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Strategic Human Resources Management: a Review of the Literature and a Proposed Typology

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Strategic Human Resources Management: A Review of the Literature and a Proposed Typology Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall; Mark L. Lengnick-Hall The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 13, No. 3. (Jul., 1988), pp. 454-470.
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Some writers on strategic human resources management have focused in specific areas: (a) human resource accounting, which attempts to assign value to human resources in a n effort to quantify this organizational capacity (Flamholtz, 1971; Frantzreib, Landau, & Lundberg, 1977),(b) human resources planning (Baird, Meshoulam, & DeGive, 1983; DeSanto, 1983; Galosy, 1983; Olian & Rynes, 1984; Russ, 1982; Stumpf & Hanrahan, 19841, (c)responses to a strategic change in the environment (Ellis, 1982; Fombrun, 1982;

Lindroth, 1982; Maier, 1982; Warner, 19841, or (dl matching human resources to strategic or organizational conditions (Gerstein & Reisman, 1983; Harvey, 1983; Leontiades, 1982; Migliore, 1982; Snow & Miles, 1983; Sweet, 1982). In this last category recruiting, selection, a n d retention (Galosy, 1983);compensation systems (Migliore, 1982);domain choice (Snow & Miles, 1983);productivity (Deutsch, 1982); a n d other specific elements are examined. However, few offer prescriptions for global human resource strategies. Other researchers have examined the broader scope of human resources strategies (Dyer, 1984; Smith, 1982; Tichy, Fombrun, & Devanna, 1982; Wills & Dyer, 1984). These researchers noted that the strategic management of human resources is a multidimensional process with multiple effects. They further pointed out that

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