None the less, the above difficulties notwithstanding, it is possible to say something about the underlying ideas that have caught people’s imagination. Moreover, statements have to be made because those managers who seek to mobilize others (including other managers) need to be able articulate the big idea. It has been noted that the idea of strategic human resource management can be regarded as a ‘discursive formation’ and that when exponents talk about SHRM, they are broadly referring to an understood set of interconnecting propositions. Within the confines of this approach, SHRM has been defined as follows: