Strategic Human Resource Management: A Buzzword in the Management World
Strategic human resource management has been a buzzword in the management world. Intellectuals, management thinkers, and professionals have been discussing this approach for a long time. A lot has been written and spoken, and on paper, it looks easy.
Challenges of Being a Strategic Partner
Discharging the role of a strategic partner in business by any HR professional is not as easy as normally understood. Understanding the reality of Indian business and its functioning style, it would not be out of place to mention that many HR departments are not even considered relevant and necessary for the purpose of sharing business strategies by persons sitting at the helm of affairs.
Despite all these barriers and challenges, HR professionals can't keep quiet and allow their function to remain on the margins. After all, at the end of the day, any business organization looks for financial success, and HR strategy is one of the means to attain this. Strategic HRM is not going to disappear. Many large organizations have implemented this concept and are enjoying the fruits of people effectiveness and productivity.
Aligning Business Strategies with HR Interventions
Strategic HRM is all about aligning business strategies and objectives with HR strategic interventions at each level so that HR helps to achieve the business plan through people. As the business world becomes more complex and challenging, HR professionals have no other alternative but to adopt a strategic approach in their function to become a partner in the success story of the business. The essence of HRM is that organizations derive their strategy from employees instead of imposing a strategy upon them.
The Real Challenge for HR
The real challenge lies before HR to translate and help line managers understand the business strategy and involve grassroots employees so that all own the objectives and strategic path. HR also has to grow in multiple dimensions to devise the HR strategy concerning recruitment, deployment, motivation, engagement, and retention of human resources.
The BM November-11 issue cover feature discusses various aspects of strategic HRM through articles by renowned management scholars and eminent HR practitioners who have simplified this subject for understanding and implementation at the organizational level.
Regards,
Anil Kaushik
Chief Editor, Business Manager-HR magazine
B-138, Ambedkar Nagar, Alwar-301001 (Raj.)
[Phone Number Removed For Privacy Reasons]
http://www.businessmanager.co.in
Strategic human resource management has been a buzzword in the management world. Intellectuals, management thinkers, and professionals have been discussing this approach for a long time. A lot has been written and spoken, and on paper, it looks easy.
Challenges of Being a Strategic Partner
Discharging the role of a strategic partner in business by any HR professional is not as easy as normally understood. Understanding the reality of Indian business and its functioning style, it would not be out of place to mention that many HR departments are not even considered relevant and necessary for the purpose of sharing business strategies by persons sitting at the helm of affairs.
Despite all these barriers and challenges, HR professionals can't keep quiet and allow their function to remain on the margins. After all, at the end of the day, any business organization looks for financial success, and HR strategy is one of the means to attain this. Strategic HRM is not going to disappear. Many large organizations have implemented this concept and are enjoying the fruits of people effectiveness and productivity.
Aligning Business Strategies with HR Interventions
Strategic HRM is all about aligning business strategies and objectives with HR strategic interventions at each level so that HR helps to achieve the business plan through people. As the business world becomes more complex and challenging, HR professionals have no other alternative but to adopt a strategic approach in their function to become a partner in the success story of the business. The essence of HRM is that organizations derive their strategy from employees instead of imposing a strategy upon them.
The Real Challenge for HR
The real challenge lies before HR to translate and help line managers understand the business strategy and involve grassroots employees so that all own the objectives and strategic path. HR also has to grow in multiple dimensions to devise the HR strategy concerning recruitment, deployment, motivation, engagement, and retention of human resources.
The BM November-11 issue cover feature discusses various aspects of strategic HRM through articles by renowned management scholars and eminent HR practitioners who have simplified this subject for understanding and implementation at the organizational level.
Regards,
Anil Kaushik
Chief Editor, Business Manager-HR magazine
B-138, Ambedkar Nagar, Alwar-301001 (Raj.)
[Phone Number Removed For Privacy Reasons]
http://www.businessmanager.co.in
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