Abstract:
Purpose: The aim of this research is find out the impact of human resource management
practices on innovative work behaviour of employees. The main objective of this study is to
analyse how human resource management practices stimulates employees’ IWB in diverse
working sectors of Karachi. The human resource practices selected for this study are staffing,
training and development, rewards, job designs and performance appraisals.
Research methodology: This research follows the quantitative approach. The research was
an explanatory in nature. The quantitative data was collected using a well-structured
questionnaire. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was use as a sampling
technique. The sample size of this research is 384. Data is collected from the employees
working in the different working sectors of Karachi only. The study uses correlation and
regression analysis to test the hypotheses in the sample of 384 respondents.
Findings: The outcomes of the research discloses that there is a an impact of staffing,
training and development, job design and performance appraisals on employees’ innovative
work behaviour while on the other hand reward does not show any impact on innovative
work behaviour of employees.
Practical implications: The outcomes of this research will provide implications for many
human resource management professionals, who want to improve human resource system,
which stimulates the innovative work behaviour of employees. This study will provide the
accurate inquiries about the innovative work behaviour of employees that how it will be
effect by human resource management practices.
