What is SHRM?

As mentioned earlier, Human Resources Management plays an important role for the success of an organization. Human Resource Management has more roles than just doing administrative work such as recording employee’s presence and absence. 

The role of Human Resource Management has improved significantly that it now has a strategic function, which then created new subject called Strategic Human Resource Management.

What is Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)? It is the process of linking the human resource function with the strategic objectives of the organization in order to improve performance. It aligns your human resource function to your core business objectives. Moreover it involves more than just the administration of human resource programs or activities.  It is concerned with the “people” factor as a source of competitive advantage.

HR as a Strategic Partner

The role of people is so fundamental in organization’s competitive advantage. Considering SHRM as just a function of the HR Department is not a good idea. The role is enormously important that cannot be handled in just one department named Hr Department. SHRM must involve all top leaders, executives, managers.

Some organizations have already proved that those who value their employees are more profitable/successful in reaching their targets. Research shows that successful organizations have several things in common, such as providing employment security, engaging in selective hiring, using self-managed teams, being decentralized, paying well, training employees, reducing status differences, and sharing information.