The Relationship Between Human Resource Management Innovation and Enterprise Innovation Performance and the Mediating Role of Employee Competencies in SMEs in China

In the face of today’s competitive and complex environment, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China need to innovate in order to foster their development and achieve their business goals. Human resource management is a part of business innovation that cannot be ignored. How to innovate through...

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Main Author: Jia Ziyu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2023-01-01
Series:SHS Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2023/12/shsconf_icssed2023_02005.pdf
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description In the face of today’s competitive and complex environment, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China need to innovate in order to foster their development and achieve their business goals. Human resource management is a part of business innovation that cannot be ignored. How to innovate through human resources so as to improve the innovative performance of enterprises and how to ensure that enterprises’ human capital contributes to the achievement of their goals are issues that every SME needs to face. This research proposes a model of the relationship between human resource management innovation, employee competencies, and enterprise innovation performance. The model was tested on a survey of 110 employees from a sample of Chinese SMEs. The results show that human resource management innovation is positively related to enterprise innovation performance; human resource management innovation is positively related to employee competencies; employee competencies are positively related to enterprise innovation performance; employee competencies play a partially mediating role in the positive relationship between human resource management innovation and enterprise innovation performance.
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spelling doaj.art-660159ada0b84b9ea126114ec43ec5122023-05-02T09:41:55ZengEDP SciencesSHS Web of Conferences2261-24242023-01-011630200510.1051/shsconf/202316302005shsconf_icssed2023_02005The Relationship Between Human Resource Management Innovation and Enterprise Innovation Performance and the Mediating Role of Employee Competencies in SMEs in ChinaJia Ziyu0The University of WarwickIn the face of today’s competitive and complex environment, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China need to innovate in order to foster their development and achieve their business goals. Human resource management is a part of business innovation that cannot be ignored. How to innovate through human resources so as to improve the innovative performance of enterprises and how to ensure that enterprises’ human capital contributes to the achievement of their goals are issues that every SME needs to face. This research proposes a model of the relationship between human resource management innovation, employee competencies, and enterprise innovation performance. The model was tested on a survey of 110 employees from a sample of Chinese SMEs. The results show that human resource management innovation is positively related to enterprise innovation performance; human resource management innovation is positively related to employee competencies; employee competencies are positively related to enterprise innovation performance; employee competencies play a partially mediating role in the positive relationship between human resource management innovation and enterprise innovation performance.https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2023/12/shsconf_icssed2023_02005.pdf
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title_full The Relationship Between Human Resource Management Innovation and Enterprise Innovation Performance and the Mediating Role of Employee Competencies in SMEs in China
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title_short The Relationship Between Human Resource Management Innovation and Enterprise Innovation Performance and the Mediating Role of Employee Competencies in SMEs in China
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