Chapter 3

Resource Interdependence

Overview

As we saw in chapter 1, people are essential to an organization’s performance because of their influence over winning, developing, sustaining, and utilizing the resources that make up the enterprise. This chapter will do the following:

  • explore the interdependence of resources, and in particular, how they combine to assemble the “strategic architecture” of the enterprise
  • highlight the impact people have on these interdependencies
  • explain the significance of people as custodians of resources in managing the wider system

The Interdependence of Resources

If human resource (HR) professionals are to help the management team improve performance, they need to appreciate how the business system actually ...

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