Human Resource Management Challenges to Develop Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Developing Countries

نویسندگان

  • Arian Gholipour Department of Human Resource Management, School of Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Gholamhossein Mehralian Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharma Management, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Jafar Babapour Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharma Management, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
چکیده مقاله:

Human resource management has increasingly become one of the most important challenging issues in the pharmaceutical industry in general and in developing countries in particular to increase the access of societies to needed medicines. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the challenges of human resource management practices surrounding pharmaceutical firms in Iran, as a developing country. To answer the research question, a qualitative descriptive study using thematic analysis was performed through 22 semi-structured interviews with the key informants of Iranian pharmaceutical industry.Extracted themes of interviews were categorized into three main groups namely ability, motivation, and opportunity challenges based on the AMO model and briefly discussed separately. This is the first study investigating HRM challenges in the pharmaceutical industry; the research contributes to developing knowledge of human resource practices and assist pharma managers with better understanding how well implement human resource practices.

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عنوان ژورنال

دوره 17  شماره Special Issue 2

صفحات  224- 238

تاریخ انتشار 2018-12-01

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