Abstract: Effective human resource business processes are instrumental in helping achieve organizational objectives and enhance productivity. Firm performance is positively impacted by the presence of human resource practices which tend to create a significant contribution on organizational competencies, and this in turn becomes a great boost further enhancing innovativeness. To compete effectively, organizations must constantly improve their performance by designing human resource management processes to diagnose a firm’s strategic human resource needs. The study sought to determine the influence of human resource business processes (selective resourcing, teams and decentralization, extensive training, sharing of information, incentives) on the performance of Kenya’s manufacturing sector. The study adopted a cross sectional survey research design and the target population was the manufacturing sector in Kenya. Data was collected using questionnaires and interviews and analyzed using SPSS and Microsoft Excel. Inferential data analysis was carried out by the use of factor analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The findings indicated that performance was positively influenced by selective resourcing, extensive training, sharing information and incentives. Correlation analysis results revealed that the use of teams and decentralization had a strong and positive association with performance. Based on the results of this study, it could, therefore, be concluded that human resource business processes significantly influenced performance of the manufacturing sector in Kenya. The study recommends that organizations should focus on the use of human resource business processes as its involvement is necessary to ensure that human resources support its mission.
Keywords: Human resource business processes, Resourcing, Teams and decentralization, Training, Sharing information, Incentives.
Title: Influence of Human Resource Business Processes on the Performance of Kenya’s Manufacturing Sector
Author: Esther Waiganjo
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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