Human Resource Management Practices as an Antecedent of Employee Performance

Dr Shaheen Ahmed

doi:10.32861/bmer.610.152.160

Abstract

The practitioners and academicians in the business arena are highly concern about the enhancement of employee performance in this competitive age for achievement of business goals. Considering the issue, this study aimed to measure the influence of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on the performance of employees. The data of this study have been collected from 392 on-the-job operational level employees using survey method who are working at different garment factories in Bangladesh. The collected data are analyzed through structural equation modeling to partial least square method. The study empirically proves that employee training and development, promotion opportunity, and job security has significant influence on the employees’ performance. Theoretically, this study proves that training and development, job security and promotion opportunity together influence on the performance of employees in the developing economy. The practitioners and policy makers of the organizations are expected to make necessary adjustments in their existing HRM practices based on the findings of this study in the context of Bangladesh for enhancing the employees’ performance level so that their whole-hearted efforts can be gained for the achievement of business goals.

Highlights

Business organizations in the recent time are operating their activities in highly competitive environment where employee performance, quantity of work, is considered as a vital issue for its existence
The data of this study have been collected from 392 on-the-job operational level employees using survey method who are working at different garment factories in Bangladesh
The practitioners and policy makers of the organizations are expected to make necessary adjustments in their existing Human Resource Management (HRM) practices based on the findings of this study in the context of Bangladesh for enhancing the employees’ performance level so that their whole-hearted efforts can be gained for the achievement of business goals

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Introduction

Business organizations in the recent time are operating their activities in highly competitive environment where employee performance, quantity of work, is considered as a vital issue for its existence. The organization may have sufficient resources but in absence of appropriate HRM practices those resources cannot be utilized to ensure the desired level of performance from employees to come across to the expected targets such as business’s expansion and making profit. This notion makes practitioners conscious about the perfect implementation of human resource management practices at the workplace so that employees’ level of performance can be improved. Recently the decision makers of the organizations sincerely considering the issues like training and development, job security, and position advancement opportunity as a means of attaining employees devotion to work (Ahmed et al, 2016). Uninterrupted job continuation and opportunity of positional progress of employees creates positive sense to work

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