Meta-analysis of factors affecting soft skills Human resources in the organization

Subject Areas : Education

habibeh najafi ¹ , Mehran Rahmanabadi ² , seyed Abbas seyed Alavi ³ , zarrintaj dashtban ⁴ , fardin teimorzadeh ⁵

1 - Power Research Institute
2 - Ardabil Regional Water Company
3 - Employee of Niro Research Institute
4 - Education teacher of District 1 of Tabriz
5 - university of khalkhal eslamic azad

Received: 2022-09-05 Accepted : 2023-04-09 Published : 2024-03-20

Keywords: meta-analysis, Human Resources, Organization, Soft Skills,

Abstract :

The increasing complexity of organizations and the increase in global competition have turned the attention of managers and researchers to soft skills. This attention to the issue of soft skills led to a lot of research on the factors affecting soft skills in the organization. The present research was conducted with a quantitative approach and Meta-analysis method. The statistical population of the research includes all valid scientific articles published in the years 2010 to 2019 on the subject of soft skills. Finally, 36 researches were selected and analyzed with CAM software. The results of the research showed that a total of 34 variables have been investigated with soft skills in different researches. Among these variables, the three variables of lifelong learning, long-term perspective, and critical thinking have had the greatest impact on soft skills. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the effect size between lifelong learning and soft skills is high with 0.55 and the combined effect size of long-term perspective and soft skills is in the middle with 0.49. The relationship between critical thinking and soft skills in the reviewed researches is equal to 0.38 and in the average level.

Lifelong learning, long-term perspective and critical thinking have a great impact on soft skills compared to other variables, which is predicted in the theories of the intra-organizational level.