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A 16 page paper using empirical evidence to assess to what extent UK companies are using a strategic approach to human resources management (HRM). Those organizations striving to adopt a strategic approach to HRM should encourage HR personnel to examine corporate strategy for the purpose of determining the skill needs that the organization will require in the near- and long term. HRM then should set about arranging ongoing training so that when the “future” arrives, the organization is quite ready to receive it. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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16 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShrUKstrat.rtf
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Strategic planning is the pre-implementation component of the process of strategic management that is so necessary to todays organizations. Competition in business has never been more intense, and the
level of intensity only increases. Time has shortened as the world has shrunk in size, virtually eliminating any luxury of misstep that may have existed in the past.
In todays business environment, it is necessary to identify opportunities, plan how to best take advantage of them and then implement those plans. The purpose here is to assess
the degree to which firms in the United Kingdom employ a strategic process in their human resource function. The Strategic Approach to HR
The strategic management process leads the organization through "development, modification or change in the organizations strategies" (Coulter, 2002; p. 9). The process involves situation analysis, strategy formulation, strategy implementation
and finally, strategy evaluation (Coulter, 2002). Strategic planning is that part of the process that includes aspects of both strategy formulation and implementation. In order for the process
to be able to make the leap from office discussion of strategic planning to reality by the time the future arrives, HR needs to have a sufficient amount of lead
time to develop programs and implement them. One method of determining what strategic planning is, is to delineate what it is not.
It may involve operational effectiveness planning, long-range planning and other forms of planning in its implementation phase, but it is not in itself any one of these other forms.
Operational effectiveness planning entails seeking to become more efficient in operations, most often with the joint goals of increasing quality while concurrently reducing expenses.
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