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Strategic HRM in action
This chapter contains illustrations of strategic HRM in action under the
following headings:
l formulating HR strategy;
l the content of HR strategies;
l corporate issues;
l achieving integration;
l summary of the most characteristic features of strategic HRM in action.
FORMULATING HR STRATEGY
Taking into account Tyson and Witcher’s (1994) point that you can only
study HR strategy in the context of business strategies, the processes of
formulating both business and HR strategies in a number of organizations
are described below.
ABC Distribution
ABC Distribution distributes food products, mainly to major retailers. The
critical success factors for the organization as spelt out by its managing
director and the finance director are its ability to meet its profit targets and
to grow the business substantially on a consistent basis by developing a
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