Strategic human resource management
Understand how strategic HRM works, and its relationship with business strategy, human capital management and performance
Understand how strategic HRM works, and its relationship with business strategy, human capital management and performance
Strategic human resource management (strategic HRM) provides a framework linking people management and development practices to long-term business goals and outcomes. It focuses on longer-term resourcing issues and other HR strategies, such as reward or performance, determining how they are integrated into the overall business strategy.
This factsheet looks at how thinking on strategic HRM has developed and describes strategic HRM in relation to business strategy, human capital management and business performance.
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