Collaborative HR Social Capital and Organisational Performance – Evidence From Indian IT Sector

Abstract

The research work yielded 126 respondents from Indian software export companies located in and around Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The thrust of the research work is to examine the impact of Indian Software organisations’ operational HR practices and procedures. The research thrust is also to explore linkage between organisational performance and enhanced social capital (SC). Three sets of questionnaires were designed on collaborative HR practices, SC and organisational performance in the five point Likert scale and were administered on the basis of field survey. The collected data were then analysed with simple regression analysis. It was found that collaborative HR configuration creates an interactive and collective culture within the organisation, nourishes organisational rationality and positively and significantly drives organisational level SC, which in turn is very well co-related with organisation bottom line