The relationship between organizational performance and Human Resource Management has been a strongly argued topic through the decades. Throughout this paper, a closer look at the issues associated with HR practices and HR development in term of the academic institutes' enterprises. This paper also responds to the call of several HRM researchers who have emphasized the necessity of investigations into HRM practice issues. To date, almost all the studies on this topic have been conducted with

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... ard to the industrial sector in the western context, but not in the service sector such as private universities. Many modifications and reforms have been attempted so far; however, nothing has been achieved except recycling the devious and reiterating the obvious. In Jordan, carrying out the performance reviews of the college and university programs have been intentionally avoided by the Ministry of Higher