Do Human Resource Departments Act as Strategic Partners? Strategic Human Capital Management Adoption by County Governments

Strategic human resource management

1. Explain the meaning of strategic management and give an overview of its conceptual framework. 2. Describe the three levels of strategy formulation and comment on the links between business strategy and human resource management. 3. Explain the two models of strategic HRM, the matching model and the resourcebased model. 4. Comment on the various strategic HRM themes of re-engineering, workpla...

Is strategic human resource management strategic? - The fit between strategy and strategic human resource management

Through an analysis of the relationship between human resource management (HRM) systems and strategy types, predictions are made about a simultaneous horizontal and vertical fit. In a conceptual model for strategic HRM the key argument is, that the fit between firm strategy and HRM strategy is determined by (matching hypothesis) task characteristics of the strategy type and internally, consiste...

Strategic Human Resource Management for Law Firms

Strategic Human Resource Management: Alternative Theoretical Frameworks

Critics have argued that the field of human resource management (HRM) lacks a coherent theoretical framework. This article attempts to further the theoretical development of SHRM through discussing six theoretical models (behavioral perspective, cybernetic models, agency/transaction cost theory, resource-based view of the firm, power/resource dependence models, and institutional theory) that ar...

Strategic Human Resource Management and Performance

The connection between human resources and performance in firms in the private sector is well documented. What is less clear is whether the move towards managerialism that has taken place within the Australian public sector during the last twenty years has brought with it some of the features of the relationships between Human Resource Management (HRM) and performance experienced within the pri...