Sustainable and flexible human resource management for innovative organizations
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Keywords
Innovative Organization, Sustainability, Psychological Capital, Flexibility, Human resource management.
Abstract
In response to the changes in economies and technology in recent decades, research in organizational theories have been focused toward innovative and entrepreneurial organizations. A research issue in this evolving research endeavor is adaptation of human resource management and the establishment of a sustainable human resource management. This paper investigates the main characteristics of a sustainable HRM in innovative organizations. The aim is to identify sustainable HRM as a key toward competing in turbulent markets. The problem statement is to find the relationship between psychological capital, HR flexibility and sustainable HRM in innovative organizations. Three main variables of HR flexibility, HR sustainability and psychological capital form the theoretical model of this study; and four hypotheses are developed based on this model. Findings do not reject any of four hypotheses, so it is concluded that psychological capital and HR flexibility has positive and meaningful effect on sustainable HRM; and in addition, psychological capital has positive and meaningful effect on sustainable HRM. Moreover, flexibility has moderate role in relationship between psychological capital and sustainable HRM.
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Wright, P. M., & Snell, S. A. (1998). Toward a unifying framework for exploring fit and flexibility in strategic human resource management. Academy of management review, 23(4), 756-772.
Zárraga-Rodríguez, M., & Álvarez, M. J. (2015). Innovation Capability and the Feeling of Being an Innovative Organization. In Enhancing Synergies in a Collaborative Environment (pp. 343-350). Springer International Publishing.
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Aibaghi Esfahani, S., Rezaii, H., Koochmeshki, N., & Sharifi Parsa, S. (2017). Sustainable and flexible human resource management for innovative organizations. AD-Minister, (30), 195–215. https://doi.org/10.17230/ad-minister.30.10
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Saeed Aibaghi Esfahani, Shahrood University of Technology
Assistant professor at the Faculty of industrial engineering and management, Shahrood University of Technology. He earned his PhD and MA in human resource management from University of Tehran and has published many articles in HRM journals and participated in several national and international conferences. His main areas of interest are: startups, sustainability, Innovative organizations.
Hamid Rezaii, Shahrood University of technology
BA in Electrical Engineering with specialty in control systems and is a MA student in Shahrood University of technology. His interests include sustainability in human resource management, Innovative or- ganizations, society human resource management. Institutional Email address:Niloofar Koochmeshki, Shahrood University of technology
BA in electrical engineering with specialty in Telecommunication system and is a MA student in Shahrood University of technology. Her interests include sustainability in HRM, Innovative organiza- tions.
Saeed Sharifi Parsa, Shahrood University of technology
BA in chemistry enginnering and is a MA student in Shahrood University of technology. His interests include sustainability in human resource management, Innovative organizations. Institutional Email address:Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
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