As previously discussed, strategic human resource management is defined as “the
pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable an
organization to achieve its goals” Wright and McMahan (1992:298). The definition includes first the vertical linkage of human resource management practices with the strategic management process of the organization (Wright & McMahan, 1992). Secondly, the horizontal linkage emphasizes the coordination among the various human resource management practices (Wright & McMahan, 1992). Consequently, strategic human resource management is concerned with human resource practices, the human capital pool, the required human resource behaviors, and the effectiveness of these based on business strategy (Wright & McMahan, 1992). The conceptual model (see figure 1) proposed by Wright and McMahan (1992) depicts a variety of relationships that would occur within a strategic human resource management framework. The links from the