Abstract
<p>This study aims to investigate the impact of national culture on strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices on Pharmaceutical industries in Jordan. A quantitative research design using regression analysis was applied in this study and a total of 133 were obtained through a questionnaire distributed to pharmaceutical industries in Jordan. The results showed that national culture dimensions significantly affect SHRM practices and namely, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation, and individualism have an impact on SHRM practices. Except power distance has insignificant effect on SHRM practices. This study implies that HR managers must be aware of national culture of their country, and try to link it with SHRM practices to improve the company’s performance. Moreover, since national culture explained 20% of the variance in SHRM practices, future researches should be directed towards examining other factors affecting SHRM practices.</p>
Highlights
The impact of national culture on organization culture is reflected in several ways
Since the p-value is less than 0.05 the significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected at p ≤ 0.05
The findings revealed that individualism is the strongest predictor for human resource (HR) planning in pharmaceutical industries in Jordan
Summary
The impact of national culture on organization culture is reflected in several ways. Such as, the constraints imposed on organizations by the external environment and the mentality and habits of organization‟s members (Al-Busaidi et al, 2010; Abbasi et al, 2015). Strategic human resource management (SHRM) demonstrates the importance of HR practices for organization performance (Yan, 2010). Human resource (HR) practices considered to be an important element to the organizations to achieve their competitive advantage (Ismail et al, 2010). HR practices must be aligned to the organization strategy in order to achieve the competitive advantage and to enhance the performance in organizations (Wan et al, 2002; Masa‟deh et al, 2015)
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