Impact of Human Resources Management practices on Achieving competitive Advantage for Industrial companies (An Empirical study at Al Hassan Industrial Estate-Jordan)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of Human Resources Management practices on achieving competitive Advantage for industrial companies at al Hassan industrial Estate. The variables of this study consisted of independent Variable (Human resources management practices), and the dependent variable (achieving competitive advantage).

The study employed the statistical analytical descriptive approach based on the literature review and field work to discuss hypothesis.

The population of this study consisted of (40) industrial company located in Al Hassan industrial estate – Irbid – Jordan. The study adopted purposive sample which is included all directors of Human resources department in the Industrial companies that the sample included. The sample totaled (40) Human resources directors. The study used questionnaire as a tool to collect data and to measure study samples individuals attitudes towards the impact of Human resources practices on achieving competitive advantage and to clarity the importance of its practices for companies’ success.

The findings indicated that there is positive correlation with statistical significant at significant level (0.05> ? ) among sample individual attitudes toward all dimensions of independent variable and dependent variable.

The findings also indicated that there is high impact and prediction capacity for each of the independent variable dimensions on dependent variable.

Major findings of this study indicated that there is a strong effect of selecting and placement on achieving competitive advantage. The other dimensions of human resources management practices as job analyses and design, recruitment, training and development and employees performance appraisal shows that there is no significant impact on achieving competitive advantage.

The study recommends that business organizations have to apply and pay more attention to all human resources management functions in parallel

Keywords: HRM, Job analysis and design, Recruitment selection and placement, Training and development, performance Appraisal, Competitive advantage.