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Strengths And Weaknesses Of Resource Based Model

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According to (Jay, 1991), the resource-based perspective emphasizes the strategic importance of exploiting internal 'strengths' and neutralizing internal 'weaknesses'. The resource-based model has influenced SHRM by showing the importance of the effective utilization of human resources in order to generate superior performance from employees, hopefully leading to successful delivery of the civil service strategies. By human resources themselves, it was understood the knowledge, skills and abilities of the employees combined with their motivation to put these individual characteristics to use for the benefit of the organization. As well Bach (2004) underlined, resource-based model helped demonstrate the importance of a strategic HR approach …show more content…

In recommendation, it is important for managers to align the HR strategy of the firm with business strategy in order to attain competitive advantage. Also the interest of employees should be considered, the employees' interest should be aligned with the interest of the firm. The RBV has significantly and independently influenced the fields of strategy and SHRM. More importantly, however, it has provided a theoretical bridge between these two fields. By turning attention toward the internal resources, capabilities and competencies of the firm such as knowledge, learning, and dynamic capabilities (Hoskisson, Michael, William, & Yiu, 1999), it has brought strategy researchers to inescapably face a number of issues with regard to the management of people (Barney, 1996). We would guess that few strategy researchers are well versed in the existing research base regarding the effectiveness of various specific HR tools and techniques for managing people, and thus addressing these issues with necessary

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