Human Resource Management Practices, Employee Disposition and Employee Performance at National Police Service of Kenya

Abstract

Organizations use human resource management practices to change employee attitude in order to enhance employee performance. Disposition is a form of behaviour expressed by individual over time in different conditions. Individual dispositions include personality traits which explain one’s behaviour in different situations and are genetically determined. The aim of this study was to establish effect of employee disposition on the relationship between human resource management practices and employee performance. The research was based on ability, motivation and opportunity theory and social exchange theory Positivism research philosophy and descriptive cross-sectional survey were used. Stratified random sampling was used to study a sample of 384 National Police Service officers. primary data was collected using structured questionnaires. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study findings showed that employee disposition mediates the relationship between human resource management practices and employee performance. The findings further revealed that positive affectivity and negative affectivity individually significantly mediates the relationship between human resource management practices and employee performance. The findings supported the argument that social exchange theory assumed that employer-employee relationship depends on the fulfilment of each party’s obligation, thus rewards must be commensurate to performance. It is concluded that firm must emphasis on employee balance between positive and negative affectivity since both of the has an impact on performance. However, more emphasis should be on positive affectivity.