The Impact of Human Resource Development on Organizational Effectiveness: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Human resource development is a relatively new area of professional practice and academic study. Over the past two decades, human resource development has become the fastest growing area of management development, due to the great interest of organizations in the face of intense competition and changes in the business environment. Despite this significance of HRD but, there is a lack of empirical researches or studies have specifically dealt with examining how HRD practices effect on organizational effectiveness practically, in universities and institute level. This study tries to address this gap. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between the practices of human resource development and organizational effectiveness in the Iraqi public universities context. This study adopted the survey method to collect primary data. The survey was created by the google-forms tool, which is commonly used by researchers for collecting data. The web-based questionnaires were distributed through E-mail designed to collect the relevant data from the public universities of Iraq including a number of deans, heads of departments, faculty members and principals of the execution units which seems to provide a corresponding sample for conducting data collecting and analyzing. An online questionnaire was distributed to around 342 employees, out of which 215 complete questionnaires were obtained. For analyzing the data, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modeling (SEM) were used. This study finds that HRD practices such as talent development, training and development, organizational development and career development have a positive and significant impact on organizational effectiveness. This study has confirmed the significance of HRD practices and how they are positively related to organizational effectiveness. The results of this study have the potential to help the decision makers of universities to develop effective HRD practices which will enable them to improve employees' competencies in enhancing organizational effectiveness. Also, this study recommends universities' managers to use effective HRD practices which are aimed at building excellent employees' competencies and increase the integration between human resource development and organizational effectiveness.

Exploring the Awareness on Green Human Resource Development Practices among Hotel Industry Employees in Lagos State, Nigeria: A Preliminary Study

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“…(i) (Nwokorie & Obiora, 2018;Idoko & Kasim, 2019;Babagbale, 2020). Despite the several contributions of the field of HRD towards employee and organizational development through training and development (Kareem, 2019;Kareem & Hussein, 2019), it is yet to showcase its potentials towards green training and development for employee and organizational environmental management and performance (Scully-Russ, 2015b; Williams & Turnbull, 2015;Scully-Russ, 2015a;Piwowar-Sulej, 2022). In the context of achieving environmental friendly employees and hotel industry in Nigeria, a conceptual framework is developed.…”

“…For change to occur in organizations, there is the need to invest in human capital, as employees are the most valued assets through which organizations achieve their goals (Ameyaw et al, 2019). Training and development is a subsystem of HRD which help organizations to provide the required skills, competencies, knowledge, and abilities for employee and organizational productivity (Kareem, 2019;Kareem & Hussein, 2019). Hence, green training and development is the process of providing pro-environmental skills, competencies, knowledge, and abilities for employees to help their organizations achieve environmental performance (Ahmad, 2015;Yafi et al, 2021).…”

Relationship of Shyness With Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Career Success

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“Novice nurse and novel coronavirus”—experiences of novice nurses caring for patients diagnosed with COVID‐19 in Thailand

“…Although some of their issues might be similar to those of professional nurses, some may face a wide variety of different problems apart from the normal circumstances described above. The researchers would like to focus on novice nurses as the researchers recognize the importance of developing an in‐depth understanding of all of the organization's personnel as they are valuable human resources and very important to the organization (Kareem, 2019 ; Uddin et al., 2016 ). In particular, a great comprehension is hoping to be gained regarding the novice nurses’ experiences when caring for patients during the COVID‐19 period by using a qualitative descriptive approach.…”