Abstract:
Purpose- The sole purpose ofthis research is to find out the impact ofthe components of high
involvement HRM practices i.e., employee skills, employee incentives and employee
participation on supplier integration ofthe SMEs sector in Karachi.
Methodology & Design- the responses were received from employees working in the HR and
Supply chain department by sending close ended question. Questionnaire were sent to different
small and medium enterprises companies to get the responses through google forms. The
nature ofthis research is quantitative. The sample size ofthis research is 300. Reliability test,
correlation and regression tests were run by using SPSS toolsto analyze the result ofthis study.
Findings- The result ofthis study showed that there is a significant impact of employee skills,
employee incentives and employee participation on supplier integration in the SMEs sector of
Karachi.
Limitations- Due to the Covid-19 situation, reaching out to the respective employees were the
biggest problem as government announced lockdown for specific period and also most ofthe
organization move towards work from home strategy. Also because ofthe time constraint, the
scope ofthis study is only limited to the SMEs sector of Karachi.
Recommendations- SMEs sector around the world become quite competitive. By competitive we mean
that companies are now more focusing in achieving advance technology and methods
in order to decrease the overall supply chain cost, holistic approaches for human resources
management in global SCM should also be outlined in future research.
