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.

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