Designing a model of social responsibility for human resource management in the electricity industry

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Corresponding author: PhD candidate in HRM, Kharazmi University

2 Associate professor at Kharazmi University.

3 Assistant professor at Kharazmi University.

Abstract

Despite significant advances in human resource management, the social responsibility of human resource management is still neglected. The present study aims to design a model of social responsibility for human resource management in the electricity industry. The research method is qualitative and based on systematic data theorizing. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were used to collect data and coded data analysis was performed. Sampling was done by theoretical method using targeted techniques and snowballs. For this purpose, while conducting open interviews with 15 managers, deputies and heads of human resources departments of the electricity industry, a set of basic themes was collected during the open coding process and categories were extracted from them. Then, in the axial coding stage, the relationship between these categories was determined under the headings of causal conditions, axial phenomena, strategies, ground conditions, intervening conditions and consequences. By analyzing the interviews conducted in the first stage, 172 initial codes to & z

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 40
NO 40, Summer Quarterly
July 2020

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  • Receive Date: 25 April 2021
  • Accept Date: 25 April 2021

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