Causal Relationships among Sustainable Human Resource Management Antecedents via Structural-Interpretive Modeling

Subject Areas : Human resources management)

sayad nadimidarab ¹ , mohammadreza mardani ² , gholamreza memarzadeh tehran ³ , Naser Hamidi ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Public Administration, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Public Management, Imam Hossein University, Tehran,
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

Received: 2020-03-06 Accepted : 2020-07-23 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: Structural-Interpretive Modeling, causal relationships, Sustainable Human Resource Management,

Abstract :

The purpose of the current applied descriptive enquiry was to examine the causal relationships among sustainable human resource management (HRM) antecedents using structural-interpretive modeling. The research population consisted of staff at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education as well as the experts in the field. Two questionnaires were employed to glean the research data. The first researcher-made questionnaire was initially distributed among the research population to identify and validate the theoretical framework after its validity and reliability were statistically verified. The second questionnaire was employed for the sake of structural-interpretive modeling. The collected research data were analyzed through confirmatory factor analysis and structural-interpretive modeling the results of which revealed ten factors as antecedents of sustainable HRM in the target population. Likewise, the results of structural-interpretive modeling bore on organizational support and supervision as the basis of sustainable HRM practices that may directly and indirectly affect other antecedents.

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