Culture And Strategic Human Resource Practices Practices: Case Of Jordan And Turkey

Abstract

The
practices of SHRM are extremely significant in worldwide organizations, as they regulat e a s well as manag e
the components of organization s to help in achiev ing the target goals. However, they differ among nations as
they are being built according to the differentiation of national culture, Hence, the present research focuses on
expl oiting the impact of culture based on Hofstede’s dimension on the strategy followed by managing the
human resources of th e organizations in different countries of the world . so that we made a comparative
analysis between Jordan and Turkey, using a descriptive methodology supported with interviews conducted
equivalently in both countries. The study show s that the analyzed SHR M practices from the two interviewed
companies in Jordan and T urkey implicate few significant relation s of the cultural diminution impacting the
practices specifically it was noticed that masculinity and individualism have a higher impact and long term
ori entation, power distance with a minor impactor, but on the other hand indulgence and uncertainty
avoidance were mostly neglected in the studied countries.