Impact of Human Resources Management Policies and Practices on Productivity and Efficiency Of Sudanese Companies

Abstract

As previous researchers and writers justified that, HRM policies and practices have an impact on companies’ performance, this study aims at discussing the effect made by HRM policies and practices, on the productivity and efficiency of Sudanese companies, through affecting employees’ abilities, attitudes and performance, i.e. it tries to examine the relationships between these policies and performance in Sudanese work place organizations. The researcher selected the NEC as a case study, as one of the Sudanese corporations that affected by labor laws and legislations in formulating HR policies necessary to perform for success in business field. The problem of the study is well defined with six stated hypotheses, and the importance and limits of the research are set out. The organization of the study is some what different that contains preface and four chapters. The literature review depends on HRM main text books from libraries, the Sudanese labour acts and NEC rules. The methodology of the research concentrates on tools that are used to collect primary and secondary data. The data was processed and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The analyses followed the pattern of comparisons between the NEC performance, productivity and efficiency before and after making improvements in its HRM policies, procedures and systems. The results of the study show that changes and developments in HRM functions, realize significant variations in performance, productivity and efficiency before and after developing HRM policies and practices. Therefore, the research concluded that, there is a positive direct relationship between the HRM functions and companies performance, and it suggests some recommendations to the Sudanese companies to follow for realizing better performance, productivity, efficiency and profits.