Analysis of data relating to H5 found that there is a positive
relationship betweenhierarchical level of the Head of HRM and the practice
of Strategic Human ResourceManagement. This finding is matched with the
finding of Bhatnagar and Sharma (2004)that the hierarchical level was found
to be a significant background variable with regardto the practice of Strategic
Human Resource Management. Since this finding supportsthe theoretical
explanations, it is suggested that organizations should offer toplevelpositions
for Heads of Human Resource Management department in
order to have betterpractice of SHRM. It has been supported by the data that
in order to increase the practiceof Strategic Human Resource Management it
is needed to increase the hierarchical levelof the Head of the HRM. Head of
HRM is to be appointed as a member of the topmanagement team of the firm
for a serious practice of SHRM within the firm. Itnecessitates that the Head
of HRM is a member of the strategic planning team.
From the multivariate analysis, it was found that Competency,
Education, Age,Experience and Hierarchical level significantly and jointly
explain the variance ofpractice of SHRM. It indicates that these five
variables give a significant impact of thepractice of SHRM within a firm.
The implication of this finding is that it is important fora firm to consider
human resource manager-related factors such as competency,education,
experience, age and hierarchical level in order to improve the practice
ofSHRM. In fact, other variables not considered in this study should be the
variables thatwill account for the unexplained variance in the practice of
SHRM.