Abstract:
Human resource practices have been regarded as a significant tool to increase employee
performance. The relationship between human resource practices and employee performance
is developed by many researchers but little research has been devoted to discover the
interconnection between human resource practices and employee performance in engineering
firms of Pakistan. The main endeavor of this study is to develop the impact of human resource
practices on employee’s performance in engineering firms of Pakistan specifically electrical
and electronic manufacturing companies of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Four broad categories
of HR practices: training and development, compensation and reward, performance appraisal
and employee empowerment, have been taken as independent variables and their impact was
analyzed on employee’s performance: dependent variable. A total of 250 employees responded
to the survey based questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised of 30-items which were
evaluated using five point Likert scale and statistical analysis was carried out by using SPSS.
For data collection non-probability convenience sampling was used. Findings revealed the
extent to which these human resource practices were correlated with employee’s performance.
It is recommended that adoption of human resource practices should be enhanced to improve
the working conditions and to attain high employee performance.
