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Business Strategy & HRM
Strategy
& HRM
Corporate strategy
The direction and scope of an
organisation over the long term, which
achieves competitive advantage for
the organisation through its
configuration of resources within a
changing environment and to fulfil
stake holder expectations
Johnsons and Scholes
Whittingtons topology of
strategy Processes
Deliberate
Classical
Systemic
Outcomes
Profit Maximising
Pluralistic
Evolutionary
Processual
Emergent
Classical
Strategy portrayed as a
rational process of deliberate
calculation and analysis,
undertaken by senior
managers
Evolutionary
Strategy seen as a product of
market forces in which the
most efficient and productive
organisations win through
Processual
Strategies tend to evolve
through the process of
discussion and disagreements
that involves managers at
different levels in an
organisation
Systemic
Strategy is shaped by the
social system in which it is
embedded factors such as
class, gender and legal
environment and choices are
influenced by interests of a
broader society
Linking
MATURITY
GROWTH
START UP
DECLINE
START UP
MATURITY
DECLINE
Competitive advantage
model
PRACTICES
Resources
STRATEGY
Cost reduction
Learning &
development
Quality
enhancement
Reward
management
Innovation
HR function
HRM& RBV
Potential
Finally
Competitively advantageous equipment
can be designed and continuously
improved only if the workforce is highly
skilled.
Continuous education is attractive only if
employees are willing to learn.
Sending workers throughout the world to
garner ideas is cost effective only if they
are empowered to apply what they have
learned to organisational problems.