Employees Perspective of Human Resources Practices with Relation to Performance of Public Sector Organizations in Afghanistan

Abstract

This research aimed to examine perceived relationship between human resources practices and organization performance in public sector of Afghanistan. To investigate this relationship, quantitative methodology was employed. Reviews on literature guide this study to investigate that recruitment and selection, training and development, employees' relations and involvement, performance appraisal, and contingent pay and reward schemes as independent variables and organization performance as a dependent variable of the current study. All the variables of the study were operationalized with five points Likert scale questionnaire. It is worth to mention that instrument used in the current study was adopted from previous studies. Moreover, data was collected from 135 respondents selected from various ministries of Afghanistan. The results were analyzed to determine the relationship between variables by using OLS regression through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). The research findings indicated that there is insignificant relationship of recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, contingent pay and reward schemes with relation to organization performance; however; only one independent variable has significant relationship with organization performance. Furthermore, this study contributes empirically to the Human Resources literature with relationship to organization performance in the context of Afghanistan.