Strategic Human Resource Management

Section Two

has also been recognition of contributions of human resource
management to company success in international endeavors.
Such success is more likely when international involvement is
rewarded and international business training is provided. It is
also more likely when managerial selection and promotion
criteria incorporate international expe-rience.^11 Nonetheless,
before such contributions can be made, a coherent human
resource strategy must be developed and linked to the
organization’s overall strategy.

„ THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

Strategic Concepts and Definitions

The term strategic human resource management has become a
widely used in the management literature. In general, the goal
of strategic human resource management is the effective
application of such resources to meet organizations’ strategic
requirements and objectives. When defining the term,
practitioners tend to emphasize its implementation role,^12 as
revealed in the following definitions:

Getting the strategy of the business implemented

effectively... getting everybody from the top of

the human organization to the bottom doing

things that make the business successful.”^13