Organizational Human Capital Research Articles

Considerations Regarding the Location and the Role of Organizational Culture in the Romanian Military Environment

Abstract Nowadays organizational human capital is an essential resource for any organization. Moreover, it gives the organization a significant competitive benefit. In that light, the aim of this article is to highlight how the activities carried out in the framework of human resources management influence the organizational culture in the military environment. Furthermore, our intention is to underline how the organizational culture within the military institution gets valences and inflection in relation to the practices of management which are implemented within the component of the human resources of the Romanian Army. The main methods we used in the present research were the personal observation and the study of the evidence.

The need and implications of the human capital management system

In an era where technology and innovation seem to take over every organizational process, differentiation in terms of sustainable economic growth is achieved by implementing a human capital management system. In order to develop a proper model that encompasses a long-term perspective and an infinite organizational mindset, using a survey questionnaire collected data from 118 responses and 3 focus groups were conducted. This paper aims to highlight the results regarding the degree of implementation of the human capital management system and the implications for organizational performance arising from this approach. The results of this study present an evaluation model of human capital in organizations operating in the automotive field.

Управление талантами как направление развития человеческого капитала организации для создания инноваций

Talent management as a direction for the development of the organization's human capital for creating innovations Scientific journal NRU ITMO Series Economics and Environmental Management

The link between HIWPs and well-being at work: the mediating role of trust

PurposeThis paper examines the extent to which investment in human capital (HC) influences employee well-being, focusing on companies in the Basque Country in Northern Spain. Specifically, it analyzes the effects of worker perceptions of high-involvement work system (HIWS) on job satisfaction (JS) and affective commitment (AC), directly and through the mediating role of trust in management. This trust mediating role was also explored by analyzing the isolated effects of high-involvement work processes (power, information, reward and knowledge [PIRK] enhancing practices) on JS and AC.Design/methodology/approachThe structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used on a sample of 2,199 employees from 425 organizations working in different industries. As the study was performed at the organizational level, aggregation was conducted first.FindingsThe findings revealed that trust partially mediated the relationship between HIWS and JS, although AC was directly predicted by the system. In contrast, a trust mediating role was confirmed in the relationship between all PIRK processes, JS and AC.Originality/valueThis study highlights the “hinge” role of trust in linking high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) as an approach to assess HC in organizations and well-being at work. It further conceptualizes HIWS via a PIRK model and operationalizes it through systemic and dimensional approach.

Human Resource Management: The Consequences of Changes in Government Management

Employees as human resources (HR) are a central factor in an organization. Managing people in management is closely related to organizing management itself. Increasing benefits in the aspect of workability within the organization is a major consideration for HRD policies. The HRD policy is closely related to the HRM aspect, namely investing in people and developing the organization's human capital. To get employees who are efficient in the organization, then placing the humanitarian aspect as the basis for employee development. Through reforms at the organizational level both for individual employees in particular and the organization in general, a human power based perspective is offered. There is a new trend of organizations that are more consumer-oriented, and involve them in strategic planning processes that do not interest most of them. This can apply to public sector organizations.

A Novel Fuzzy Scoring Approach of Behavioural Interviews in Personnel Selection

The need for a behavioural interview scoring strategy is a critical element in order to ensure an optimal organizational human capital. Behavioural interview based on storytelling approach is a technique through which career seekers are required to provide clear details of how they have handled such workloads in the past. The whole literature assumes the existence of strong correlations between the score received on the selection interview and subsequent job performance, so in this paper we intend to highlight the relationship between these two assessments as well as the modelling using fuzzy logic of a CAR alternative system for scoring the selection interview. The results demonstrated that there is a very significant association between the classic interview score and work performance (r=0.894 to p<0.01). Furthermore, there is also a significant correlation coefficient of r=0.925 at a p<0.01, between the fuzzy CAR score and job performance, thus the validity and the optimization of the procedure are fully proven.

The Role of Organizational Slack and Human Capital in Managing Performance Shocks: How US Nursing Homes Buffered Hurricane Katrina

Public service organizations employ buffers to ward off disruptive performance shocks such as natural disasters, budget cuts, and uncertain events. Existing applications on buffering focus on how slack human resources are reallocated to high-risk areas during times of uncertainty to dampen the impact these events have on core organizational processes. Besides slack, the quality of human capital is also important. Skilled personnel have the technical acumen and expertise to help managers navigate through treacherous times and still deliver public services. Yet, existing work does not test the impact of these two buffers simultaneously. Using a panel dataset of nursing homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, I explore how personnel slack and human capital helped absorb the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The findings suggest that human capital buffers the impact of Hurricane Katrina on health deficiencies and physical dependency. In contrast, slack capacity amplifies the impact of Katrina on health deficiencies.

Human capital and export performance in the Spanish manufacturing firms

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of firms’ general and specific human capital on the export propensity and intensity.Design/methodology/approachThe resource-based view of the firm provides the theoretical background to examine export performance. Empirical analysis is carried out using a national representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms and employing Logit and Tobit models. Export performance is evaluated in a dual way, as export propensity and export intensity. In relation to human capital a distinction is made between general and specific human capital.FindingsThe results shown that differences exist in the effect of general and specific human capital. While the firms’ general human capital (education of the firm’s employees) affects both export propensity and intensity, only some dimensions of specific human capital (employees’ experience at the workplace) affects export propensity and intensity but no the employees’ training. Moreover, the firms’ general human capital generates greater changes than the effect of specific human capital on the export behavior.Originality/valueThis paper extends a line of research underexplored in the literature by analyzing the effect of organizational human capital on the firm’s export performance; moreover, it is the first study for Spanish manufacturing firms; the distinction between general and specific human capital enhances our comprehension of the human capital as a determinant of export performance. In relation to the specific human capital, besides training, we add a new variable related to experience at the workplace.

Brain drain in Venezuela: the scope of the human capital crisis

ABSTRACTBrain drain, the exodus of highly skilled professionals, has a strong connection with Human Resource Development (HRD), as these experts are human capital for organizations, communities, and nations. In today’s global economy, HRD practitioners and scholars need to keep abreast of what circumstances trigger the migration of talented workers around the world and the implications for HRD. This article describes the brain drain in Venezuela. The magnitude of the talent crisis is the result of a complex combination of poor policy implementation, mismanagement, corruption, and socio-economic and political conflict. This article exposes the current realities and the repercussions the exodus of talent has had on Venezuela and the decline of a country that was once among the world’s richest, but is now an impoverished nation.

An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Human Capital and Organizational Performance in Hospitality Sector in Pakistan

Human capital is professed as a critical factor and a special resource that can elevate the firm’s performance, generally, in most of the organizations, and specifically, in labor-intensive organizations. It is considered a special resource in the hotel industry where employees have direct interaction with customers. Although a lot of research has been done, however, the question of how much and what type of human capital is required by the organization to fight in the recent rivalry is still unanswered. This study is an effort to answer the aforesaid question about human capital in the hospitality sector in Pakistan (involving five stars, four-star, and three-star hotels separately). A theoretical framework and a research conceptual model is developed on the bases of in-depth literature. A cross-sectional field survey was conducted through an adopted and valid research instrument. Questionnaires were administered to 300 respondents selected by stratified random sampling, 275 were received and 250 were perfect for further use in SPSS version 22. Statistical analysis shows the results which clearly identify the strong and significant relationship between human capital and organizational performance. Moreover, microanalysis of components of human capital depicts that innovation and creation have the most significant impact among all of the three components, on organizational performance in all types of hotels in Pakistan. Theoretically, the current study added knowledge to the literature about the constructs of human capital, organizational performance, and organization success. Practically, in the hotel industry, it contributes to strategic decision making such as employees’ training, human capital investment, regulatory decisions, developing mechanisms in order to develop human capital as a unique and valuable resource that leads to the competitive advantage of the organizations. The current study is limited to five stars, four-star and three-star hotels in Lahore, Pakistan. It an important and initial step towards establishing a measurable and empirical value of human capital for organizations in the hospitality sector. However, It opens new vistas for researchers to further investigate the phenomenon.

Executives Perception on the Association between Human Capital Indicator and Organizational Performance: A Special Reference to Pharmaceutical Sector in Hyderabad

Every organization can develop their human competencies and capabilities based on collective effort of their human capital management from which high amount performance can be achieved. Human capital management put their practices to impart certain competencies based on organizational requirement. It is a collective and incorporated approach that employees are the assets of the organization and whose present value can be measure and whose future value can be build through investment in human capital. The research study has taken to examine the association between human capital indicator i.e. Knowledge accessibility and organizational performance from the perspective of executives employed in Pharmaceutical sector in Hyderabad. The result indicated that most of the executives find knowledge accessibility is a major significant factor in organization Human Capital. Also the study found an optimistic connection between two variables i.e. knowledge accessibility and organizational performance from the aspect of executives employed in Pharmaceutical companies in Hyderabad. The study provided limitations and direction for future research.

Additive Effects of Performance- and Commitment-Oriented Human Resource Management Systems on Organizational Outcomes

Exploring the duality and balance research on human resource management (HRM), this study established two different HRM systems or bundles based on distinct guiding principles—the performance-oriented HRM system and the commitment-oriented HRM system. This study investigated whether the performance- and commitment-oriented HRM systems or bundles with different philosophical backgrounds have their own independent and additive effects on organizational outcomes. The relationships between these HRM systems and organizational outcomes were examined with 1735 firm-period samples in the longitudinal setting. The empirical results show that the commitment-oriented HRM systems have independent and additive effects on organizational commitment and human capital. However, the performance-oriented HRM systems have no independent and additive effect on organizational outcomes. Our study also indicates that increasing the performance-oriented HRM practices can be redundant and unnecessary unless firms have sufficiently high levels of the commitment-oriented HRM practices. Given that the definition and measures of commitment-oriented HRM bundles nearly match the characteristics of sustainable HRM, we thus argue that the commitment-oriented HRM systems have more potential to improve not only organizational outcomes and performance, but also human and social sustainability, than the performance-oriented HRM systems.

Big Data-driven Algorithmic Decision-Making in Selecting and Managing Employees: Advanced Predictive Analytics, Workforce Metrics, and Digital Innovations for Enhancing Organizational Human Capital Social Sciences, Sociology, Management and complex organi

Big Data-driven Algorithmic Decision-Making in Selecting and Managing Employees: Advanced Predictive Analytics, Workforce Metrics, and Digital Innovations for Enhancing Organizational Human Capital Social Sciences, Sociology, Management and complex organi

Big Data-driven Algorithmic Decision-Making in Selecting and Managing Employees: Advanced Predictive Analytics, Workforce Metrics, and Digital Innovations for Enhancing Organizational Human Capital Social Sciences, Sociology, Management and complex organi

Big Data-driven Algorithmic Decision-Making in Selecting and Managing Employees: Advanced Predictive Analytics, Workforce Metrics, and Digital Innovations for Enhancing Organizational Human Capital Social Sciences, Sociology, Management and complex organi

The Strategic Organizational Behavior and Human Capital Resources Relationship: A Multi-method Study

While the importance of human capital resources for competitive advantage is well established, the antecedents of human capital resources remain understudied. Motivated by the recognition that the ...

Modelo de capacitación para trabajadores de empresas de servicios en el contexto actual

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar teórica y prácticamente la razón por la cual la capacitación representa en la actualidad una inversión de corto y mediano plazo que enriquece el capital humano en las organizaciones de la sociedad del conocimiento del siglo XXI. Se propone una metodología de impacto para empresas de servicios como las del Sector Salud, cuyas condiciones de trabajo (al igual que otros servicios) no siempre favorecen o garantizan una capacitación exitosa.&#x0D; El capacitador debe enfrentar las actitudes negativas de las personas, quienes se presentan desmotivadas, con la tendencia de culpar al nivel directivo de las situaciones adversas, con una falta de disposición a la capacitación, con rechazo por tener que realizar este proceso a contra turno o utilizando un 50% de su tiempo libre. Son circunstancias que impiden, en la mayoría de los casos, llegar al cumplimiento de los objetivos programados.&#x0D; En nuestro país, existe la obligatoriedad legal, dada por la Constitución Política y por la Ley Federal del Trabajo, de aplicar Programas de Capacitación. Esto con el fin de proteger al trabajador de un despido por inadecuado desempeño, causado por la falta de capacitación y actualización en su trabajo. No siempre se tiene plena consciencia de ello.

Breach or bridge your career? Understanding the relationship between career plateau and internal employability

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of career plateau (hierarchical and job-content plateau) on internal employability, and to investigate psychological contract breach as a moderator on the relationship between career plateau (hierarchical and job-content plateau) and internal employability.Design/methodology/approachData were collected by distributing paper-based questionnaires to 521 workers in private banking sectors in Taiwan. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the results of the relationships.FindingsThe results supported the idea that career plateau (hierarchical and job-content plateaus) could be a significant antecedent of internal employability. Psychological contract breach significantly moderated the negative relationship between career plateau (hierarchical and job-content plateau) and internal employability. Specifically, the negative relationship between career plateau and internal employability will be stronger for employees who perceive a higher level of psychological contract breach.Practical implicationsThese findings can help human resource practitioners gain a better understanding of the value of applicable approaches as an influence on a plateaued employee’s perception of internal employability, and to facilitate a positive employer–employee relationship, which could foster both a successful career for an individual and a prosperous performance for the organization that employs them.Originality/valueCareer plateau have been aroused variety issues in HR practice, but employability and psychological contract breach have barely been discussed with career plateau. This study empirically establishes the correlation between career plateau and internal employability as well as shown that psychological contract breach would decrease the plateaued individual’s willingness to stay in the current organization. Thus, the career plateau may provide organizations with a helpful perspective on one’s career development. Building substantial relationships between employees and employers lead to better human capital for organizations as it deals with rapidly changes in the real world.

The Convergence of Organizational Culture, Structure and Human Capital Performance: A Conceptual Analysis

There is no doubt that talented employees are the backbone of every organizational success. An organization can have an advantage over its competitors by using better technology, lower costs, more innovative products, etc. However, these advantages do not just happen by themselves; it takes talents within the organization to create, implement and sustain competitive advantages. Thus, the long-term success of any organization ultimately depends on maximizing the effectiveness of employees in accomplishing organizational goals. The key to the desired results is creating a favourable context within which employees must operate. Hence, organizational structure and culture are key to employees’ effectiveness. Therefore, using literature review method, this conceptual paper examined the roles of organizational culture and organizational structure in maximizing human capital performance. Further, this article recommends research propositions based on a framework for an empirical examination of the relationships and impact of organizational culture and structure on human capital performance and sustainable competitive advantage.

Human Capital Differentiation: Toward Human Resource Systems Differentiation

The existence of different human capital in organisations and the emphasis on its effective management has brought a new approach in the field of human resource management. The best configuration approach seeks to create compatibility between human resource approaches and the characteristics of human capital in the organisation. This study aims to identify human capital uniqueness and strategic value as a two dimensions of human resource architecture and classify this different workforce in the organisation. The 364 jobs have been identified and initially grouped by International Standard Classification of Occupations. The 33 experts of Isfahan Municipality were selected and the data related to job groups through a questionnaire were collected. The results show these jobs can be arranged within three main categories of key, traditional, and contractual employees. This means there is some variety of workforce in organisations that requires planning and designing different human resource systems in the future.

Human capital differentiation: toward human resource systems differentiation

The existence of different human capital in organisations and the emphasis on its effective management has brought a new approach in the field of human resource management. The best configuration approach seeks to create compatibility between human resource approaches and the characteristics of human capital in the organisation. This study aims to identify human capital uniqueness and strategic value as a two dimensions of human resource architecture and classify this different workforce in the organisation. The 364 jobs have been identified and initially grouped by International Standard Classification of Occupations. The 33 experts of Isfahan Municipality were selected and the data related to job groups through a questionnaire were collected. The results show these jobs can be arranged within three main categories of key, traditional, and contractual employees. This means there is some variety of workforce in organisations that requires planning and designing different human resource systems in the future.