Strategic human resource management: A role of the human resource manager in the process of strategy formation

Strategic human resource management aims at integrating human resource management in organizational strategy. The article analyzes some of the approaches as described in current literature on strategic human resource management. It is concluded that human resource managers are still confronted with problems in linking human resource management and corporate strategy. To overcome some of these problems for human resource managers an alternative concept of strategy is introduced. Possibilities for strategic human resource management and implications for the human resource manager, in using this alternative concept are sketched out.