Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Strategic HRM

By Vandana Dhawan


Combining strategic goals and objectives of an organization with its human resources is called strategic human resource management. It is also known as SHRM. SHRM is used to achieve business goals by reforming the processes of the human resource. The ultimate goal of strategic human resource management is considering organization's workforce as an asset to improve business processes. These assessments are done in two ways. It is individual and group levels. SHRM facilitates to manage employees effectively and drive all of them to one direction.

Strategic human resource management has some special features. Some of them are as follows.

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

* It motivates people by using performance based rewarding schemes.

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

* It regularly develops the abilities of staff members.

* Its strategic plans help companies to build strong and reliable relationships between lower level employees and the management.

* It helps to develop personal skills of staff members and employs them to develop the organization and its business processes.

There are many advantages behind strategic human resource management. Some of them are as follows.

The key advantage of strategic human resource management is; it develops human resource to fulfill business goals in an efficient way.

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 drastically focuses on employee happiness and inspires employees for better output. Subsequently, people will experience more confident and will work for the company with excellent 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 implementing strategic planning, any situation can be predicted and planned. Employee skills and abilities can be understood correctly and can assign people for appropriate positions without wasting time and money on training and development.

Many companies, HR professionals focus on SHRM than earlier. Here are some reasons behind the implementation of strategic human resource management.

* Globalizations

* Market competition

* Technological advancements

* New decision-making concepts

* Financial factors

* Cross-cultural issues

SHRM is a victorious solution to some common problems experienced by human resources management. It assures the success of strategic plans through mutually beneficial relationships.




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