behavioural Outcomes in the Saudi Arabian Manufacturing Sector

Abstract

The significance of Human Resource (HR) practices in enlightening employee attitudes, such as work satisfaction, organizational commitment and job engagement, have been widely researched in the industrial and organizational psychology literature. However, the research has not uncovered contradicting findings about the connections between employee positive and negative behavioural outcomes in the case of organizational change. This research analyzes the impact of human resources management on employee’s behavioural outcomes of organizational change with variables such as organizational commitments, job performance, absenteeism, turnover of employees, employee productivity and workplace bullying in the Saudi Arabia manufacturing sector (e.g. power generation, telecommunications, natural gas exploration, and petrochemical sectors). It is widely acknowledged that the influence of HRM practices may produce a comparative advantage in the performance of organizations with the well-being of the employees. To find the relationship between the variables, the study incorporates descriptive research methodologies and quantitative analysis of a valid questionnaire is performed utilizing stratified and simple, random samples by HR managers and employees. For data interpretation, a questionnaire of self-administered data was collected from a sample of 300 in Saudi Arabia. Employee behavioural outcomes of HRM practices have a significant and positive relationship between Organizational Commitment, Job Performance, Absenteeism, and Employee Productivity. A negative direct relationship is found between employees’ negative behaviour regarding the use of workplace bullying and employee turnover. The instrument’s internal reliability was established to be 0.793. Followed by inferential evaluations, a significance-level T-Test assessment for the benefit of the manufacturing sector evaluates the Hypothesis Test for HRM practice. The study has some limitations. Although data were collected from various sectors in Saudi Arabia, the findings of the study have limited generalizability. Future studies could extend the analysis to include other workplaces. This is the study of the factors affecting the organizational change of employees’ positive and negative behaviour outcomes which impact organisational growth and employee wellbeing. This study will contribute to the development of the Saudi Arabian power generation, telecommunications, natural gas exploration, and petrochemical sectors sector, which may lead to maintaining this sector work effectively that will have a positive impact on the economy of Saudi society.