Abstract:

The importance of intellectual capital in nowadays’ competitive environment is becoming apparent. The antecedents of maximum value given by employees to organizations is frequently investigated topic in organizational researches. The fact that retaining employees gain importance expresses efficient system in terms of human resource management in the level of organization, group, and individual. In this context, creating efficient working groups as work units and develop high-level group performance can be proposed as one of the human resource applications enabling employees’ organizational commitment for retaining workers. Scope of this research is evaluating the human resource applications’ efficiency for the success of group performance.In this research, group performance is appraised by first-line and second-line supervisors in hierarchical levels in addition to group members. According to findings, individuals’ evaluations regarding working groups in which they perform are related to efficiency of human resource applications in organization. Efficiency of human resource applications have relatively higher influence on group performance defined as technical dimension. Contrary to expectations, human resource applications with the dimension of problem solving-structure reveal negative relationship with group performance evaluations. Perceptual group performance measured by individuals is affected by results of performance appraisal conducted in company and group performance value forming through cumulative individual performance scores. Perceptual performance evaluation made by the second-line supervisor is positively related to average group/department performance forming via actual performance data in the company.

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