"Training" or "Hiring": A Challenge Facing Human Resource Management (A Case Study: an Industrial Complex Active in Oil, Gas, and Cement Industries)

This research is intended to design strategies of human resource through Miles and Snow model in an active industrial center of oil, gas and cement. The research followed an applied approach using survey method. Research population included 1100 employees and experts of the same center, 285 subjects of whom were selected as sample by a stratified and systematic random selection. For designing human resource strategies, SWOT as well as IFE and EFE matrix were used. Interviews, questionnaires and library data were applied for collecting data. According to research findings, in spite of the corporation's weakness in internal factor appraisal (1.925), there was a good opportunity for it (2.389) in the external market. Therefore, the general suggested strategy for the corporation in relation to human resource is to follow an analytic strategy. In other words, the corporation has to follow a combined strategy of both training and hiring strategy.