EFFECT OF HIGH INVOLVEMENT HRM PRACTICES ON SUPPLIER INTEGRATION: THE CASE OF THE SMES SECTOR IN KARACHI

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.