Volume 29, Issue 4, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.876
The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices, Organizational Learning, Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Capabilities on Organizational Performance in Saudi Organizations: A Conceptual Framework
Abstract
Purpose: This study investigates the mediating role of knowledge management for organizational performance (OP), and human resource management (HRM) practices and the moderating role of organizational learning (OL) on the relationship between organizational performance and knowledge management capability (KMC).
Design/Methodology: This sample was drawn from 215 out of 250 human resource managers from service sectors of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The concepts of human resource management (HRM) practices, knowledge management capabilities, organizational culture, organizational performance, and organizational learning have been implemented in the area of research on human resource management. Though the available literature contains a significant result for the relationship between selected variables. Therefore, previous research did not explore the escalating effect of human resource management in interfering organizational learning, intensifying the organizational performance and knowledge management capabilities in a specific organizational culture. This study employs structural model estimates to address the hypotheses. The model was suggested by the previous research and is interlinked with human resource practices.
Findings: The findings of this study explored a significant effect of HRM practices on knowledge management capabilities, organizational culture, organizational performance, and organizational learning in Saudi Arabia during 2019.
Research Limitation/Implication: This study has some limitations such as the survey has been taken via emails. The answers to some questions might be biased. The collected data have been clustered from the non-industrial sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The attributes of the selected companies may be varied from the other areas of the countries.
Originality/Value: this study is based on conceptual framework an employs factor analysis and structural estimate model to make it unique and different from the previous research.
Keywords
Human Resource Management Practices, Knowledge Management Capabilities (KMC), organizational culture (OC), Organizational Performance (OP) and Organizational Learning (OL)