Background: Open innovation is one of the paradigms in the field of management, based on which companies can use the ideas and paths of the domestic and foreign markets as a basis for speeding up and improving their technology and product innovation. The current research was conducted with the aim of presenting and examining the suitability of the open innovation model for the ethical system of human resource management in the petrochemical industry.
Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and exploratory based on the method. In the qualitative part, 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted with academic professors specializing in human resources and experience and senior managers of the country's petrochemical industry, and in the quantitative part, 412 people from the research community, which included middle and senior managers of the petrochemical industry, were selected as samples. The sampling method was purposeful in the qualitative part and random in the quantitative part. The tools were the qualitative part of the interview and the quantitative part of the questionnaire. Qualitative data analysis was done with database method and open, personal and selective coding in MAXQDA 2020 software and quantitative data was evaluated with confirmatory factor analysis and SPSS 26 and Smart PLS 3 software.
Results: The findings of the research showed that: a total of 215 open codes were identified in the form of 83 categories for open innovation, which were categorized in the form of factors, contexts, interventions, solutions and messages. On the other hand, the examination of the fit of the open innovation model for the ethical-system of human resources management showed that the designed model was of good and structural fit.
Conclusion: The results of this research can be used to develop activities related to open innovation technology and development of right-oriented human resource management to improve the country's position in the petrochemical industry.