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ANALYZING THE ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCES

ABSTRACT
This thesis examines the role of Human Resources Analytics in strategic decision making . It analyses the current position of Human Resources in companies with open innovation approach, focuses on challenges of open innovation implementation and reviews how Human Resources, and organizational practices, can help to overcome those challenges, as well as it foresees the entire role of Human Resources in open innovation process.
The theoretical part of the research consists of the literature overview devoted to open innovation, Human Resource Management and application of Human Resource Management to open innovation. The qualitative research method has been applied by conducting the in- depth interviews from open innovation practitioners and the inductive data analysis comparing the findings with the theoretical statements.
The results show ambiguous view on the role of Human Resources in open innovation: it finds more support from the theoretical perspective than from the practical implication. Human Resources does not participate in the process of open innovation currently, though, some organizations have already recognized its necessity to join this process. However, the organizations face many challenges to implement open innovation and many of them indicate where Human Resources can be influential and which organizational practices can help to overcome those barriers. Overall, the role of Human Resources in open innovation is an emerging process with a prediction of strong impact in the nearest future. However, in order to be involved in open innovation, Human Resources role has to be reconsidered and become more innovative itself.

Submitted by: 
Nagham Ibrahim
Supervisor: 
Dr.Raheel Asghar 
Date: November,2024 
EIU-PARIS