Explaining and Designing the External Factors Model for Strategic Human Resource Planning Based on Recruiting and Laying Off Knowledge Workers (Case Study: National Development Fund of Iran)

Abstract

The present study was conducted to explain and design the external factors of the strategic human resource (HR) planning model based on recruiting and laying off knowledge workers in the National Development Fund. The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of two groups. The first group consists of experts familiar with theories of strategic HR planning as well as recruiting and laying off knowledge workers, with an unspecified number scattered across the country and selectively chosen. In this research, their theories are used in the “Formulation and Design” section. The second group consists of knowledge workers (with university education) from the National Development Fund (2115), 325 of whom were selected as a sample according to the Cochran formula. Questionnaires on external factors of strategic HR planning, knowledge workers, recruitment and laying off knowledge workers were used to collect the data. Their validity was 0.915, 0.949, 0.938, 0.921, and their reliability was 0.86, 0.991, 0.946, and 0.902, respectively. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling (SEM) by LISREL version 8.8. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between the external factors of strategic HR planning (e.g. economic conditions, geographic conditions, technological conditions, social conditions, and cultural conditions) and the recruitment of knowledge workers in the National Development Fund. There was also a significant relationship between the external factors of strategic HR planning (e.g. economic conditions, geographic conditions, technological conditions, social conditions, and cultural conditions) and laying off knowledge workers in the National Development Fund.