Designing a Human Resource Flexibility Model (A Study on Public Organizations in Lorestan Province)

This study is intended to design a human resource flexibility model in public organizations. The qualitative-quantitative methos is employed for this exploratory research. The qualitative phase of the study was carried on through the use of thematic analysis method which was analyzed by structural approach. in-depth and semi-structured interviews, and structuralist approach. Getting help from the Snowball method, the researchers selected 17 professors of human resource management as the experts. The qualitative data from interviews were coded in the six-step process of thematic analysis. In this stages, 344 primary codes, 112 sub-themes and 11 main themes were identified respectively, and the human resource flexibility model was designed accordingly. Based on the obtained indicators in the quantitative stage, a questionnaire was designed and was distributed among 138 managers and experts of the given organizations. The reliability of the questionnaire in the pre-test of 30 samples, using SPSS software with Cronbach's alpha method, was over 80%. The operational implementation of the model was performed on the basis of the structural equation modeling technique, and then the impact factor of its main structure and sub-structures was evaluated by LISREL software. The results revealed that the human resource flexibility model in the public organizations included three categories of individual, group and organizational variables. To create human resource flexibility, organizations have to take action in all of these areas.