Understanding High Performance Work System (HPWS) as Related to creativity and Job Engagement in Kurdistan and Canada

Abstract

To understand the high performance Work system, the study determined the impact of high performance system in the organizational setup in Kurdistan and Canada. The research was quantitative in nature where participants were selected randomly from the different companies in Kurdistan and Canada. A total of 318 (Kurdistan) and 293 (Canada) data was collected where analysis was conducted with the SPSS 21. The study found out that there is a significant strong positive relationship between Human resource practices and creativity with the Pearson correlation coefficients r = 0.903 with the p-value <0.01. On the other hand the study found out that there is negative relationship between human resource practices and job engagement. The interaction effects of the high performance work systems human practices and the job engagement, organizational identification, and creativity was significant with the p-value <0.01.

Keywords: High performance, organizational performance, workplace system