Linking Individual Performance To Business Strategy

This document describes research conducted with seven large UK companies to understand how business strategies are translated through human resource strategies and processes into individual and organizational performance. The researchers created a map of the linkage between business strategy and individual performance through organizational capabilities like vertical, horizontal, and temporal linkage of people processes. The strength of linkage between people processes and business strategy varied across companies and processes. A key finding was that temporal linkage, which addresses how strategies transform to meet future needs, is particularly important given the long time cycles of people resources.