The impact of human resource strategies to gain competitive advantage with the mediating role of organizational agility
Subject Areas : مدیریتGhanbar Amirnejad 1 , Zhale Azhdari 2
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, ُShoshtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoshtar, Iran
2 - M.A., Department of Public Administration, ُShoshtar Branch, Islamic Azad University,Shoshtar, Iran
Keywords: Competitive Advantage, Organizational Agility, Human Resource Strategy, Islamic Azad University of Shoustar,
Abstract :
One of the most important factors that lead to access competitive advantage is organizational agility. Capability and flexibility of human resources plays an important role in the organizational success, in agile organizations that experiences Continuous environmental changes. Human resource strategy with determination, implementation of plans and programs, develop Human Resource competence for responding the future needs of internal and external environment and access the organizational success. Hence, the aim of this research is develop a model to gain competitive advantage as well to create organizational agility capabilities as a tool to cope with continuous and unpredictable changes with a special emphasis on the human resources. In fact, our suggest is to use effective human resource strategies for training and creating agile human resources to access desired organizational results. This study is a Applied-descriptive research and been done in Islamic Azad University of Shoushtar. The study population is consisting of 200 masters and 40 managers that were selected 132 masters and 36 managers as sample with using stratified sampling method. In order to the hypothesis test, we used structural equation modeling. Data from the questionnaires got analyze with SPSS and LISREL statistical software. The results showed human resources strategy has a significant positive impact on the competitive advantages with the mediation of organizational agility.
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