STRATEGIC HUMAN

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
 What does it mean HRM?
• Organizations must develop functions to
adapt to their environment
• The management of personnel is one of
these functions
• The “cycle of personnel”

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 The “cycle of personnel”
 Planning
 Recruiting & Selection
 Career planning
 Appraisal
 Rewarding
 Performance
 Development & Training
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 What does it mean HRM?
• On the one hand, HRM is no more than a more
modern name for “personnel management”.
• On the other hand, the term is equally widely used
to denote a particular approach to the management
of people which is clearly distinct from the
“personnel management”. It also suggests a
distinctive philosophy towards carrying out
people-oriented organisational activities.

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HRM function has four key
objectives:
• Staffing objectives
• Performance objectives
• Change-management objectives
• Administration objectives

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 Personnel vs. HRM
Personnel management HRM
Time and planning Short term, reactive, “ad Long term, proactive,
perspective hoc”, marginal strategic, integrated
Psychological Compliance Commitment
contract
Control system External controls Self-control

Employee relations Pluralist, collective, low Unitarist, individual,

perpective trust high trust
Preferred structures Bureaucratic/mechanistic, Organic, devolved,
centralised, formal roles flexible roles
Roles Specialist/professional Integrated into line m.

Evaluation criteria Cost minimization Maximum utilisation 6

 HRM roles and objectives
Staffing ob. Change-management ob.

Performance ob. Administration ob.

HRM

Line managers HR generalists

Consultants HR specialists

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 Strategic HRM
• The linking of human resources with
strategic goals and objectives in order
to improve business performance and
develop organizational culture that
foster innovation and flexibility

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 Human Resource Strategy…
• The intention of the corporation
both explicit and covert, towards
the management of its employees,
expressed through philosophies,
policies and practices (Tyson)

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 Potential relationships between
organisational strategy and HR strategy:
Separation

Org. Str. HR Str.

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 Potential relationships between
organisational strategy and HR strategy:
Fit

Org. Str. HR Str.

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 Potential relationships between
organisational strategy and HR strategy:
Dialogue

Org. Str. HR Str.

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 Potential relationships between
organisational strategy and HR strategy:
Holistic

Org. Str. HR Str.

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 Potential relationships between
organisational strategy and HR strategy:
HR driven

Org. Str. HR Str.

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