Toward a unifying framework for exploring fit and flexibility in strategic human resource management

Article Abstract:

In this article we present a framework for studying the concepts of fit and flexibility in the field of strategic human resource management (HRM), focusing on HRM practices, employee skills, and employee behaviors, and review past conceptual and empirical work within that framework. We present a model of strategic HRM and use this model to explore the concepts of fit and flexibility as they apply to strategic HRM. After applying the concepts of resource and coordination flexibility to strategic HRM, we discuss the implications of the framework for both the practice of and research on strategic HRM. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Models, Strategic planning (Business)

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The human resource architecture: toward a theory of human capital allocation and development

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A theoretical model of human resources is developed to analyze the most appropriate mode of investment in human capital. Its framework is called architecture because it has a set of fundamental parameters in which form and function inferences can be drawn. The model takes into account four employment modes. These are internal development, acquisition, contracting and alliance. The use of the model raises important issues regarding competitive advantage and identifying the human capital that will be its source.

Research, Competition (Economics), Economic aspects, Resource allocation, Human capital

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Relational archetypes, organizational learning, and value creation: Extending the human resource architecture

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A process of value creation that links organizational learning, social relations and HRM with focus on knowledge flows across various employee groups in the HR architecture is discussed. The way in which each of the archetypes occurs in the context of HR architecture and many implications of the framework are provided.

Business Personnel Management, Labor Relations, Employee Relations, Analysis, Evaluation, Organizational learning, Labour relations

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