Designing Measurement Instruments and Appraising Human Resources Strategic Vertical Alignment

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 M.S Graduate of Strategic Human Resource Manegement, management and accounting faculty, College of Farabi, University of Tehran

2 PHD: Human Resource Management College of Farabi, University of Tehran Assistant professor of management and accounting faculty

3 PHD: Public Administration ( Human Resource Management) College of Farabi, University of Tehran

Abstract

Researchers believe that human resource systems have a high strategic capacity for increaseing organization performance. To take advantage of this power, organizations must design and implement human resource systems so that they focus on staff competencies as well as alignment with the organization's grand strategies and internal configuration in human resource management functions. To do so, organizations’ current level of strategic alignment of human resource systems should be primarily measured. Then, organizations should try to modify and improve it. The purpose of this research is to design a set of tools for organizations to measure the degree of alignment of their human resource systems with organizational strategies and then try to improve them. This research follows a quantitative case study conducted in Saipa. The data gathering methods include structured interviews and questionnaires to be used at different stages. A complete and step-by-step approach, the methods of designing the tools, and evaluation of the strategic alignment of human resources are explained in the research. The researchers found out that, based on the designed tools, Saipa's strategic human resource alignment level was moderate (58.82). Therefore, in order to strengthen the alignment of the organization's performance strategy, suggestions are proposed from the perspective of human resources management.

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 28
serial no.28
September 2017
Pages 143-166

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  • Receive Date: 02 October 2016
  • Revise Date: 01 May 2017
  • Accept Date: 16 July 2017

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