The Role of Human Resources Flexibility in Enhancing Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of the Agile Workforce
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https://doi.org/10.31150/ajebm.v7i6.2803Keywords:
human resources flexibility, sustainable performance, agile workforceAbstract
The research aims to explore the mediating role of the agile workforce in strengthening the relationship between the role of human resources flexibility and enhancing sustainable performance at the level of the health institution affiliated with the Hussein shrine in the Holy Governorate of Karbala. The field of research is the main question that represents the intellectual problem of the study: Does adopting human resources flexibility contribute to the health institution? Researched on enhancing sustainable performance through the mediating role of an agile workforce. The research was applied in the health institution affiliated with the Hussein Shrine in the Holy Governorate of Karbala on a random sample of (144) employee respondents out of (220) members of the total study population, using a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose. Statistical methods were used to analyze the data, including equation modeling. Structural and path analysis using SPSS V.28, AMOS 26. The researchers reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a significant direct influence relationship between the research variables and the presence of a considerable indirect influence of the agile workforce in the relationship between adopting resource flexibility Humanity and enhancing sustainable performance. Based on the conclusions reached by the researchers, they were able to formulate some recommendations to improve levels of response to work requirements, the most important of which is increasing interest in the agile workforce in the health institution investigated in the field of research, as it represents the basic foundation for enhancing and improving survival and continuity, especially in light of a severe environment. Change gives workers at all levels the right to participate in decision-making in order to improve its environmental performance, and supports workers in the organization in putting new skills into use at high speed.
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