Identify and validate excellence human resource criteria (Case Study: Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran)

The present study aimed to identify and validate the excellence human resource criteria among the staff of the Judiciary.

The nature of the research was mixed method and the research data in qualitative dimension were collected based on Snowball sampling and through semi-structured interviews with managers, experts and faculty members Specialized in the field of human resources (N=13). In the quantitative dimension, based on the method of clusters sampling, a sample of 410 people was selected from all managers, experts of the judiciary and research data were collected through researcher-made questionnaire. Reliability of data in qualitative dimension was verified by peer review and reliability of findings was verified based on reviewing of findings by interviewees. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cranach’s alpha method (0.987).

Excellence human resource criteria among the Judiciary staff was determined in the form of Technical excellence criteria (job knowledge, professional competencies), Emotional excellence (personality traits, individual and organizational attitudes) and Skill excellence (perceptual abilities, communicational abilities, administrative abilities). Also the construct validity of the model of excellence human resource criteria was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis (RMR= 0.017 ; GFI= 0.94).