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Employee resourcing strategy
Employee resourcing strategy is concerned with ensuring that the organi-
zation obtains and retains the people it needs and employs them efficiently. It
is a key part of the strategic human resource management process, which is
fundamentally about matching human resources to the strategic and opera-
tional needs of the organization and ensuring the full utilization of those
resources. It is concerned not only with obtaining and keeping the number
and quality of staff required but also with selecting and promoting people
who ‘fit’ the culture and the strategic requirements of the organization.
THE OBJECTIVE OF EMPLOYEE RESOURCING STRATEGY
The objective of employee resourcing strategy as expressed by Keep (1989) is
‘To obtain the right basic material in the form of a workforce endowed with
the appropriate qualities, skills, knowledge and potential for future training.
The selection and recruitment of workers best suited to meeting the needs of
the organization ought to form a core activity upon which most other HRM
policies geared towards development and motivation could be built.’
The concept that the strategic capability of a firm depends on its resource
capability in the shape of people (the resource-based view) provides the
rationale for resourcing strategy. The aim of this strategy is therefore to
ensure that a firm achieves competitive advantage by employing more
capable people than its rivals. These people will have a wider and deeper
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