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Influence of Human Resource Management Practices on Employees' Performance in Construction Organizations in Rwanda

, , and . International Journal of Innovative Science and Modern Engineering (IJISME), 5 (12): 70-74 (June 2019)

Abstract

Business environment has changed a lot. This global change is caused by factors like globalization, changing customer and investor desires, ever-increasing product-market competition. Rwanda is not an exception in this regard, and all business sectors are affected, including construction industry. Therefore, Construction firms need a continuous improvement of their performance to successfully compete in this environment, in terms of stakeholders’ satisfaction. Employees, constituting the most important organizational resource, need to be managed with a special focus, as organizational sustainability is worldwide recognized to be dependent on their performance, because many other sources of competitive success are less powerful than they used to. Today, in most of construction organizations operating in Rwanda, productivity of workers is far below expectation. Many construction firms incur a lot of loss and many projects fail because of poor HRM, despite the deployment of enough of other resources. This study was conducted to asses the influence of HR management practices on employees’ performance in construction organizations in Rwanda and to develop a HRM model to improve on HRM systems. The study used qualitative analysis with descriptive survey design and showed that, human resource management practices, have a significant influence on employees’ performance in construction organizations in Rwanda, where by the failure of some firms to meet their goals is partly due to poor application of HRM practices, leading to poor employees’ performance. The author developed an HRM framework “3Winged HRM Model” to contribute in improving organizational HRM functions and he recommended further studies to cover international construction organizations to bridge the gap of this study which focused on local construction firms in Rwanda.

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