The Mediating Role for Knowledge Sharing in the Relationship between HRM Practices (AMO) and the Innovative Performance for SMEs Employees at Yanbu

This research aims to measure the relationship of human resource management practices (AMO), represented by: (Abilities enhancing practices, motivation enhancing practices, opportunities enhancing practices) and knowledge sharing in enhancing Innovative performance :products and operations in small and medium Enterprises in Yanbu Governorate, a conceptual framework was developed from a previous studies, and the relationships between its variables were built and tested using the structural equation model (SEM). The results indicate that there is a direct positive effect of Abilities enhancing practices on knowledge sharing (KS) and Innovative performance in its two dimensions (product and process Innovation), while the direct effect of motivation enhancing practices and opportunity enhancing practices on knowledge sharing (KS) and Innovative performance in its two dimensions (product and process Innovation) was not significant. The results indicate that there is a significant correlation between all variables of the study, and the results also indicate that there is a direct positive effect of human resource management practices (AMO) on both knowledge sharing (KS) and Innovative performance (IP) product and process Innovation, and it was proven that there are differences Significant differences between SMEs Employees according to (age, and some variables according to the number of experience years, educational level, and company size), while it was proven that there were no significant differences between SMEs Employees regarding some study variables (gender, and some variables according to number Experience Years).