TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptual asymmetries in perceived quality of HR function resulting from ownership transformation: A public‐to‐private scenario
AU - Asadullah, Muhammad Ali
AU - Fatima, Naima
AU - Siddiquei, Ahmad Nabeel
AU - Rasheed, Maria
AU - Wahba, Karim
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Policymakers use privatization to transform a drowning public sector firm into a profitable institution while ignoring its effects on different organizational members. This study advances HR research on ownership transformation and its human resource implications by exploring potential effects of privatization on changes in perceptions of key HR service providers and service receives (i.e., HR and Non‐HR line managers) about the quality of HR business partnership role. This qualitative investigation is based on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with eight Non‐HR and three HR line managers of a privatized fertilizer company in Pakistan. We proposed that the transformation of ownership positively affects the line manager's perceptions about strategic partner and change agent role of the HR Function. The line managers' perceptions about the expert administrative role remained almost unaffected, while their perceptions about employee champion role of HR Function are negatively affected after privatization. This study has contributed to the existing knowledge by highlighting the role of ownership transformation, particularly privatization in employees' perceptions about the business partner role of HR Function in a fertilizer firm.
AB - Policymakers use privatization to transform a drowning public sector firm into a profitable institution while ignoring its effects on different organizational members. This study advances HR research on ownership transformation and its human resource implications by exploring potential effects of privatization on changes in perceptions of key HR service providers and service receives (i.e., HR and Non‐HR line managers) about the quality of HR business partnership role. This qualitative investigation is based on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with eight Non‐HR and three HR line managers of a privatized fertilizer company in Pakistan. We proposed that the transformation of ownership positively affects the line manager's perceptions about strategic partner and change agent role of the HR Function. The line managers' perceptions about the expert administrative role remained almost unaffected, while their perceptions about employee champion role of HR Function are negatively affected after privatization. This study has contributed to the existing knowledge by highlighting the role of ownership transformation, particularly privatization in employees' perceptions about the business partner role of HR Function in a fertilizer firm.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089729665&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/pa.2324
DO - 10.1002/pa.2324
M3 - Article
SN - 1472-3891
VL - 22
JO - Journal of Public Affairs
JF - Journal of Public Affairs
IS - 1
M1 - e2324
ER -