Perception of Strategic Human Resource Management among Employees of Jordanian Private Companies

Abstract

This paper attempted to investigate the perception of employees at Jordanian private companies with regards to their companies' strategic human resource architecture (SHRA), strategic direction (SD) and impediments to the implementation strategic human resource (SHR). The data for this study was collected from the respondents by using survey questionnaires. In this research two kinds of statistical analyses were carried out on the data obtained from the respondents. First, descriptive analysis was used to analyze the background of the respondents and the companies; second, regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between human resource architecture, strategic direction, and obstacles, total 200 questionnaires for the study were distributed to the respondents by e-mail and also by hand. A total of 103 were received, the respondents are employees of Jordanian private companies. The results of the study suggest that the levels of perception among the employees on the three variables are quite high. In addition, there is exist relationship between strategic human resource architecture, strategic direction, and obstacles.