Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management on Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction: A Study on Human Resource Managers

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Strategic human resource management is an approach that adapts human resource to business strategies and integrates management of human resource of an organization into strategic management process. The relationship of strategic human resource management with other organizational variables has gained much attention in recently. The purpose of the present study was to find out whether strategic human resource management influences job satisfaction and organizational commitment of human resource managers. The research model was developed according to the job satisfaction theories (job characteristic and two-factor theory) and empirical research related to the issue. The research hypotheses were tested on sample composed of 241 human resource managers working in 28 larger firms running in various sector, Istanbul. As a result of study, it was found that independent variables which consisted of strategic human resource management, recruitment-development, and participation- communication with employees affected the dependent variables (job satisfaction and organizational commitment). However, impact of participation-communication with employees variable on job satisfaction was comparatively higher than the other variables.

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Strategic human resource management , human resource managers , job satisfaction , organizational commitment

Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences