Identifying the factors affecting sustainable human resources with a meta synthesis approach

Document Type : Original Article

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Associate Professor, lorestan university, khoramabad, iran

10.22080/shrm.2024.4830

Abstract

Employees and their performance, play an essential role in the success of any organization, and employee performance management is one of the most important issues in organization management. In this regard, one of the organizational concerns is sustainability of human resources and the factors affecting it. Therefore, the current research was conducted through the combination of previous research with the aim of presenting a all-inclusive image of the factors affecting sustainable human resources. This research has an applied purpose and meta synthesis method has been used in it. The researchers have done a detailed and in-depth investigation on the subject with the meta synthesis method and have combined the results of the past researches which are qualitative. Accordingly, after searching the databases, in the time range of 2016 to 2023 for domestic research and 2000 to 2023 for foreign research, 147 related studies were evaluated and finally, after reviewing 56 articles, they were selected. Using the seven-step model of Sandusky and Barroso, the findings of 56 previous studies related to the research objectives were reviewed, aggregated, combined and interpreted. Using the coding method, the number of 155 codes, 21 components and 5 concepts (social factors, environmental factors, economic factors, organizational factors and welfare factors) were identified and the pattern of factors affecting sustainable human resources was presented and drawn

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