Strategic HRM

By Vandana Dhawan


Strategic human resource management (SHRM) is a process of combining human resource with strategic goals and objectives of an organization to achieve its business goals by streamlining processes related to human resource. The main goal of strategic human resource management is assessing people as a company resource and using it to improve company business processes. Generally, these assessments and investments are done on an individual level and collective levels. Through strategic human resource management, companies get the ability to manage their people effectively.

There are some special characteristics in strategic human resource management. Some of those characteristics are as follows.

* It brings all employees under one rule while using them to achieve business objectives and goals.

* It introduces compensation strategies to encourage the workers.

* It improves skills by identifying employee weaknesses and lack of confidence. Suitable training and development procedures are used to train people.

* Continues performance improvements are done through SHRM.

* That utilizes proper strategies to satisfy employee, as well as organization to establish powerful relationships among staff, as well as the supervision.

* It develops personal attitudes of employees and uses them for businesses development.

Strategic human resource management provides several benefits regarding organization development. Some advantages are:

The main benefit behind SHRM is optimizing company functions through human resources and accomplishing professional goals in a successful manner.

It also develops organization HR functions like online recruiting and selection, training and development, performance analysis and reward management by aiming organization targets and objectives.

It greatly focuses on employee welfare and motivates workers for better productivity. Then, people will feel more confident and will work for the company with loyalty and good work ethics.

SHRM produces happy workers. It helps to keep skilled workers in the organization. When the staff consists with experienced people, companies can save lots of cash they spend on recruiting, training and development, as well as performance assessments.

When applying strategic planning, company can face to any circumstances with organized manner. Workers abilities and capabilities can be recognized properly, and can allocate people for appropriate roles without putting things off and money on training and development.

HR people really know the importance of SHRM than before. Here are some main reasons behind the popularity of SHRM.

* Globalizations

* Market competition

* Technological innovations

* New managerial concepts

* Economic changes

* Cross-cultural matters

SHRM is a successful solution to some common issues faced by human resource management. It guarantees the success of business plans through mutually beneficial employee relationships.




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