Human resource management practices in ZAIN cellular communications company operating in Jordan

• Authors: Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Mohammad
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the best human resource management (HRM) practices at ZAIN; cellular communications company operating in Jordan. study consisted of employees in ZAIN Cellular Communications Company in Jordan. All participants of this study were employees working in the organization - staff, team leaders, supervisors, programmers, project leaders, business analysts, managers, assistant managers. The findings in the paper that there are relatively high levels of practice for the areas of Training and development, Performance Appraisal, along with Communication and information sharing. Recruitment and selection is the one area, on the other hand, where a considerably lower mean level of practice exists.

Keywords

EN

human resource management; Zain; cellular communications company; Jordan

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 26-34

Dates

published

2011-08-12

Contributors

author

Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Mohammad

• Finance and Business Administration Department, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan

• Prague Development Center, Czech Republic

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DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2011.25