Strategic Human Resource Management

Section Two

Requirements for Strategic Human
Resource Managers

Human resource executives sometimes lack the qualifications to
take an important role in the company’s strategic planning
processes. Requirements for those who can operate in strategic
human resource management go beyond the requirements of
functional competence. Research into the role characteristics
reveals the following personal qualifications for such
involvement:

(a) Information management skills—statistics,

analysis, and research; (b) Planning skills—the

knowledge of planning and planning

methodologies plus statistics techniques;

(c) Management skills—skills in the various

business functions and environmental analysis;

(d) Integration skills—competency at managing

organizational interfaces, and skill in assessing

the organization plus setting priorities; and

(e) Change management skills—the skills of

anticipating the future, facilitating changes, and

developing organizational activities.^110