مطالعات منابع انسانی (Oct 2023)
Leadership Development Strategies and its effects on Human Capital Management in Bio-Viral Crises of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Abstract
Background & Purpose: Emerging of biological-viral crises in a wide range such as Covid-19 has made serious issues in the field of human capital management for the organizations. In such a situation, the development of leaders so as to effectively manage employees is of great importance. Thus, the current research aims to identify leadership development strategies and investigate the its effects on army's human capital management in bio-viral crises.Methodology: This research conducted based on a mixed approach (qualitative-quantitative) and during a descriptive-exploratory study. The statistical population for the qualitative stage includes experts (senior managers of deputy of human resources of headquarters and their four forces as well as expert professors of AJA organizational universities), and for the quantitative stage, employees of the mentioned deputy of human resources with at least a bachelor's degree. Data was collected by the purposeful method up to the theoretical saturation with the number of 15 people in the qualitative stage and by stratified random sampling with 169 people by calculating Cochran's formula in the quantitative stage. The data collection tool in the first stage includes a semi-structured interview and in the second stage includes a 50-item questionnaire to measure the relationships between research variables. Qualitative data analysis conducted by thematic analysis method and quantitative data was analyzed through structural equation modeling.Findings: The findings indicated that leadership development strategies in bio-viral crises include behavioral development strategy (i.e., improving self-awareness, interpersonal cooperation, perceptual skills, leadership thinking and recognition of contributions), structural development strategy (i.e., distribution of leadership structure, segmentation of talents, value architecture and organizational structure architecture) and contextual development strategy (i.e., forecasting and analyzing the environment, promoting risk-taking, expanding effective communication with other leaders, and environmental analysis). Besides, the effectiveness of behavioral, environmental, and structural development strategies were the most effective ones to affect Army’s human capital management respectively.Conclusion: It is concluded that in order to effectively manage human resources in the upcoming bio-viral crises, it is necessary and effectual to focus on the behavioral development of commanders and managers. The developmental strategies introduced in this study could be helpful in this issue.
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