The effect of strategic human resource management on firm?s innovation capability and a research in the electronic industry

The key element for the establishments in the ascending competition in parallel to the globalization process is the human resources they are in possession of. When the contributions of the employees to the establishment in this circumstance is at sight, the human resources management starts to leave the narrow functional area and to take more strategic roles in the establishment. In this context, since 1990s, the strategic human resources and its contributions to the establishment have been analysed in various researches through various angles.One of the most important strategies for the establishment in the competitive atmosphere is the act of being innovative. The act of being innovative has been examined in the academic studies conducted ranging from scale of international associations (EU, NAFTA, etc.) to the company scale through different angles such as product and process innovation, radical and enhancing innovation, organizational innovation, technological innovation.The research problem with this study can be expressed as the analysis conducted by the strategic human resources management whether the establishment have the capacity of being innovative in the direction of electronic industry companies.It is possible to express the objectives of the study as; measuring the capacity of being innovative, determining the factors influencing the capacity of being innovative, determining the approaches in the applications of the human resources management, examining the co-relation between the strategic human resources and the capacity of being innovative.A survey form was created to determine the capacity of the establishments of being innovative and the degree of the perception of the strategic views of the establishments as well as the literature scan in the study. It has been requested that the specialists and directors employed in the responsible units of the R & D or human resources management or middle and senior directors to fill out the survey forms as it has been thought that they are able to perform evaluations in the aspects of applications and policies regarding human resources and the act of being innovative. The results of the 92 electronic industry companies out of 141, whose survey forms were submitted in the scope of the study, are included in the study.Due to the analysis of the data obtained in the scope of the study,a) The organizational culture, the perspective of the senior management, the structure of the organization, the human resources policies and the performance of the establishment are to influence the capacity of the act of being innovative,b) The capacity of being innovative of the establishment increase for the establishments in where the human resources management is being conducted in a more strategic manner,c) It has been seen that the capacity of the act of being innovative for the establishments and their perspectives of the strategic human resources management demonstrate differences according to the size, age, capital structure of the establishment, on the other hand, do not demonstrate differences according to the sub sector in where the establishments are located.In conclusion, it has been assessed that significant findings have been obtained for the researches who would like to conduct researches with respect to both the establishments and the subject in future.