The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the mediation role of port supply chain integration between Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and port performance (PP) in Kingdome of Saudi Arabia. The present study employed partial lest square structural equation modeling technique to analyze the collected data. | Mediating role of port supply chain integration between involvement of human resource practices and port performance in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Uncertain Supply Chain Management 7 2019 507 516 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Uncertain Supply Chain Management homepage uscm Mediating role of port supply chain integration between involvement of human resource practices and port performance in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohameed Saud Miraa Yap Voon Choonga and Chan Kok Thima Faculty of Management Multimedia University Kualalumpur Malaysia a CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the mediation role of port supply chain Received October 2 2018 integration between Human Resource Management HRM practices and port performance PP Accepted November 23 2018 in Kingdome of Saudi Arabia. The present study employed partial lest square structural equation Available online modeling technique to analyze the collected data. The study found some positive significant November 23 2018 Keywords direct relationship between HRP port supply chain integration PSCI and PP. Besides this study Port Supply Chain Integration also found some positive and significant relationship between HRP and PSCI. Additionally the Human Resource Practices study confirms the mediating role of PSCI between HRP and PP. The study contributes to the Port performance literature and to the practice of ports to understand how the process of HRP and PSCI produces Kingdom of Saudi Arabia better port performance. 2019 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada 1. Introduction Background The ports have major economic and strategic importance for countries as they facilitate imports and exports by having connected geographical locations subsequently fostering the local national and regional economy and boosting firm s competitiveness along the entire global supply chain Song amp Parola 2015 . In the context of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
