Effect of strategic human resource management practices on employee’s organizational performance with mediating role of organizational learning (case study: sport and youth offices in Markazi Province)

The purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of strategic human resource management practices on the employee’s organizational performance with the mediating role of organizational learning of sports and youth offices in the Markazi Province.

The method of this research work was descriptive-correlational, which was done by survey. The statistical population of this work included the staff of the Sports and Youth Department of the Markazi Province, from which 95 people were randomly selected as a statistical sample. Standard questionnaires of strategic human resource management measures, organizational learning questionnaire, and employee organizational performance questionnaire were used to collect the research data. The research data was analyzed using the structural equation modeling test in the SPSS software (version 23) and Smart PLS (version 3).

The results showed that the strategic human resource management practices had a positive and significant effect on the employee’s organizational performance and organizational learning by the coefficients of 0.65 and 0.81, respectively. Also organizational learning with a coefficient of 0.71 had a direct and significant positive effect on the employee’s organizational performance (P ≤ 0.05). In addition, organizational learning had a minor mediating role in the relationship between strategic human resource management practices and organizational performance of employees.

According to the results, it is suggested that the officials of the studied organizations take the necessary measures to improve the performance evaluation status, the participation of employees in organizational activities, which can ultimately improve their organizational learning and organizational performance.