1. Business Strategy, Financial Strategy, and HR Strategy

What makes one company more successful than another? Is it because it has nicer office buildings, newer research labs, or better manufacturing equipment? If it is the differences in people that create differences in corporate value, then the HR function (though not necessarily the HR department) is critical to a corporation’s success. Clearly line managers have an important role in hiring, developing, and motivating the people that can make an organization successful. Perhaps surprisingly it is the role of human resource managers in this process that is less clear. Should human resource managers have primarily an administrative role focusing on the processing of transactions and compliance ...

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