Strategic Planning and Human Resources:
Linking the Processes
• HR managers ‘marry’ human resource planning to the
strategic planning of organizations as a whole
• At fundamental level, human resource planning relates to
strategic planning in two main ways
Strategy formulation - whether a firm has the types and
numbers of people available to pursue a given strategy
Strategy implementation – resource allocation decisions
to implement the strategy formulated including decisions
related to firm’s structure, processes, and human capital
Strategic Planning and Human Resources:
Linking the Processes
• Many companies have tried to combine these two aspects of
strategic management.
• For example, 3M engages in elaborate workforce planning
and employee utilization to expand into market worldwide.
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