The Place of Human Resources Competency Analysis in the Strategic Plans of Universities: A Qualitative Research


In Turkey strategic planning of public administration, regulated by law 5018 in 2003 and began to be used in public institutions since 2006. Until that date, concepts such as performance, result orientation, strategic thinking and strategic decision making, which were generally in the field of business, started to be widely used in public administration since then. Today’s organizations have to make strategic planning and have qualified human resources (HR) to ensure sustainability, shape the future, and achieve advantages in competition. On the other hand, the widespread use of such tools -the competitive superiority struggle caused by the business world, the increasing number of foundation universities, performance, strategic thinking and decision making, result orientation, total quality management etc.- forced universities to run like companies and directed them to act within the framework of strategic management approach. As such, universities have to manage more based on performance and create human capital equipped with competencies than ever before. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the steps taken by universities related to the human resource competencies, which have gained importance as a strategic factor. Under the heading of internal analysis of universities, strategic plans were accessed in order to evaluate HR competency analyses. 128 public universities constitute the universe of the study and 104 universities with an active strategic plan constitute the study group. We investigated quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate whether the HR competency analysis had been carried out as stated in the Strategic Planning Guide. The data obtained were subjected to content analysis and evaluated under themes and categories. It has been revealed that 98% of the universities included quantitative data analyses and 7% qualitative data analyses in their strategic plans.


Keywords


Strategic Planning, Human Resource, Competency, PublicUniversities, Competency Analysis.

Author : Emel BAHAR -Onur Başar ÖZBOZKURT
Number of pages: 1717-1735
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.43599
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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