GB520: Strategic Human Resources Management Unit 1 Strategic Management is defined by the Business Dictionary as “the systematic analysis of the factors associated with customers and competitors (the external environment) to provide the basis for maintaining optimum management practices. The objective of strategic management is to achieve better alignment of corporate policies and strategic priorities” (Business Dictionary). Strategic management is ideas that can get a strategic advantage for
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Strategic Management: Theory and Case Study By Tunchalong Rungwitoo May 2012 ii Table of Content Table of Content.................................................................................................................ii Table of Table................................................................................................................... iii Table of Figure ..........................................................................................................
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Summary Strategic Management PART A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS Lesson 1 Strategic Schools of Thought and Strategic Discourse Strategy is the long-term direction of an organisation. Strategy and marketing are alike but they have different purposes. The importance of a long-term perspective on strategy is emphasised by the three horizons framework. It suggest that every organisation should think of itself as comprising three types of business or activity‚ defined by their horizons in terms of years
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Competitive resources should follow the VRIN criteria which defines a firm is deemed to have competitive advantage when it creates more economic value than its competitor (Peteraf and Barney‚ 2003). Suitability is where in the external environment‚ candidates must first determine whether strategic choices are suitable ad compatible (Wu‚ 2010). Figure 1 Valuable There are three reasons which makes this machine a competitive advantage which is it is able to save time‚ save resources and save
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4 MANAGEMENT DECISION 32‚2 Has today’s dominant marketing mix paradigm become a strait-jacket? A relationship building and management approach may be the answer. From Marketing Mix to Relationship Marketing: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Marketing Christian Grönroos Management Decision‚ Vol. 32 No. 2‚ 1994‚ pp. 4-20 © MCB University Press Limited‚ 0025-1747 The marketing mix management paradigm has dominated marketing thought‚ research and practice since it was introduced
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APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Strategy is a plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose or objective‚ or pattern of consistent behavior over time. On the organizational level we can refer to a strategy as a fundamental way in which the organization does things. Strategic human resource management is therefore the approaches to making decisions on the intentions and plans of the organization through policies‚ plans and practices. These concern employee relations‚ employee
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Strategic planning is an organization ’s process of defining its strategy‚ or direction‚ and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. In order to determine the direction of the organization‚ it is necessary to understand its current position and the possible avenues through which it can pursue a particular course of action. Generally‚ strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions: “What do we do?”‚ “For whom do we do it?”‚ and “How do we excel?”. In
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Introduction: In simplistic terms‚ "Human Resource Management" can be defined as an approach to the management of people‚ based on three basic principles. First‚ it is the effective management of the most important assets of an organization‚ i.e. Human Resources‚ this effective management is the key to its success. This success is dependent on the close linking of the personnel policies and procedures of the enterprise‚ and if they make a contribution to the achievements of corporate goals and objectives
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Formulating and implementing HR Strategies There is typically no single HR strategy in a firm‚ although research conducted showed that a number of the firms we contacted did have an overall strategic approach within which there were specific HR strategies Business strategy maybe an important influence on HR strategy but it is only one of the several factors and the relationship is not unilinear. Implicit in the mix of factors that influence the shape of HR strategies is a set of historical
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SPACE Matrix Strategic Management Method The SPACE matrix is a management tool used to analyze a company. It is used to determine what type of a strategy a company should undertake. The Strategic Position & ACtion Evaluation matrix or short a SPACE matrix is a strategic management tool that focuses on strategy formulation especially as related to the competitive position of an organization. The SPACE matrix can be used as a basis for other analyses‚ such as the SWOT analysis‚ BCG matrix model
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