This study examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers' evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries. Survey results indicated that higher involvement of HR in organizational strategy was strongly related to perceptions of HR effectiveness, and that...

The final goal of strategic management is to implement strategic plans, Therefore the alignment between corporate strategy and functional strategy is considerable. This study investigates the degree of alignment between HR strategy and corporate strategy of the national gas company. Data collection was conducted by questionnaire by 51 questions. The content validity of questionnaire was assesse...

focus of the strategic human resource management is presenting a model of strategies in the hr field to enable the organization achieve its strategic objectives. the main purpose of this study is providing a systematic and fairly standard framework for developing hr strategies. in order to show the applicability of the proposed framework, hr strategies in an oil industry company were developed....

Abstract Past research suggests that most culture change efforts proceed with limited attention to the pluralistic nature of contemporary organizations. We argue that the relationship between organization subcultures and the implementation of new HR strategies into HR practice has not been adequately explored because of the lack of a comprehensive framework for de®ning and integrating culture c...

While taking its cue from studies of high-performance work systems in manufacturing, this article examines theory and research on the potential for HR advantage in the service sector, building directly on recent studies of market segmentation and HR strategy in the sector. The article uses these studies, along with strategic management theory, to put forward a new typology of market characteris...