Human resource management, commitment and performance links in Iran and Turkey
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
ISSN: 1741-0401
Article publication date: 19 November 2018
Issue publication date: 19 November 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influences of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational commitment (OC), individual job performance (IJP) and organizational performance (OP) and the effects of OC on IJP and OP at travel agencies in Iran and Turkey. Given research site observation, improving HRM practices fostering OC, IJP and OP was essential to high service quality in hospitality industry.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected through a survey based on interview and e-mail from 440 employees working at travel agencies in both countries. Analysis methodology included demographic statistics, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis.
Findings
Only reward (RE), teamwork (TW), job description (JD), delegation (DL) and career management (CM) influenced affective commitment (AC); JD and CM affected continuance commitment (CC); and recruitment and selection (RS), RE, salary and wage (SW), TW, DL, job security (JS) and CM influenced normative commitment (NC) significantly and positively. Likewise, only RS, TR, SW, TW, DL and CM affected IJP; and TR, JS and CM affected OP significantly and positively. Finally, AC, CC and NC influenced IJP and only AC and CC impacted OP significantly and positively.
Research limitations/implications
Sample and number of respondents were limited. Generalization of findings was not possible. E-mail respondents raised the problem of who filled the form. Scales did not include personality traits, socio-cultural features and economic conditions which should be explored. However, the research provided recommendations to travel agencies in both countries.
Originality/value
This study filled the gap in hospitality industry in Iran and Turkey where research works into wide-ranging HRM practices–OC–IJP–OP links were few and far between.
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Citation
Torlak, N.G., Kuzey, C. and Ragom, M. (2018), "Human resource management, commitment and performance links in Iran and Turkey", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 67 No. 9, pp. 1994-2017. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-11-2017-0298
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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