THE EFFECT OF OUTSOURCING HUMAN RESOURCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Year 2011, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 131 - 144, 01.12.2011

İşık Çiçek Bilal Özer

Abstract

The improvement that high organizational performance provides is becoming
more critical in today’s increasing conditions of competition. The effects of
human resource functions and organizational culture to perform a significant
organizational efficiency attracts both theoreticians’ and practitioners’ interest
much more. When outsourcing is considered as one of the methods that
organizations utilize for strengthening their core competencies to allocate their
resources efficiently, the question of the degree to which human resource
functions could be outsourced brings in mind the effect of organizational culture
enabling outsourcing on organizational performance.
Besides performing the administrative services such as catering, cleaning,
employee transportation, and security as outsourcing, operations of some human
resource practices like training and payroll via outsourcing contribute the desired
performance positively by means of only true strategy and organizational culture
shaping the strategy. The performance of human resource management and the
viewpoints of employees about outsourcing have critical importance to improve a
convenient strategy. In this literature research, what kind of human resource
practices can be outsourced and can add value to organizational performance
are discussed. The influence of workers’ changing attitudes about outsourcing
towards organization in detail and the effect of organizational culture in the
mentioned relationships are missing in the literature.

Keywords

Human Resource Management, Organizational Culture, Outsourcing, Organizational Performance

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