Strategic Human Resource Management Practices and Organisational Resilience of Fast-Food Firms in Choba, Port Harcourt

This study investigated the relationship between strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices and organizational resilience in Choba, Port Harcourt. The main objective of the study was to examine the relationship between strategic human resource management and organisational resilience of fast-food firms in Choba, Rivers State. SHRM practices stand as the predictor variable and was proxied by Strategic Planning (SP) and Performance Management (PM) while organisational resilience stands as the criterion variable. The study was anchored on the contingency theory as baseline for the research. The survey research design was employed, and this is because the study involved the investigation of opinion of a large number of people and the inferences were drawn from the investigation. The study made use of primary data which were gotten from questionnaire administration. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis technique was used to test the hypotheses with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0. The result revealed that there is a significant and positive relationship between SHRM practices and organisational resilience in fast-food firms in Choba, Rivers State. Based on the findings, the study recommended that due to the significant relationship between SHRM practices and organisational performance, thatthat strategic SHRM practices should be handled properly in fast-food firms, since it enhances organisational resilience and that fast-food firms should have a deep insight into the strategic human resources management practices and the activities involved in the process.