Strategic Management of Human Resources

Strategic Management of Human Resource Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM ) is one of the latest branches of Human Resources (HR . This has been developed with the realization of the fact that the human resource of the organization can help the organization develop competitive strategy over other competitors . SHRM can be defined as the linking of human resources with the key goals and strategic direction of the organization . This is done to improve the business performance and make the workers an integral part of the organization and not only a resource used to

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One of the major features of SHRM is that there is an unambiguous and a clearly defined linkage between the overall organizational strategic aims , practices , organizational environment and the human resource policy . In the past , the top level HR personnel have remarked on the difficulty they have had coordinating with the top management . HR used to be consulted after the important decisions had been made and the strategic direction set rather than being involved in planning from the beginning . Considering the invaluable perspective HR has on how decisions will impact agency resource , the HR personnel have been complaining that they are never involved in the planning process in early phases In addition to strategic planning , annual performance plans are also developed by the organizations which reviews what the organization will accomplish in that year . These plans are more operational in nature than the strategic plans and therefore contain more detailed plan...