Title: Studying the impact of challenges training system on effectiveness of human resources management practices (case study: Iran's petrochemical industry)

Authors: Hadi Teimouri; Mansour Moazami; Kouroush Jenab

Addresses: Management Department, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ' Management Department, Tehran Oil Industry University, Tehran, Iran ' Society of Reliability Engineering-Ottawa Chapter, 812-761 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 2R2, Canada

Abstract: The main objective of the present survey is to study the impact of challenges in the training system and the effectiveness of human resources management practices in Iran's petrochemical industry. According to results of the present survey, there is a significant difference among identified challenges in training system in the decentralised and centralised maintenance sections of Iran's petrochemical industry. Results demonstrate that effectiveness of human resources management practices in training system in the centralised maintenance section is higher than the average level and in the decentralised maintenance section, the effectiveness is lower than the average level. Also there exists a significant difference between the effectiveness level of human resources management practices in training system in the decentralised and centralised maintenance sections. Finally, there exists a significant and reversed relation among the existing challenges in training system and effectiveness of human resources management practices in this regard.

Keywords: human resource management; HRM challenges; training systems; organisational effectiveness; centralised maintenance; decentralised maintenance; case study; Iran; petrochemical industry.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2015.070250

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2015 Vol.21 No.4, pp.420 - 434

Received: 20 Feb 2014
Accepted: 16 Apr 2014

Published online: 01 Jul 2015 *

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