Aligning strategic human resource management and person–environment fit

Strategic human resource management addresses the need to create vertical linkages of human resource management (HRM) attributes with corporate strategy as well as horizontal linkages that integrate practices among HRM functions. Most models commonly focus on either vertical or horizontal linkages. This paper utilizes three categories of person–environment fit to create both vertical and horizontal linkages. Based on a strategic contingency framework, it demonstrates how person–environment fit relates to organizational competencies that supports corporate strategy. Furthermore, it demonstrates how person–environment fit can be used to promote internal alignment of HRM practices. Implications of this approach to strategic human resource management are then discussed.     

基于战略的包容性人力资源管理系统分析

初步探讨并概括了基于战略的包容性人力资源管理的内涵和特征,在选择、确定和分析基于战略的包容性人力资源管理系统要素的基础上,应用系统工程理论方法,建立了包容性人力资源管理系统结构解释模型,进而对系统递阶层次结构进行了分析与总结,得出了一些关于包容性人力资源管理系统运行的初步结论.     

国有建筑企业战略人力资源管理系统构建研究

简要介绍了国有建筑企业人力资源管理存在的问题,并引入了战略人力资源管理理论。在基于企业发展战略的角度,构建了国有建筑企业战略人力资源管理系统模型。重点介绍了国有建筑企业战略人力资源管理系统的四个子系统以及它们之间的内在关系。     

企业人力资源管理外包影响因素分析

发展核心业务,非核心业务采用外包(Outsourcing)策略,以提升企业核心竞争力,在现代企业得到普遍采用。人力资源管理作为企业战略及职能范畴的外包,近年来亦引起国内企业的高度关注并得到应用。文章旨在通过对人力资源外包的基础理论探讨,归纳影响人力资源外包决策的因素。     

A strategic contingency approach to expatriate assignment management

This exploratory study examines how expatriate management practices differ with respect to three international management strategies (local, centralised or global) in 27 mature multinational corporations. In particular, this study examines the categories of expatriate assignments, the strategic integration of expatriate assignments into leadership development and the types of human resource practices that firms utilise to manage expatriates. Results indicate that organisations differentially assign expatriates based on the firm's respective international management strategy. Firms with a global management strategy made greater use of developmental expatriates, had a greater number of senior managers with expatriate experience and had a stronger focus on leadership development through expatriation. Firms did not differ with respect to their use of expatriate management practices based on their international management strategy.     

A Critique and A Proposed Reformulation of Strategic Human Resource Management

Ken Kamoche, who lectures in human resource management at Birmingham Business School, argues that flaws in the assumptions underlying our understanding of ‘strategy’ are encouraging an inappropriate conception of strategic human resource management (SHRM). the notion of strategy which emanates from orthodox economic theory ensures that SHRM is subservient to a dominant ‘organisational imperative’. This process is reinforced by key socio-political factors which are diminishing the significance of the ‘human’ component of SHRM. He goes on to suggest how SHRM might be reconstituted to be a more useful concept     

Human resource strategy: a process for managing the contribution of HRM to organizational performance

This paper describes human resource strategy as a management process, as part of emergent strategy formation. A framework is proposed to describe the different levels of analysis, societal, organisational and individual, which managers seek to integrate so that the meanings organisation members bring to their work are managed. The consequences of taking this approach as opposed to the rational view of HR strategy are outlined and the benefits of a processual, interpretationist perspective to the study of strategy for example by studying symbols and the processes of meaning construction are discussed.     

Collaboration at work: An integrative multilevel conceptualization

The term collaboration has been used throughout a variety of research disciplines to describe multiple types of interaction; yet, a unified, comprehensive definition of the construct remains elusive. This lack of clarity regarding the distinctions and commonalities between collaboration and other interaction concepts has resulted in conceptual confusion that affects practice and research in human resource management. Practitioners see collaboration as more of a buzzword than as an effective human resource strategy. Previous theory development efforts have not yet taken a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach. This has resulted in failure to integrate key themes across disciplines into an overall view of collaboration, which is a commonplace practice in business and military sectors alike. This paper describes a multidisciplinary conceptualization of collaboration and discusses the implications of this integrative theory to human resource management and strategy development as well as future research efforts.     

Human resource management and business strategy links: an empirical study

Over recent years there has been an increasing interest in the field of human resource management. Currently, the literature encourages the consideration of human resources as strategic factors, not only because they play important role in strategy implementation, also because they are beginning to be reckoned as sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Relationships between human resource management and strategy have been studied from different perspectives. This article focuses on one of them. It examines matches between human resource practices and types of business strategy. The question addressed is: do human resource management practices vary with business strategy? To answer this question, empirical research was developed. Using data collected from 200 Spanish companies, this paper demonstrates significant associations between some human resource practices and business strategy in companies. Reported results support some of the previously established relationships. Implications for future research are discussed.     

Strategy, human resource management and performance: Sharpening line of sight

This paper builds on previous theory and research on strategy and human resource management to identify important linkages between the firm's strategy, its human resources, and performance outcomes. First, we review the relevant literature focusing in particular on the role of human resources in creating competitive advantage. We then present a multi-level model illustrating how human resource management practices can effectively align organizational, group and individual factors with the organization's strategy. We redefine line of sight as the alignment of organizational capabilities and culture, group competencies and norms, and individual KSAs, motivation and opportunity with one another and with the organization's strategy. Further, we propose that such alignment contributes to the creation of human capital and social capital, both of which are necessary to achieve and sustain superior performance. We conclude the paper with some implications for future research and practice.     

面向知识创新的民营科技企业人力资源管理研究

本文研究知识创新给民营科技企业人力资源管理带来的影响,分析适应知识创新需求的民营科技企业人力资源管理基本模式,提出相应的人力资源发展对策。     

An unsuitable job for a woman: a ‘native category’ approach to gender,diversity and cross-cultural management

This paper takes an ethnographic study of the recruitment of women at BMW MINI between 2003 and 2006 as the basis to explore the impact of the concepts of ‘native categories’ and ‘recontextualisation’ on diversity management and cross-cultural management. I consider how managers' and workers' subconsciously held cultural categories relating to gender and work affected efforts to increase the number of female line workers in the plant, and how these were further complicated by the recontextualisation of German native categories in a British context. In doing so, this paper will develop a better understanding of the way native categories affect management and international business, provide an addition to the literature on recontextualisation, by introducing the concept of ‘native categories’ to research exploring the effects of recontextualisation on cross-cultural knowledge transfer, international human resource management strategy and marketing, and, finally, develop some understanding of how diversity management initiatives can fail in practice.     

五大修炼成就优秀人力资源管理者

人力资源管理作为现代企业管理的核心和战略职能,越来越受到的企业管理者重视。要想较好地完成企业赋予的使命和责任,真正发挥人力资源管理在企业管理中的作用,为企业锻造一个卓越的员工团队,确保企业战略规划的有效实施和战略目标的根本实现,需要优秀的人力资源管理者作为支撑。文章从发展战略高度和实际需求出发,阐述了成为企业优秀人力资源管理者需要做好的五大修行练志,并提出了具体做法。     

Status inconsistency: an antecedent to bullying behaviour in groups

This paper draws on frameworks developed by the strategic international human resource management (HRM) literature to analyse human resource practices in foreign-invested enterprises in China and their affiliates. It argues that such strategies can be best understood in the context of global commodity chains. Drawing on data from a study of 27 China-based enterprises in two industries, garments and consumer electronics, it contests that strategy is a good determinant of HRM policies. Moreover, most of the enterprises are following cost reduction strategies but with certain quality levels, based on standardized mature products and production processes. Industry sector is also important, as is the institutional milieu of China.     

五大修炼成就优秀人力资源管理者

人力资源管理作为现代企业管理的核心和战略职能,越来越受到的企业管理者重视。要想较好地完成企业赋予的使命和责任,真正发挥人力资源管理在企业管理中的作用,为企业锻造一个卓越的员工团队,确保企业战略规划的有效实施和战略目标的根本实现,需要优秀的人力资源管理者作为支撑。文章从发展战略高度和实际需求出发,阐述了成为企业优秀人力资源管理者需要做好的五大修行练志,并提出了具体做法。     

Using human resource management to enhance competitiveness: Lessons from four excellent companies

Recent research has emphasized the strategic focus that human resource management must have in order for an organization to fully utilize its human resources in a competitive market. However, few empirical studies have been done to date regarding how human resource planning should be linked to strategy. An extensive in-depth study of four large, complex, and very successful companies supports the widespread belief that human resource management can be a powerful tool to enhance competitiveness when policies and practices are logically driven by a firm's strategy and by the key environmental factors it faces. This article describes that study and looks at how the areas of selection, appraisal, reward, and development are handled by these firms. Based on both the specific policies and the actual practices as perceived by middle managers (those that implement the policies), the article presents a contingency framework which offers guidelines as to how certain HRM practices should be implemented to gain competitive advantage.     

Managing transformational change: the role of human resource professionals

In the past decade human resource management issues featured prominently in debates over the competitiveness and human resource professionals were expected to ascend to positions of greater influence in corporate strategy making and implementation. Despite numerous calls for a paradigm shift towards a more ‘strategic’ focus for human resource management research, developments in both practice and research fell far short of expectations. Thus, the process of transforming human resource policy into a strategic asset for employees, individual firms or the American economy is not yet complete. The paper suggests that the ‘strategic’ human resource management models of the 1980s were too limited and reactive in character because they depended so heavily on the values, strategies and support of top executives and line managers. A model capable of achieving sustained and transformational change needs to incorporate more active roles of other stakeholders in the employment relationship, including government, employes and union representatives as well as line managers and top executives. The paper starts by reviewing the evidence on innovations in human resource management in the past decade and then outlines the implications of the change model for human resource management and industrial relations theory, policy and practice. Special emphasis is given to the role of human resource professionals as potential change agents or facilitators of the transformational process.     

Organizational environment and business strategy: Parallel versus conflicting influences on human resource strategy in the pharmaceutical industry

While much attention in recent years has been focused on the issue of human resource strategy, little research has been conducted on the degree to which the various forces helping to shape human resource strategy exert parallel or conflicting influences. In this article, business environment and strategy influences on corporate human resource strategies in the pharmaceutical industry are examined. In particular, data derived from corporate annual reports are used to generate a grounded theory of where, when, and why environmental influences on human resource strategy may be more or less consistent with business strategy influences across a number of human resource strategy dimensions.     

Leveraging HRM to enrich competitive intelligence

This exploratory investigation into the intersection of competitive intelligence (CI) and human resource management (HRM) begins by reviewing the concept of competitive intelligence which includes the acquisition, analysis, and dissemination of information. To do so, relevant theoretical perspectives emanating from several disciplines (including strategy, law, and human resource management) are reviewed. Then, a number of human resource management solutions that address the four barriers to strategic information diagnosis identified by Boettcher and Welge (1994) are presented. The effects on research and practice of unifying HRM and CI are also discussed. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

加强人力资源管理提高学校管理效率

高校人力资源的管理工作是学校管理的一项重要组成,如何提高学校对人力资源的管理和规划,提高学校的竞争水平,是摆在高校面前的一个难题。本文对人力资源的概念及其在高校管理工作的地位作了阐述分析,并论述了其存在的问题及原因,并针对这些问题提出了如何加强高校人力资源管理,提高学习管理效率的建议措施,期待转变高校人力资源的管理方式并进行创新,与国家实施人才强国战略同步,建设一支高素质的人才队伍,为我国的教育事业增砖添瓦。