Organizational development process in the context of strategic human resources management : The function of performance appraisal

In today's increasingly competitive environment, human importance becomes more prominent. The human factor, within the concept of intellectual capital, will be the key component considered in the organizational development process that enterprises will undertake depending on their environmental impact. Accordingly, the strategic perspective of human resource management may be a premise factor for the organizational component. The increasing strategic role of human resource management in enterprises may be related to the strategic human resources orientation, the applied strategic HR practices, the effectiveness of current human resource management understanding, and the competence of human resource managers. The present study analyzes data obtained from the senior human resources managers of 69 medium and large scale enterprises (tourism, foods, agricultural, civil, textile, automotive, transport, health, cleaning, trade (sales and marketing), information technologies, metal an security) and examines the effect of organizations' strategic human resource management approaches on organizational development process on the basis of planned change, organizational learning, knowledge and resource utilization, and management participation dimensions and the importance of performance evaluation function within strategic human resources management functions. The data collection method in the study was carried out using inventory. Correlation and multiple linear regression were used in the diagnosis of the proposed relationships, and analyzes were performed in the SPSS 22.0 program. Research findings suggest that HR activities are related to all sub-dimensions of organizational development. It has also been found that the dimensions of occupational health-training and performance, among the HRM practices, made a meaningful effect to planned change, knowledge and resource utilization, and participation in management.