Designing the competency model of human resources of Mazandaran Gas Company with the method of Multi Grounded theory

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran.

2 PhD, Human Resource Management, Mazandaran Gas Company, Sari, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Mazandaran University

4 PhD student in Business Administration, Mazandaran University

5 Expert of Gas Company of Mazandaran province

10.22080/shrm.2024.4840

Abstract

The competency approach is one of the latest approaches in human resource management, which tries to make the human resource management systems coherent and integrated by focusing on the organization's competencies and realizing the organization's lofty goals in achieving sustainable competitive advantage. The current research was conducted to create a human resource competency model for Mazandaran Gas Company. This research is applied-developmental in terms of purpose and qualitative research in terms of implementation (using the multi-grounded theory approach). To collect information, various databases have been reviewed between 2010 and 2023 for foreign research, and internal articles, have been reviewed between 2015 and 2023. Also, the laws and regulations of the upstream oil industry in the Mazandaran Gas Company and the description of the duties of each unit were examined to identify the dimensions of human resources competence of the Mazandaran Gas Company, and an in-depth interview was conducted with 23 experts who have high work experience. MAXQDA software was used to analyze, categorize, and code indicators. After examining the texts of the conducted interviews, the description of the duties of all departments and related articles in this field and their coding and categorization, 514 concepts (with a frequency of 914), and 59 subcategories have been counted. Finally, after placing and integrating the obtained indicators, a three-dimensional model was extracted. Based on this model, the competence dimensions of Mazandaran's human resources include the individual dimension, the organizational dimension, and the social dimension.

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