Human Resource Management Practices and the perceived Hospital performance The mediating role of Intellectual Capital.

Abstract

An extensive literature review covered two perspectives, namely, 'Human resource management (HRM) predict organizational performance' (OP), and intellectual capital predicts organizational performance. However, the linkage of "whether a bundle of good HR practices facilitates intellectual capital, which then leads to better organizational performance" is still a research gap. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of high - performance work system ( HPWS) on perceived hospital performance. In addition, this paper interesting in examining the mediating role of Human, Social and Organization capital in the hypothesized model. Data were collected from 198 HR managers working in private healthcare organizations in great Cairo. The analytical method used to empirically test the hypotheses is the structural equation modeling technique using AMOS( V.22) . The two steps are the assessment of the outer model and the assessment of the inner model. Results found that only human and social capital mediates HR practices-organizational performance relationship. This study is considered one of the first studies that examine the mediating role Human, Social and organization capital on the relationship between 'good HR practices' and organizational performance in private healthcare sector within Arab countries.