Developing a model of HR manager as coach by Grounded Theory in National Iranian Petrochemical Company

In recent years, the role of coaching human resource managers has been proposed as a new paradigm in organizations. Accordingly, present research aimed at designing HR as coach paradigm in National Iranian Petrochemical Company by utilizing a qualitative technique based on grounded theory. Data collection has been done by semi-structured interview with 15 managers, heads and expert of human resources and the receivers of HR services in petrochemical industry who were selected and interviewed by objective and snowball sampling methods. The collected data was analyzed in three steps of open coding, critical coding and selective coding. Research findings indicate 18 general category, 51 sub-category and 160 minor category that were designed and identified as a paradigm of human resources manager as coach in the form of causal, contextual and intervener conditions, axial category, strategies and consequences.