Introduction Human service nonprofits provide labor-intensive services and, as such, employees are a major factor in determining organizational success (Maelicke, 2004). Thus, nonprofits involved in human services are highly dependent on the quality, motivation, and satisfaction of their employees for the delivery of their services (Akingbola, 2006). Job satisfaction is influenced by many endog...

BACKGROUND Human resource management (HRM) practices have the potential to influence the retention of doctors in the public health sector. OBJECTIVE To explore the key human resource (HR) practices affecting doctors in a medical complex in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. METHODS We used an open-ended questionnaire to gather data from 75 doctors in this setting. RESULTS The most important ...

The Human Resource (HR) function is often viewed by those in organizations as a process and cost-center, which results an enhanced risk of outsourcing automation. However, HR also uniquely positioned to engage firms cross-functional transformational change efforts, its work embedded every business within organization. Sustainable the triple bottom line (TBL) present opportunities for build stra...

Information technology (IT) is universally regarded as an essential tool in enhancing the competitiveness of economy a country. There consensus that IT has significant effects on productivity firms. This study focused how modern information impacts effectiveness and efficiency HR practices. Human resource management (HRM) practitioners generally use form human system (HRIS) for purposes decisio...

In any firms, human resource (HR) practices are the direct investments on employees’ human capital through which firms achieve competitive advantage and employees enhance their human capital. Recognizing the structure of HR practices comprised of distinct patterns would maximize the chances to understand the firms’ ways of developing core competencies. This paper analyzes 472 employees’ respons...

with entrance spirituality and god to management and organization field, as 21st century challenge, organization’s managers and leaders especially educational institutions must confront with new phenomena. spiritual leader’s role to incite and encourage human resource with use of spiritual vision and establishment of cultural context based on human values, to foster empowered, high productivity...

Decision models related to investments in human capital, based on the strategic role of Human Resources (HR), are affected by existing perspectives of Intellectual Capital Architecture (ICA) and Utility Theory (UT). With the purpose of supporting decision-making process by increasing its quality via better informing stakeholders, human capital investment decision is a crucial component of the c...

Despite the extensive research in human capital management and performance measurement, intelligent treasoning mechanisms, which integrate human resource (HR) practices into strategic-level shareholder decisions, are still emerging. This paper discusses a novel approach of designing a decision-modeling tool, which assesses the impact of contemporary human resource management (HRM) practices to ...

Critics have argued that the field of human resource management (HRM) lacks a coherent theoretical framework. This article attempts to further the theoretical development of SHRM through discussing six theoretical models (behavioral perspective, cybernetic models, agency/transaction cost theory, resource-based view of the firm, power/resource dependence models, and institutional theory) that ar...