Abstract
This study explores how state enterprises, incorporating competing
institutional logics, internally manage the contradiction of logics that
they embody. Using case study research design, the study attempts to
evaluate adoption of private-sector HRM practices (in place of
contradictory personnel administration practices) in Sui Northern Gas
Pipelines Limited. Twenty-one in-depth interviews are conducted from
both within and outside HR department. Additionally, HR policy
documents were analyzed. The study found that the enterprise adopted
modern human resource management by (i) creating a Human Resource
Management Committee, (ii) creating a position of Senior General
Manager HR, (iii) bifurcation of HR and administrative activities, and
(iv) horizontal integration of HR practices through performance
management system. However, evidence from outside the HR department
revealed that these modern HR practices are not implemented in their
true spirit and traditional employment practices are still in operation.
Using the strategy of symbolic compliance to modern HRM, the
enterprise has incorporated both (modern and traditional) logics in HR
system. The study supports the argument of institutional logics
perspective that instead of conformity to institutional pressures, the
organizations can use its discretion in choosing appropriate strategy to
manage contradictory logics.
Shabana Naveed, Dr. Yaamina Salman, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Prof. Dr. Nasira Jabeen, Naveed Saeed Rana. (2017) Inside state enterprises: Symbolic compliance to modern HRM as a response to contradictory institutional logics, Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-10, Issue-1.
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