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Process & Radical HR Innovations & Organizational Effectiveness: An Empirical Study


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1 Assistant Professor, School of HR, XIMB, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India
2 Professor, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India
3 Professor, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India
     

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Process and Radical HR innovations though have become the center stage in literature, due attention and focus are not being extended to their possible impacts on organizational effectiveness. The effective implementation of HR practices depends largely on their significant and visible support including their belief about the importance of HR systems and practices in attaining organizational effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of the concept on organizational effectiveness in thirty organizations. Data from 2300 samples were collected from organizations in steel, power, cement, IT, auto and refractories in India, Singapore, Thailand and UK and were analyzed using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), TOPSIS and Hierarchical Regression analysis. The findings suggest that Process and Radical HR Innovations influenced Organizational effectiveness significantly.
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Authors

Arup Roy Chowdhury
Assistant Professor, School of HR, XIMB, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India
B K Mangaraj
Professor, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India
M G Jomon
Professor, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India

Abstract


Process and Radical HR innovations though have become the center stage in literature, due attention and focus are not being extended to their possible impacts on organizational effectiveness. The effective implementation of HR practices depends largely on their significant and visible support including their belief about the importance of HR systems and practices in attaining organizational effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of the concept on organizational effectiveness in thirty organizations. Data from 2300 samples were collected from organizations in steel, power, cement, IT, auto and refractories in India, Singapore, Thailand and UK and were analyzed using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), TOPSIS and Hierarchical Regression analysis. The findings suggest that Process and Radical HR Innovations influenced Organizational effectiveness significantly.

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