The document discusses strategic human resource management (SHRM). It outlines some key features of SHRM, including explicitly linking HR policies to organizational objectives. It also discusses trends in SHRM, such as dealing with employee participation and globalization issues. SHRM aims to align human resources with an organization's long-term strategic goals to improve business performance.

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KEY FEATURES IN SHRMKEY FEATURES IN SHRM

2. CONTENTSCONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Key Features in SHRM
3. Trends in SHRM
4. Summary& Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• Organization, particularly
business entities, must succeed
financially if they are survive.
• This is the reason why business
or strategic plans are prepared

4. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• This is one of the simple ways in
understanding the important
factors related to Strategic
Human Resources Management
(SHRM)

5. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• Your organization, too, has its
strategic or business plan.
• The only thing left is to make it a
reality

6. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• As such, Strategic HRM can be
summarized as the linking of human
resources with strategic goals and
objectives to improve business
performance

7. QUESTIONS

8. KEY FEATURES IN SHRMKEY FEATURES IN SHRM
• The key features of SHRM are:
• 1. There is an explicit linkage between
HR policy & practices and overall
organizational strategic aims and
organizational objectrives

9. KEY FEATURES IN SHRMKEY FEATURES IN SHRM
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2. There is some organizing
scheme linking individual HR
interventions so that they are
mutually supportive

10. KEY FEATURES IN SHRMKEY FEATURES IN SHRM
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3. Much of the responsibility for
the management of human
resources is devolved down the
line

11. QUESTIONS

12. TRENDS IN SHRMTRENDS IN SHRM
• HRM professionals are
increasingly faced with the issues
of employee participation, human
resource flow, performance
management, reward system, and
high commitment work system in
the context of globalization

13. TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)
• Older solution and recipes that
worked in the local environment do
not work in an international context
• Cross cultural issues or cultural
sensitivity play a major role in the
workplace

14. TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)
• These are some of the major
issues that HR professionals and
top management involved in
SHRM are grappling with in the
first decade of the 21st
century
• What are these major issues?

15. TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)
1. Internationalization of market
integration
2. Increased competition, which
may not be local or even national
through free market ideology

16. TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)
4. Rapid technological change
4. New concepts of line and
general management
5. Constantly changing ownership
& resultant corporate climates

17. TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)TRENDS IN SHRM (CONT)
6. Cross cultural issues
7. The economic gravity shifting
from ‘developed’ to ‘developing’
nations

18. SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSUMMARY & CONCLUSION
Some commentators see SHRM as
being integrated with strategy
formulation on how human
resources management can help
accomplish the business plans for
the organization

19. SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSUMMARY & CONCLUSION
• In sum, SHRM is concerned with
long term goals in order to
improve business performance

20. SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSUMMARY & CONCLUSION
• SHRM also reflects some of the
main contemporary challenges
faced by HRM: Aligning HR with
core business strategy,
demographic trends on
employment & the labour market,
integrating soft skills in HRD and
finally Knowledge Management

21. QUESTIONS

22. TUTORIAL QUESTIONSTUTORIAL QUESTIONS
1. Identify & discuss in detail the Key
features in SHRM?
2. Trends in SHRM suggest that older
solutions & recipes that worked in the
local environment do not work in an
international context. Discuss with
examples.

23. TUTORIAL QUESTIONSTUTORIAL QUESTIONS
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3. Explain what you mean by cross cultural
issues or cultural sensitivity?
4. One of the contemporary challenges for
HR professionals is aligning HR
policies/practices with core business
strategy. Discuss

24. REFERENCESREFERENCES
• Armstrong, M and Baron, A (2002)
Strategic Human Resources
Management: The key to improved
business performance, development
practice. London; Chartered Institute of
personal and development

25. REFERENCESREFERENCES
• Schuler, R.S. Strategic Human Resources
Management, Linking people with the
needs of the business. Organizational
dynamics. Vol 21, no 1, pp18-32

26. REFERENCESREFERENCES
• Wright, P.M. and Mcmahan, G.C. (1992)
Theoretical perspective for SHRM. Journal
of Management, March., pp 215-247

27. QUESTIONS