THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE MEDIATING ROLE OF INNOVATION: A CASE STUDY OF MIANDOAB CITY’S EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Strategic human resources practices are unique to organizations and aim to contribute to a company's efficiency, expansion and growth. This study examines how these practices impact organizational performance in Miandoab city’s education department, taking organizational innovation into account as a moderating factor. This research is functional in terms of purpose and quantitative in data collection conducted as a field study. The statistical population consisted of 218 specilalist from Miandoab’s education department, selected by simple random sampling method. Three questionnaires were used to collect data. The validity of the questions was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that strategic human resource management has a significant impact of 44% on organizational performance and 76% on organizational innovation. Organizational innovation significantly affects organizational performance with a factor of 59%. The findings also confirmed the mediating role of organizational innovation in the research community. This study indicates that strategic management of human resources indirectly has a greater impact on organizational performance in the education department of Miandoab city through organizational innovation with an impact factor of 45%.