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Volume 7, Special Issue 5 (2026)

Published: September 30, 2026

Pages: 324-334

Research Article

Human resource flexibility strategies and their role in promoting Agility knowledge management : An exploratory study of a sample of workers in a men's clothing factory in Najaf

Dhrgam A. Al-Ameedi 1 Amira H. Hadaawi 1 Najlaa A. Aliwi 2
1Department of Management Business Techniques, Management Technical College / Kufa, Al -Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Najaf, Iraq
2Department of Business Management, College of Administrative Sciences, Al-Mustaqbal University, Hilla, Iraq
History
  • Received: July 26, 2026
  • Accepted: August 28, 2026
  • Available Online: September 30, 2026
DOI

https://doi.org/10.56967/ejfb2026971

Abstract

The research aims to explore the role that human resource resilience strategies can play in promoting agile knowledge management, given that human resource resilience strategies have an important role in contributing to strengthening the foundations of agile knowledge management in organizations and improving their competitive position by relying on a set of activities and procedures that enable them. From achieving that success, three strategies were relied upon to measure the independent variable, the flexibility of human resources, which are (flexible functional strategy, flexible skills strategy, and flexible behavior strategy). knowledge withdrawal). The men's clothing lab in Najaf Governorate was chosen to be a field for research and (50) of its employees were chosen as a sample for the research. The questionnaire forms on which the necessary statistical analysis methods were conducted by statistical program (SPSS.v.23) were distributed to them, with the aim of Access to search results. The research reached a set of conclusions, the most prominent of which is that human resource flexibility strategies can contribute effectively to enhancing the agile knowledge management of the organization in question.

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