SHRM Society for Human Resource Management Complete Study Guide

Chapter 15Structure of the HR Function

Exam Notables

The July–August 2021 edition of Harvard Business Review contained an interesting article titled, “Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?” The author, David J. Collis, noted that the primary reason why so many strategies fail is that leaders focus on the parts of strategies instead of the whole—that is, on a single strategy at the expense of the system.

This is certainly understandable when, in HR departments for example, the immediate demands are important. It may be necessary to push hard in recruiting because teams can't find qualified people or target the design of incentives to help bring employees back from hybrid work schedules. If an HR team's attention remains too narrow, however, it distracts ...