Title: On the relation between organisational learning, strategic human resource management and human capital: testing a mediational model

Authors: Mustafa Changar; Harun Sesen

Addresses: Faculty of Business and Economics, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Mersin 10, Turkey ' Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Mersin 10, Turkey

Abstract: The goal of this study is to discuss how organisational learning can be enhanced in corporations, which is a vital source of competitive advantage in our contemporary, rapidly evolving business environment. For this purpose, we constructed a model of strategic human resource management, human capital, and organisational learning through the lens of the resource-based view theory. We analysed data from a sample of 296 employees from two private banks and a real estate company in Northern Cyprus. AMOS software was used to test the research hypotheses by running a structural equation model. The results displayed that strategic human resource management practices had a positive and significant effect on employees' organisational learning. In addition, such practices also improved human capital, which in turn enhanced organisational learning, showing a mediational effect. Our model is an attempt at improving organisational learning theory. We established the mediating effect of human capital on the association between strategic human resource management and organisational learning. The model is distinguished by focusing on the strategic implementation of HRM practices and by conducting research on human-centred sectors in a developing country's economy through the resource-based view.

Keywords: strategic human resource management; SHRM; organisational learning; human capital; resource-based view.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2025.153215

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2025 Vol.24 No.3/4, pp.237 - 250

Received: 16 Nov 2024
Accepted: 15 Oct 2025
Published online: 29 Apr 2026 *

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