Strategic Human Resource Management: An Literature Review

SHR is transformational, consultatively oriented, and views the organization in terms of the big picture. SHR is concerned with the contributions HR strategies make to organizational effectiveness, and how these contributions are accomplished. SHR involves designing and implementing a set of internally consistent policies and practices to ensure that an organization's human capital, that is their employees' collective knowledge, skills, and abilities, contributes to overall business objectives.

Conclusion

These three articles, from three different decades, are premised on the supposition that the primary role of HRM is to assist the organization in achieving its objectives. Though the role the HR department plays in attaining these goals is described in the context of the decade in which the article was written, they all assert the HR must play a more active role in strategic planning. The fact is that strategy is rarely developed without the consideration of human capital. Perhaps more importantly, no strategic plan is successful without the successful recruitment, deployment, development and management of human capital. It is, and always has been, imperative that HR has a seat at the table during the strategic planning process.References

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