Chap 2: Strategic Human Resource Management Flashcards
Strategic Human Resource Mgmt (SHRM)
“the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable an organization to achieve its goals.”
Strategy Formulation
the strategic planning groups decide on a strategic direction by defining the company’s mission and goals, its external opportunities and threats, and its internal strengths and weaknesses.
Strategy Implementation
the organization follows through on the chosen strategy.
External Analysis
examining the organization’s operating environment to identify the strategic opportunities and threats.
Internal Analysis
attempts to identify the organization’s strengths and weaknesses. It focuses on the quantity and quality of resources available to the organization—financial, capital,
technological, and human resources.
Job Design
addresses what tasks should be grouped into a particular job.
Training
refers to a planned effort to facilitate the learning of job-related knowledge, skills, and behavior by employees.
Development
involves acquiring knowledge, skills, and behavior that improve employees’ ability to meet the challenges of a variety of existing jobs or jobs that do not yet exist.
Performance Management
used to ensure that employees’ activities and outcomes are
congruent with the organization’s objectives. It entails specifying those activities and outcomes that will result in the firm successfully implementing the strategy.
Role behaviors
are the behaviors required of an individual in his or her role as a jobholder in a social work environment.
Concentration Strategies
require that the company maintain the current skills that exist in the organization.
Internal Growth Strategies
present unique staffing problems. Growth requires that a company constantly hire, transfer, and promote individuals, and expansion into different markets may change the necessary skills that prospective employees must have.
