Hypothesis 1: Competency of human resource manager of the firm
has a positiverelationship with practice of SHRM.
Education is the knowledge or training that a person has gained
through formal andsystematic study (Collins Birmingham University
International Language DatabaseEnglish Dictionary, 1987, p.450). For this
study purpose, education of human resourcemanager was defined as the
qualifications that head of HRM has secured
fromschool/college/universities/other institutes. According to Zupan and
Kase (2005), one ofthe reasons why HRM in general and Strategic HRM in
particular are not betterdeveloped, is poor education of HR managers. They
also reveal that less than half of HRmanagers have more than a high school
education and most received little or no HRtraining during their formal
education and not much thereafter. Due to this reason HRmanagers are rarely
involved in the process of formulating business strategy. Education iseither
significantly related to or is a strong predictor of practice of SHRM
(Fogarty,1994). Hence following hypothesis was formulated in this regard: