Influence of human resource management practices on employee performance: Evidence from Cape Coast metropolitan assembly.

Abstract

The study set out to examine the effect of human resource management practices on employee performance in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana. Specifically, the study sought to analyze the effect of reward and compensation on employee performance, examine the influence of recruitment and selection of employee performance, determine the effect of performance appraisal on employee performance, investigate influence of training and development on employee performance and examine the combined effect of the four dimensions of human resource management practices on employee performance. The study was based on the views of 216 employees from the study area. Linear and multiple regression analysis were used to establish the influence human resource management practices and employee performance. The results show that human resource management practices such as reward and compensation, recruitment and selection, performance appraisal and training and development had a positive and significant influence on performance of employee Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana. Results from multiple regression also suggest that human resource management practices greatly influence employee performance. It was recommended that management should take additional steps to organize and implement regular HRM programmes for employees to improve innovativeness to yield the needed employee performance again, human resource management practices should cover all employees with regards to their various areas of performance.