Strategic human resource management and organisational competitiveness: the importance of fit and flexibility Online publication date: Mon, 17-Jan-2005
by Patricia Ordonez de Pablos
International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (IJHRDM), Vol. 5, No. 1, 2005
Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to analyse how strategic human resource management can create a sustainable competitive advantage if it achieves two essential goals: organisational flexibility (both resource and coordination flexibility) and fit (both external and internal). The achievement of these goals at the same time allows the origination of a dynamic fit, able to create a firm that renews itself, and at the same time, it is given a fast response ability to environmental requests. With the aim of testing these matters, the work is organised in three main sections.
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