Design and Testing of an Interpretive Structural Model of Human Resource Information System Agility (Case of: University of Karbala and Najaf)

Subject Areas : Public Administration

Mawed Kadhim Jaber Al Saqer ¹ , Sayyed Mohammad Reza Davoodi ^{2 *} , hayder khudhair jwan Jwan ³ , Mehdi Mohammadkhani ⁴

1 - PhD student in Public Administration - Human Resources, Isfahan(Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor of Management, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management and Economics, Karbala University, Karbala, Iraq.
4 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Education Department, Isfahan(Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2025-03-04 Accepted : 2025-07-28 Published : 2025-09-12

Keywords: Human Resources, Information System, Scalability, Agility,

Abstract :

The aim of this research is to design and test the interpretive structural model of human resource information system agility (case study: University of Karbala and Najaf). The research is exploratory-applied in terms of purpose and survey-descriptive in terms of method. The type of research is mixed. The statistical population in the qualitative section includes books and scientific lectures between 2012 and 2023 in the field of human resource information system agility model. The size of the population in this study was 116 documents, of which 19 studies can be cited. In the quantitative section, the leveling (structural-interpretive) and in the section examining the dimensions of the model, data collection was carried out using researcher-made questionnaires. The statistical population in this section consists of all employees and professors of the University of Najaf and Karbala, who were randomly selected. The data analysis tools were used in the qualitative section, meta-analysis, and in the quantitative section, ISM and PLS. The results of the qualitative research indicate that 5 main dimensions along with their components were extracted from interviews with experts, which include security, interaction and collaboration, extensibility, flexibility, and transparency. In the interpretive structural part, the dimensions are placed at 4 levels, and the security of the human resources information system has been identified as the most influential dimension. In the structural equations part, all the relationships between the dimensions have been confirmed, and the factor loadings of the research have also been confirmed with numbers greater than 0.4.

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