The impact of human resources management practices on organizational performance

Human resources management (HRM) applications are, by putting the worker in the center and guiding and expanding them in the direction of the organization's goals, an organization's most important working gears (Huselid, 1995). HR applications should improve workers' knowledge and skills, provide motivaion and in doing so develop the worker, make strong connections to the organization and provide personal satisfaction to the workers. HRM supports the organization in reaching their goals and imrpoves the organization's performance by providing cultural orientation of the workers and choosing workers that are open for development (Guthrie, 2001). According to research, there is a direct correlation between HRM and organizational performance. However, this correlation is likely to be a sided observation because the research has been conducted mostly with executives that are responsible for human resources. Moreover, it is not clear whether the performance improvement is caused by HRM applications, or the skills that are already present in the organization. It can also be seen that the research that has tried to find out this corelation is limited in our country. Taken from this perspective, the research paradigm is very important by its way of conduct and its inclusivity of different cultures in Turkey. Are human resources applications used for improving productivity, or modeled as an imitation? In order to find this out, our main goal in the research has been not only revealing HRM applications' effect on performance, but to also find out about the reasoning behind it. Therefore, it is vital to detect how workers in various organizations in Turkey benefit from HR applications, and the effect it has on their performance. For this reason, a questionnaire with many variants has been developed to be able to test the worker's perception and experiences.As a result of the research, the worker perception of HRM applications and the effect it had made on their working performance in the context of Turkey has been measured. Moreover, it has been possible to shed light on thehuman resources activities that take the side of the worker in Turkey, and it is hoped that awareness towards HRM applications has increased and organizations' management are able to benefit from the research.In the first part of the research, a brief intrduction has been made to the development of human resources management in the world and Turkey, the theories that shaped human resources, and seven of the human resources management applications that have been developed thanks to these theories have been selected and explained in the second part of the research. In the third part, a questionnaire that will explain the relation between these independent variants and organizational performance has been developed, and the effects of human resources applications on organizational performance have been analyzed. Lastly, the fourth part offers a conclusion to the research.