Investigating the Relationship between Electronic Human Resource Management, Agility and Organizational Effectiveness in Organizations Under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Subject Areas :Reza Bahadorifard 1 * , reza rasouli 2
1 - Learned
2 - Payam Noor university
Keywords: Electronic Human Resource Management (EHRM), Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Agility, Public Organizations, Mixed Approach. ,
Abstract :
Today, information technology has penetrated into all parts of the organization and has affected even the most important assets of the organization, namely human resources and the management of these valuable organizational assets. With the increasing development of hardware and software infrastructure in today's organizations, new approaches to human resource management in combination with information technology and under the title of electronic human resource management (EHRM) has been able to gradually occupy a worthy place in the management processes of the organization. This issue is doubly important among public organizations, which are considered as an intermediary between government and society, and is able to improve the speed and power of organizational responsiveness and performance of the organization through its desired outputs. With this explanation, the purpose of this study is to design of an EHRM model to increase organizational effectiveness through organizational agility in subsidiary organizations of Ministry of Communication & Information Technology Iran. In terms of purpose, this study is an applied-developmental study based on a mixed exploratory approach and qualitative and quantitative analysis approaches seeking to identify the components that form the electronic human resource management system and significance of the relationship between this system and organizational agility and also the significance of the relationship between organizational agility and organizational effectiveness. In this regard, the study gathered the data in the qualitative part based on semi-structured interview tools and the opinions of 9 expert managers in the subsidiary organizations and in the quantitative part based on a sample of human resource managers in subordinate organizations of the mentioned Ministry. Qualitative data analyzed based on theme analysis method and quantitative data analyzed based on structural equation modeling. The results of the qualitative phase of the research showed that electronic human resource management includes seven dimensions or general task, fifteen components and a total of seventy six indicators. The results of the quantitative phase of the research also showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between electronic human resource management with organizational agility and also between organizational agility and organizational effectiveness in the. Based on the results, implementation and development of electronic human resource management system in an appropriate manner in the mentioned organizations is well able to strengthen and develop organizational agility to promote and improve organizational effectiveness. At the end of the study, solutions and suggestions were presented to develop the effectiveness of electronic human resource management system in the mentioned organizations.
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