An empirical study on human resource competencies and its relationship with productivity


Hasan Darvish, Alireza Moogali, Mohammad Moosavi and Belal panahi


This study evaluates the impact of human resource competencies on productivity. The proposed study considers different issues such as different competencies associated with human resources, how we can persuade and strengthen such competencies in organizations and whether human resource competencies impact organizational productivity or not. There are one main hypothesis six minor hypotheses in this study. The proposed study uses descriptive and regression technique to perform the study. The population of this study includes all managers who work for an Iranian petroleum company. This result of this survey shows that that human resource competencies impact organizational productivity. In addition, all dimensions of human resource competencies had significant relationship on organizational productivity.


DOI: j.msl.2012.07.001

Keywords: Credible activist ,Culture & change steward ,Talent manager/organizational designer ,Strategy architect ,Operational executor ,Business ally ,Human resource competencies and productivity

How to cite this paper:

Darvish, H., Moogali, A., Moosavi, M & panahi, B. (2012). An empirical study on human resource competencies and its relationship with productivity.Management Science Letters, 2(7), 2615-2624.


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