Question

5. describe the relationship among an organization's purpose, mission, and top management team and how this relationship affects its human resource practices

Answer 1

More and more managers today are recognizing the important linkages that exist among strategy, operations, and human resource management. A strategic orientation to human resource management provides a useful and effective perspective on how to best create these linkages. Thus this chapter is devoted to the strategic human resource environment.

I.      The Competitive Environment for Human Resource Management

Figure 4.1 illustrates the framework used to describe strategic human resource management. The process starts with an understanding of the organization’s purpose, mission, and influence of the top management team, and ends with the human resource manager serving as a strategic partner to operating divisions of the organization. An organization must choose human resource practices that fit with its strategy and mission; the “best” practices for one firm may not be the best for another