Abstract
The “speed” of modern business—as well as changes in the environment—have led administrative organizations on the path of additional challenges. These organizations tirelessly strive for the realization of advanced systems, adapting their business to modern ideas and trends and gaining market advantage. In this way, organizations become modern and contemporary in their understandings of internal functioning. The study presented by the authors in the chapter aimed to determine the impact of human resource management (HRM) functions on the balanced scorecard in Jordanian public joint-stock companies. In the research, adequate statistical and descriptive methods were used. The results of the study recommend the creation of an organizational culture that promotes the optimal and effective use of HRM functions in the organizational environment.
TopIntroduction
Business organizations are permanently trying to achieve success, and maintain their success and survival - this makes them constantly seek to develop, improve and amend their strategies. In that manner, they develop new products, but also use innovative tools and means. HRM functions are characterized by liaison with the organization's management, as it oversees the organization's relationships with all employees in different departments(Wirtzet al, 2008). The administrations of modern organizations seek some benefit from the knowledge and sciences that researchers constantly create and develop (Al-Khashali, 2009). These efforts lead to new opportunities, continuous progress, and development. The departments concerned with human resources planning have made continuous efforts, to secure the capabilities, and draw up plans responsive to the needs of improving the balanced scorecard to achieve a competitive advantage in quality, responsiveness, cost, customer satisfaction, and critical process performance measures (Al Safou, 2009). The success of organizations in performing their tasks and functions effectively in an integrated manner depends to a large extent on the effective use of these resources (HRM) - because it is an important factor on which the future strategy of the organization depends, seeking to achieve the desired balanced scorecard (Kefi & Kalika, 2009). The organization should provide and meet the needs of other (organizational) departments - which contribute to the creation of appropriate, trained, qualified and well-motivated human resources. This is achieved through training and education policy programs, which are determined by the human resources department. Based on the development and improvement of capabilities within the organization, each organizational unit can achieve strategic goals, both individual and general. In this way, the results can be improved and business can be balanced (Al-Atwi, 2010).
The concept of institutional performance is linked to a system (7-S, s) related to the pillars of the Balanced Scorecard, which includes the existence of Shared-Values, Strategy, Structure, and Management Style commensurate with the company's vision, business systems, and human cadres (staff) -continuous development of the skills needed to perform the company's tasks (Bankeret al, 2009). Because of the importance of the HRM functions of the balanced scorecard, the functions of human resources management have become of special importance at the practical level, intending to correct and monitor the processes of change and development within the various organizations. This importance is visible through the efforts made by Jordanian companies to pay attention to human resources.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Balanced Scorecard: Represents the way that organizations align their economic and human resources with environmental business factors in a manner of sustainable business processes.
Public Joint-Stock Company: A type of company which capital is divided into a certain number of shares - in equal amounts. Belongs to the group of legal entities that are responsible for the obligations exclusively with their assets.
Management Innovation: A word Innovation is derived from the Latin word innovare , meaning something new. Refers to all types and forms of innovation, i.e., innovation processes and techniques which contribute to the successful operation of the organization by improving business processes.
Variance Inflation Factor (VIF): Is represented as a measure of the amount of multicollinearity in a set of multiple regression variants, the ratio of total model variance to model variance that includes only one independent variable.
Financial Performance: EVERY company should have a system for managing economic performance and goals – developed and formalized set of measures for adoption, and control of achieved goals. Every business can be viewed as economic a unit that employs resources to ensure a return on investment.
Stepwise Multiple Regression: Represents an iterative construction of a regression model in terms of—step by step—a method that examines the choice of independent variables to the final model. This includes adding or removing potential variables sequentially and testing statistical significance after each iteration.