The Relationship between Entrepreneurial Agility and Human Resource Practices in Active Manufacturing Companies in Beshel Industrial Town with Respect to Organization Size

Subject Areas : Business Management

Aboalhasan Hosseini ¹ , Mohsen Alizadeh Sani ² , Hamidreza Abedi ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of EMBA, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of EMBA,University of Mazandaran,Mazandaran, Iran
3 - Graduate Student, Department of EMBA, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran, Iran

Received: 2017-08-16 Accepted : 2019-06-02 Published : 2019-07-23

Keywords: Human Resource Practices, Entrepreneurial Agility, Organization Size,

Abstract :

High-speed responsiveness and flexibility are currently two important survival requirements for modern organizations directed by humans whose appropriate functioning can lead the organizations to the achievement of their major goals. This applied and descriptive correlational study surveys the relationship between entrepreneurial agility and human resources practices, with respect to the moderating role of organization size, in active manufacturing companies in industrial town of Beshel. The research data were collected via two questionnaires that were administered to employees working in 60 companies recruited based on Cochran formula from the research population that was 71 active manufacturing companies of industrial town of Beshel. Entrepreneurial agility was measured via the questionnaire designed by Kharabe , and human resources practices were quantified employing the questionnaires developed by Vlachos (2009), Herdman (2008) and Kooij (2010) in combination. The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated through Cronbach's alpha and were found to be 0.89 for the Entrepreneurial Agility Questionnaire and 0.92 for the Human Resources Practices. The obtained research data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling and PLS. According to the values obtained for the path coefficients and t-statistics, the findings showed that entrepreneurial agility was positively and significantly associated with human resource practices.

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