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A Study of HRM Practices and Its Effect On Employees Job Satisfaction in Private Sector Banks With Special Reference To ICICI Banks in Ludhiana
A Study of HRM Practices and Its Effect On Employees Job Satisfaction in Private Sector Banks With Special Reference To ICICI Banks in Ludhiana
A Study of HRM Practices and Its Effect On Employees Job Satisfaction in Private Sector Banks With Special Reference To ICICI Banks in Ludhiana
ABSTRACT
In todays world of global business competition, organizations are facing emerging challenges in the form of procurement and
optimization of human resource capital. The success of an organization is influenced by numerous factors but the key factor
that affects the performance of organisation is its workforce. Human resources play a vital role in the achievement of
organizational objectives. The present study is an attempt to examine and analyse the effect of human resource management
practices on job satisfaction of employees of private sector bank with special reference to ICICI banks in Ludhiana city. In the
study, the estimated regression model identified that the HRM practices like Training, Performance Appraisal, Team Work and
Compensation has significant impact on job satisfaction. On the other hand Employee Participation has no significant impact
on job satisfaction of the employees of ICICI banks in Ludhiana city.
Keywords: Human Resource Management Practices, Job Satisfaction, Performance Appraisal, Team Work.
The only vital value an enterprise has is the experience, skills, innovativeness and insights of its people.
(Leif Edvisson, Swedish Intellectual Capital guru in Corporate Longitude (2002))
1. INTRODUCTION
Human resource Management (HRM) practices have changed intensely due to globalization, privatization,
deregulation, competition, and technological advancement. It is a fact that to thrive in the chaotic and turbulent
business environment, firms need to constantly innovate and be ahead of the curve in terms of business practices and
strategies. It is from this motivation to be at the top of the pack that HRM becomes a valuable tool for management to
ensure success.Human resource management aims to increase contributions of employees in organizations. Those
contributions are new ideas, productively working and success. In terms of business strategy, an organization can
succeed if it has a sustainable competitive advantage which means better than competitors at something and can hold
that advantage over a sustained period of time (Noe et al..., 2007).
In todays world of global business competition, organizations are facing emerging challenges in the form of
procurement and optimization of human resource capital. Human resources are considered as a source of sustainable
competitive advantage. The success of an organization is influenced by numerous factors but the key factor that affects
the performance of organisation is its workforce. Human resources play a vital role in the achievement of
organizational objectives by maximizing employees performance. If the employees of an organization are satisfied with
their jobs, the organization can achieve its goals very straightforwardly. In any organization HRM practices focuses on
optimal utilization and management of their human resource effectively in order to achieve maximum output.
Managing people is concerned with deciding approaches and strategies to find alternatives of how to achieve
organization goals. Any organisation without strong and effective HRM is ought to suffer serious issues during their
day to day actions.
Organizations need to have HRM practices as well as the business drivers that make the strategy imperative for
organizational success. Healthy relations need to be maintained with employees to ensure a productive workforce
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2. JOB SATISFACTION
Job satisfaction or employee satisfaction has been defined in many different ways. Some believe it is simply how
content an individual is with his or her job, in other words, whether or not they like the job or individual aspects or
facets of jobs, such as nature ofwork or supervision. Job satisfaction falls into two levels: affective job satisfaction
and cognitive job satisfaction. Affective job satisfaction is a person's emotional feeling about the job as a whole.
Cognitive job satisfaction is how satisfied employees feel concerning some aspect of their job, such as pay, hours or
benefits. There areplethora of definitions of job satisfaction, some of which are contradictory in nature.Vroom said
about job satisfaction as "Job satisfaction is generally considered to be an individuals perceptual or emotional reaction
to important parts of work.
Spector (1997) refers to job satisfaction in terms of how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of their jobs.
Ellickson and Logsdon (2002) support this view by defining job satisfaction as the extent to which employees like their
work. Schermerhorn (1993) defines job satisfaction as an affective or emotional response towardsvarious aspects of an
employee's work. The author emphasizes that likely cause of job satisfaction include status, supervision, co-worker
relationships, job content, remuneration and extrinsic rewards, promotion and physical conditions of the work
environment, as well as organisational structure.
In direct contrast, Rue and Byars (1992) refer to job satisfaction as an individual's mental stateabout the job. Robbins et
al. (2003) add that an individual with high job satisfaction will display a positive attitude towards their job, and the
individual who is dissatisfied will have a negative attitude about the job. This definition is expanded by Greenberg and
Baron (1995) who define job satisfaction as an individual's cognitive, affective and evaluative reactions toward their
jobs.
According to Coster (1992 cited in Sempane, Rieger & Roodt, 2002), the work itself could have aneffect on the total
quality of life of the employee. Schneider and Snyder (1975 cited in Sempane et al., 2002) conclude job satisfaction is
an individual's personal assessment of conditions prevalent in the job, thus evaluation occurs on the basis of factors,
which they regard as important to them.
The satisfaction level of employees also associated with increase output of the organization. Job satisfaction of an
employee is essential to the success of an organization. In an organization a high rate of employee contentedness is
directly related to a lower turnover rate. Thus, keeping employees satisfaction in their jobs with their careers should be
a foremost priority for every organization.
4. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
In order to examine the relationship between HRM practices and job satisfaction the researchers, academicians and
policy makers have investigated several studies in different time periods. Many researches have demonstrated that
HRM practices and job satisfaction are the key factors for employee performance. In this paper an attempt has been
made to assess the relationship between HRM practices and job satisfaction of private sector bank employees.
There are various HRM practices as discussed by various researchers and academicians.
Shaw et al. (1998) asserted that involuntary turnover is affected by staffing practices (recruitment and selection
process) and employee monitoring (performance appraisal).
Klaus, LeRouge& Blanton (2003) expressed that, through better job assignment or work design; employees may
display greater commitment, leading to better job performance.
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Gould-William (2003) showed that use of specific HR practices in local government organizations in the United
Kingdom (UK) was associated with a greater degree of job satisfaction, workplace trust, commitment, effort, and
perceived organizational performance.
Steijn (2004) found that HRM practices had positive effect on job satisfaction of the employees of Dutch public sector
whereas individual characteristics such as age, gender, and education had insignificant effect on job satisfaction.
Dessler (2007) HRM refers to the policies and practices involved in carrying out the human resource aspects of a
management position including human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, orientation,
compensation, performance appraisal, training and development, and labor relations.
Aswathappa, (2008) found that compensation is very much important for employees because it is one of the
main reasons for which people work. Employees living status in the society, satisfaction, loyalty, and
productivity are also influenced by the compensation. He argued that the organization should have better HR plans
to motivate its employees. Sophisticated recruitment and selection system can ensure a better fit between the
individuals abilities and the organizations requirement
Katou (2008) conducted a study to measure the impact of HRM practices on organizational performance in
manufacturing sector of Greece. The results indicated that the relationship between HRM practices (resourcing and
development, compensation and incentives, involvement and job design) and organizational performance is partially
mediated through HRM outcomes (skills, attitudes, behavior), and it is influenced by business strategies (cost, quality,
innovation). The study concluded that HRM practices are associated with business strategies will affect organizational
performance through HRM outcomes.
Thang and Buyens (2008) believed that training and development lead to superior knowledge, skills, abilities,
attitudes, and behavior of employees that ultimately enhance excellent financial and nonfinancial performance of the
organizations.
Rathnaweera (2010) -The findings of the research revealed that Human Resource Management practices are
significant predictors of employee satisfaction, commitment and retention.
Padala (2010) conducted a study to identify the various parameters for employee job satisfaction and organizational
commitment. The study revealed that employees have a positive inclination in their intensity of commitment towards
their organization. Age, education, nature of the job, length of service and income have negatively relations with the
employee job satisfaction as well as organizational commitment. Employees having very active participation in trade
union are found to have more job satisfaction and high degree of organizational commitment.
Abbas (2011) reported that financial factors, working conditions, supervision and advancement opportunities are
associated with the overall satisfaction of the banking professionals
Asta and Zivile (2011) researched on the link of HRM with organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Empirical
result unveiled that HRM practices such as skill enhancing, motivation enhancing and engagement enhancing have a
positive relation with effective human resource reaction like job satisfaction.
Martin (2011) conducted an investigation to find out the influence of HRM practices on job satisfaction, organizational
commitment and influence on intention to quit. HRM practices include recruitment & hiring, compensation & benefits,
training & development, and supervision & evaluation. The result of research found a significant relationship between
perceptions of human resource practices and intention to quit, mediated by organizational commitment and job
satisfaction.
Majumder (2012) has provided a deep insight on HRM practices and job satisfaction of employees in different private
banks of Bangladesh. His finding suggests that most of the employees are dissatisfied with compensation package
followed by reward and motivation, career growth, training and development, management style, job design and
responsibilities.
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Suman Devi and Suneja (2013) witnessed that significant difference exists between employees of public and private
sector banks in various aspects of job satisfaction, pay and fringe benefits, supervision, training and development. But
these differences are not significant in case of the aspects, in relation to co-workers, employees empowerment,
supervision, performance appraisal and nature of job.
Masoodul et al, (2013) used three HRM practices (compensation, empowerment and appraisal system) and their
impact on employee's job satisfaction and loyalty. His investigation was carried out on several government owned
banks, and the finding that compensation is most crucial for developing employee's job satisfaction; meanwhile
empowerment can be considered as a significant factor for employee's loyalty.
Hussain and Rehman (2013) examined the relationship between the HRM practices implemented by the organization
on employees intention to stay and work effectively for the organization. The result of the study explored that HRM
practices viz-a-viz: person-organization fit, employment security, communication and training and development are
contributing strongly in developing the employees intentions to stay with organization. Further, strong positive interrelationships were found between HRM practices and employees retention and such practices enhances employees
retain ability of organizations.
Lamba and Choudhary (2013) revealed that how HRM practices provide an edge to employees commitment towards
an organization goal in the global competitive market. The study concluded that HRM practices such as training &
development, compensation and welfare activities has significant effect on organizational commitment and are
associated with superior organizational performance, which help in retention of knowledgeable and skilled employees.
5. SELECTION CRITERION
ICICI Bank is India's largest private sector bank with total assets of Rs. 6,461.29 billion (US$ 103 billion) at March 31,
2015 and profit after tax Rs. 111.75 billion (US$ 1,788 million) for the year ended March 31, 2015. ICICI Bank
currently has a network of 4,450 Branches and 13,916 ATM's across India. The ICICI bank has witnessed tremendous
change in terms of human resource, technology intervention and changing nature job in the context of market demands.
For obtaining the required information interview method is used and structured schedule is filled by the researcher.
Different branches of ICICI Bank which were contacted for the present study were as follows:
1. ICICI Bank Model Town, Ludhiana
2. ICICI Bank Feroze Gandhi Market, Ludhiana
3. ICICI Bank Ltd- Sector 32A
4. ICICI Bank BRS Nagar
5. ICICI Bank Focal Point Ludhiana
6. ICICI Bank Kitchlu Nagar, Ludhiana
6. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The present study is an exploratory research seeks to examine and analyze the impact of human resource management
practices on job satisfaction of private sector banking employees. For the present study ICICI Bank, a leading private
sector bank is taken as case study. The sample units include executives, middle level managers and managers who are
working in the different departments of branches ofICICI Bank in Ludhiana. For the study 100 respondents were
contacted for obtaining the information regarding HRM practices. But due to busy time schedules of bank employee and
their engagement in various activities the numbers of respondents were restricted upto 92.
Methodology: For the current study two methodologies are followed. The first is Qureshiand Ramay (2006) scale
on HRM practices comprised of 25 statements on training, team work, performance appraisal, compensation, and
employee participation. The second is Singh (2001) scale on job satisfaction comprises of 20 statements. The
reliability and validity of these instruments is found to be within acceptable norms.
Model Specification: Further for analyzing the impact of human resource management practices on job
satisfaction the multiple linear regression models have been applied using SPSS. The regression model is depicted
as:
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From the table 1 it can be concluded that HRM practices variables have no high correlation or presence of
multicolinearlity, which is above the standard rule of thumb 80%. The results from correlation analysis indicate that job
satisfaction of employees is negatively correlated with employee participation and other HRM practices like training,
performance appraisal, team work and compensation are positively correlated with job satisfaction.
7.2 REGRESSION ANALYSIS RESULTS
Explanatory
Variables
Variables
Constant
0.721*
(0.341)
Training
Compensation
0.154*
(0.012)
t-values
0.965
2.541
R2
0.772
F-Test
17.89
(*) indicates significant at 5% level.
Performance
Appraisal
-0.186
(0.054)
-1.984
Team
Work
0.891*
(0.000)
Employee
Participation
-0.089*
(0.048)
8.352
-2.147
Adj. R2 0.687
Durbin Watson 2.214
0.473*
(0.008)
2.926
Coefficient effect (i) is a predictor of each variable related to HRM practices. The regression analysis results reveal the
following observations:
1. The adjusted value of R2 highlights that 68.7 percent variability in the job satisfaction of employees can be
explained by HRM practices (independent variables).
2. The Durban Watson test value 2.214 indicates the absence of no serial correlation among the variables.
3. An F-Test value is 17.89 and p-values less than 5% for the data variables indicates the very well fit of regression
model. In other words the null hypothesis (Ho: There is no effect of given explanatory variables on dependent
variables) is rejected.
4. The regression results highlights that performance appraisal has no significant effect on job satisfaction at 5% level
of significance.
5. The regression coefficients of the other independent variables of HRM practices are statistically significant at 5%
significance level and they have significant influence on job satisfaction of the employees of ICICI Bank.
6. As shown in the above table the results of regression analysis can also be depicted in the regression equation form
based on regression coefficients.
Pit= 0.721 + 0.154T - 0.186P + 0.891TW - 0.089 EP + 0.473C
Based on the above equation it can be inferred that Performance Appraisal (P) has negative and insignificant influence
on Job Satisfaction (JS), whereas Employee Participation (EP) has negative but significant influence on Job Satisfaction
(JS). The 1 is 15.4%, t-value is 2.541 which is less than p-value at 5% level of significance. Thus H01 is rejected. It
means Training has significant influence on Job Satisfaction in ICICI Bank.
The 2 coefficient shows -18.6% influence of Performance Appraisal (P) on Job satisfaction. But these results are not
statistically significant at 5% significance level. The t-value is -1.984, which is more than p-value at 5% level of
significance. Thus H02 is accepted and it is inferred that the Performance Appraisal has no significant influence on Job
satisfaction.
In the HRM practices Team Work (TW) shows positive correlation with Job Satisfaction. The 3 shows 89% influence
on the Job Satisfaction, t-value is 83.52 and p-value is less at 5% significance level hence H03 is rejected.
The regression results reveal that Employee Participation (EP) has negative and significant influence on Job
Satisfaction. The 4 coefficient shows 9% influence on the Job Satisfaction, t-value is -2.147 and p-value is less at 5%
significance level. Hence H04 is rejected. Thus it is observed that in case of ICICI Bank Employee Participation has
significant impact on the Job Satisfaction.
The regression coefficient 5 which measures compensation has 47% influences on Job Satisfaction of sample
employees. The t-value is2.926 and p-value is less at 5% significance level. Hence H05 is rejected
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