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IBIMA Business Review
A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Human Resource Professionals in Pakistan and Malaysia
Mohmad Yazam Sharif 1, Aqeel Ahmad2 and Abdul Rashid Kausar2
1Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Tanjong Malim, Perak Malaysia
2School of Business and Economics, University of Management and Technology
C-II Johar Town, Lahore, Pakistan
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 728528, IBIMA Business Review , 11 pages
DOI: 10.5171/2011.728528
Copyright © 2011 Mohmad
Yazam Sharif, Aqeel Ahmad and Abdul Rashid Kausar. This is an open
access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License unported 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided that original work is properly
cited.
Abstract
The
aim of this empirical paper was to show the comparison between the
effectiveness of Human Resource (HR) professionals and the
organizational factors (namely, leadership, organizational support and
reward system), based on a study on the HR professionals in two private
universities – A university(AU) in Pakistan and B university(BU) in
Malaysia. Both are private universities which have multi disciplinary
business, technology and education related programs. Both institutions
own sophisticated systems (both humans and technology). Consequently,
the human resource management (HRM) practices in AU and BU could be
said to be quite advanced because of this. The approach employed in
this study was to gather data on the human resource professionals from
the perspectives of knowledge workers (the faculty members) in the two
institutions. The data was collected through survey questionnaires
which were distributed to 110 AU and 150 to BU knowledge workers.
However, 73 questionnaires were returned from AU (response rate 70 %)
while only 66 questionnaires were obtained from BU (44 % response
rate). The study shows that there was a correlation between leadership
and HR effectiveness in AU (0.58) and also in BU (0.699). The
correlation between organizational support and HR effectiveness was low
in AU (0.49) but strong in BU (0.673). The correlation between reward
system and HR effectiveness was found to be fair for both AU (0.53) and
BU (0.51). For AU, the weakest predictor was organizational support
(0.49) while for BU, it was the reward system (0.51).
Keywords: HR professional, human resource management, knowledge workers, knowledge management
Keywords: HR professional, human resource management, knowledge workers, knowledge management
