Strategic Human Resource Management

Section Two

Table 2-3
Benefits of Integrating Human Resource Planning with Strategic
Planning

1. Generates more diverse solutions to complex
   organizational problems


2. Ensures consideration of human resources in
   organizational goal-setting processes


3. Ensures consideration of human resources in
   assessment of organization’s abilities to accomplish
   goals and implement strategies


4. Reciprocal integration prevents strategy formulation
   based on personnel rigidities/preferences


5. Facilitates concurrent consideration of strategic plans
   and managerial succession

Sources: Adapted form Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall and Mark L. Lengnick-Hall. “Strategic
Human Resources Management: A Review of the Literature and a Proposed Typology,”
Academy of Management Review.