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This study investigated the relationship between human resource development practices and job performance of academic staff at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. The human resource development practices in relation to job performance of academic staff were performance appraisal, training and promotion. The study used the correlational re...
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... concept of human resource development practices was conceived in terms of performance appraisal, training and promotion. The descriptive results on the same were as presented in Table 3. ...Citations
... While there is extensive documentation on the influence of training on both organizational and employee performance (Amoah-Mensah and Darkwa, 2016;Arinaitwe et al., 2021;Kuruppu et al., 2021;Otoo and Mishra, 2018a), this study emerged from the question regarding the influence of employee training practices, specifically for public procurement professionals, on the effectiveness of the public procurement functions. Therefore, the findings support the argument that public organisations can improve procurement effectiveness in delivering goods and services at the right time, quality and at reasonable costs by enhancing training practices among public procurement professionals. ...
... This study adds to the ongoing discourse regarding the influence of HRD practices on organisational performance (Otoo et al., 2019;Sholesi, 2021), as well as employee performance (Arinaitwe et al., 2021;Arubayi et al., 2020;Otoo and Mishra, 2018a). This study adds to the literature on the role of HRD in the effectiveness of procurement practices in the public sector in Tanzania. ...
Purpose
Human resource development (HRD) has been considered in enhancing organisational operations as human resources are vital for organisational performance. This study aims to examine the role of HRD on the effectiveness of public procurement in Tanzania.
Design/methodology/approach
This study employed a cross-sectional research design under which data was collected from 168 procurement professionals in Dodoma city, Tanzania. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to analyse the collected data and examine the structural relationships between HRD and the effectiveness of public procurement in Tanzania.
Findings
The findings revealed that all the variables of human resource development; career development, training and performance appraisal, are statistically significant and positively related to the effectiveness of public procurement. Therefore, the findings reveal that career development, training and performance appraisal as HRD practices play an important role in enhancing the effectiveness of public procurement in the surveyed public procuring organisations in Tanzania.
Research limitations/implications
This current study divides HRD into three main practices: career development, training and performance appraisal. This limits the study's applicability to other HRD practices that organisations may institutionalize to public procurement professionals who work in various public organisations in Tanzania.
Originality/value
This paper integrates the concept of HRD and public procurement effectiveness. Therefore, the study adds value to the literature on human resource management and public procurement management.
