In effective human resource practices and turn over in Lebanese universities

Introduction3

Human resource management3

Human resource management in educational institutions4

Hypotheses for the study5

Research context6

The problem background6

Research aims and objectives7

Research question8

Rationale of the study8

Limitation of the study9

Ethical considerations9

Primary research ethics10

Secondary research12

Time scale12

Literature review14

Human resource management; a descriptive approach15

The definition of human resource management16

The effectiveness of Human resource management practices18

The perspective of managing human capital in educational institution20

Contextual description20

The hiring of respected faculty23

The retention23

Employee turnover23

Reasons for turnover24

Methodology28

Qualitative approach28

Secondary research28

Rationale for choosing the methodology29

Research design29

Search technique30

Quantitative research31

Overview of Quantitative Research Approach32

Ethical Concerns34

References36

Introduction

The chapter focuses upon the picture of human resource practices. The whole idea behind the chapter is to sketch a picture of entire paper that corresponds to the execution of human resource management practices in renowned Lebanese universities pertaining to the business education, as well as, the intention of instructors' turnover as a resultant factor. The purpose of the chapter is to probe into different facets of human resource management practices and explain their mechanism in the first place. The chapter looks into the detail of the topic, as well as, the background and the foreground. In the end of the chapter, it attempts to close the entire idea in a nutshell that lays a firm and well-grounded foundation for the entire paper.

Human resource management

For any organization, it is far more important to look after their most important and fundamental strategic asset, that is, human resource. The term human resource management is defined as “how a business organization plans, organizes, direct and controls their human capital”. Human resource management is a very vast field; however, it is the most important facet of organizational management. It is quite obvious that organizations are not run by machines but by people. The human capital of an organization determines the entire capacity and strength f an organization.

The effectiveness of human resource management practices is very mandatory. It develops the knack in people to approach the strategic vision, as well as, focus upon organizational effectiveness. Strong organization have tied their success around this one line secret, they treat their people well, and manage their affairs with them. Successful organizations know how to work with people.

Human resource management leads to success and effectiveness, so as to gain competitive advantage. Human resource is the only competitive advantage that could not be copied. Organizations could build huge empires basing the foundation of a well-trained and directed workforce (Armstrong, 2008).

Human resource management in educational institutions

The adapting planet request has liberated us to examine the ways individuals are administered in any organizational or institutional set up. In higher institutional establishments like universities, human assets additionally implied as intellectual capital, are the different classes of workers or individuals who commit their group quality of capacities, learning, abilities, life encounters and inspiration for the development of the college (Armstrong, 2008).

Human Resource Management guarantees that human talent is utilized viably and productively to perform organizational objectives. Onto every part of the planet now, Human Resource management is being influenced in all angles ...