Designing an Individual Human Resources Development Plan and Elaboration of its Role in the Organizational Performance (Case Study: Social Security Organization, Tehran Branch)

The study is of the basic-applied research type that uses a combined exploratory research method. The study population is comprised of 16 human resources development experts and social security organization’s managers in the qualitative section and 351 staff members working in social security organization as the study sample volume in the quantitative section. Purposive sampling was the method of choice in the qualitative section and simple randomized sampling was utilized in the quantitative part. The data collection instrument was semi-structured interviews in the qualitative section and Heresy and Goldsmith’s organizational performance questionnaire and a researcher-constructed human resources development questionnaire in the quantitative section. To analyze the data in the qualitative section, use was made of NVivo11 in the qualitative section and SPSS19 was employed in the quantitative section. The data analysis method included a qualitative grounded theory method (open, pivotal and selective coding) and Pearson correlation and simultaneous regression in the quantitative section. The study results resulted in the formation of an individual HR development pattern in the qualitative section for Tehran’s social security organization; in the quantitative section, the effect of the pattern on the organizational performance was investigated and the results signified the positive effect of the individual HR development on the organizational performance. The present study’s findings can offer applied and operational implications in line with individual HR development and organizational performance improvement in social security organization.