3) Attraction of experienced HR professionals from places outside of GE These HR professionals are recruited from other large multi-national organizations in similar industries and possess the human resource acumen and experience, but lack the GE cultural knowledge. In essence, the infusion of experienced HR professionals from other organizations into GE allows diverse ideas and perspectives to permeate the HR organization. The above-mentioned strategies (the HRLF, internal transfers, and external hires) employed by GE can be used to provide a standard guideline/model for other organizations in Thailand wishing to enhance the quality of their HR and business functions. From the above discussion, it can be conceptually argued that GE has to a certain extent successfully adopted a strategic approach to human
resource management by concentrating on the development and execution of two critical human resource strategies, namely human resource development and strategic recruitment of managerial employees. From this perspective, the importance of having a quality human resource organization to drive the future of business becomes logical. Successful development and execution of these three strategies implemented by GE mentioned earlier can definitely produce the types of diverse, high quality human resource organization that is needed to effectively operate in today s intensely competitive business environment. (Stockman, 1999 144-146)