What is Strategic Human Resource Management?

Описание: Every company’s human resource management policies and activities should make sense in terms of the firm’s strategic aims. Strategic human resource management means formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic aims.

The basic idea of strategic human resource management is this: In formulating policies, the manager should formulate policies that produce the employee skills and behaviors that the company needs to achieve its strategic goals. The HR strategy is dynamic, not static. In other words, the manager should determine where each HR activity (recruiting, and so on) is now, and where it should be in order to support the employer’s strategic aims.

The key to success is to think through how the manager is going to transform the various HR activities so that they align with and support the company’s strategic priorities. First, the manager formulates strategic plans and goals. Next, they ask, “What employee skills and behaviors will we need to achieve these plans and goals?” And finally, “Specifically what recruitment, selection, training, and other HR policies and practices should we put in place so as to produce the required employee skills and behaviors?” Managers often refer to their specific HR policies and practices as human resource strategies.