Human Resource Management and Corporate Strategy

Author(s):  
Wolfgang H. Staehle
1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
R. Abratt

The involvement of personnel executives in the strategic planning of the enterprise is a controversial issue. Personnel has been considered a staff function which deals with day-to-day administration issues and as such has often been regarded with some contempt by the top management team. Concomitantly many firms are viewing the personnel function in an entirely different light; it now participates in the decision making of the company. The objectives of this paper are two fold: firstly to find a link between corporate strategy and human resource management and secondly, to find out whether personnel managers of quoted South African companies participate in corporate strategy formation. The company comprises of a number of varying dimensions and systems. Every organizational dimension and system must be consistent, not only with the strategy, but also with every other organizational dimension and system. The personnel department is often excluded from the corporate planning process. This exclusion represents a high cost to the total system due to less than optimum usage of an organization's human resources. This paper discusses the need for planning by management with particular reference to manpower planning in relation to corporate planning.


1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold L. Angle ◽  
Charles C. Manz ◽  
Andrew H. van de Ven

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 621-626
Author(s):  
Arthur K. Fischer

This Human Resource Management case deals with problems and issues of setting up an international subsidiary which aligns with corporate strategy. The discussion concerns how such a case can be used to exhibit the alignment between HRM and international strategy.


2021 ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Magdalena Stefańska

The concept of sustainability is referred to the basic functions of human resources (HR)— recruitment, motivation, assessment and control. They should embrace sustainability, not just for organisational effectiveness and long-term economic benefits, but also for ethical reasons. Owing to SHRM, the awareness and behaviour of the whole organisation may strongly express SD goals in planning and implementing the whole corporate strategy. Frequently, the term ‘sustainable practices’ in SHRM is congruent with CSR. The main goal of the chapter is to explain how Sustainable Development Goals can be implemented in human resource management (HRM) and translated into sustainable human resource management (SHRM).


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