An Exploratory study of factors influencing human resource productivity aspects in an Islamic context from the point of views of Mashhad municipal employees

Subject Areas : Business Management

Afagh Arjmandi Nejad ¹ , Habibolah Doaei ² , Noor Mohammad Yaghoubi ³ , Seyed Aligholi Rowshan ⁴

1 - Phd student of Human Resource Management
2 - Associate professor of ferdowsi University of Mashhad Department of Management
3 - professor of Sistan & Baluchestan University
4 - University Sistan and Baluchestan

Received: 2016-01-24 Accepted : 2016-11-22 Published : 2017-02-19

Keywords: Human Capital, Content analysis approach, human resource productivity, Islamic context,

Abstract :

In recent years, regarding human resources has been considered as human capital and empowerment and developing them toward achieving human resource productivity. This study aims at an exploratory study of aspects of human resource productivity from employee's attitude of Mashhad municipal. Thereby using qualitative method and content analysis approach with 20 persons of scientific and administrative experts from Mashhad municipal organization, deep interviews was conformed. The results of semi-structured interviews was classified in seven themes namely organizational indifference, human resource development, human resource empowerment, problems of structure and job, managerial remissness, organizational health and Islamic context that each item comprising other related concepts. In fact, the findings are providing a ground for developing this field in organizational studies from employee's point of view and increasing human resource productivity.

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