Human Resource Management and Organizational Effectiveness in Changing Times
Keywords:
Equity, Perception of Justice, Humane bureaucracy, Era of accountability for human resource management, Productivity, Efficiency, Competitive economic environment.Abstract
Human resource management provides the creative ingredients for organizational effectiveness because people design and produce the goods and services and allocate financial resources. People in organizations set the overall strategies and objectives for organizations without which they cannot achieve their objectives. The importance of human resource management and people in organizations is a fundamental result of the Hawthorne studies in terms of motivation and respect for labour in the workplace. This can be emphasized because effectiveness is often inter-woven with job satisfaction which is a positive emotional reaction to a person’s job experiences. This also develops into organizational commitment that reflects a strong belief in an organization’s goals and values, a willingness to exert considerable effort on behalf of the organization. The era of accountability for human resource management has arisen from concerns about effectiveness and productivity in organizations. This is imperative because the human being plays a major role in ensuring that an organization will survive and prosper through measures of efficiency and effectiveness. These measures of efficiency and effectiveness revolves around equity and perceptions of justice in the tradition of humane bureaucracy to boost motivation and organizational effectiveness. The qualitative exploratory research design was adopted for this study and the result showed significant positive relationship between human resource management and organizational effectiveness. The study was never exhaustive, further study should therefore, examine the relationship between human resource management and profitability in Nigeria organizations. This study recommends that human beings in any organization should be treated with equity and respect for optimal performance and organizational effectiveness.
JEL: M10, M12.
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