What is HR Strategy?
This is considered in simple terms 'Staffing'
It is putting a policy in place for the following areas:
Recruitment - How do you recruite the best employees?
Retain - How do we keep the best employees?
Termination - How do terminate poor employees? - How do we 'learn from' good employees leaving?
Recruitment activities include: How do we perform interviews? (standardized/subjective) Where do we post? (Ask current employees, job boards, headhunter,etc) What criteria do we establish? (random drug screens, personality tests, etc)
HR Strategy is aligning the goals of HR to the goals or strategy of your organisation. recruitment, retention and termination are a small part of it.
In developing a strategy two critical questions must be addressed.
• What kinds of people do you need to manage and run your business to meet your strategic business objectives?
• What people programs and initiatives must be designed and implemented to attract, develop and retain staff to compete effectively?
In order to answer these questions four key dimensions of an organization must be addressed. These are:
• Culture: the beliefs, values, norms and management style of the organization
• Organization: the structure, job roles and reporting lines of the organization
• People: the skill levels, staff potential and management capability
• Human resources systems: the people focused mechanisms which deliver the strategy - employee selection, communications, training, rewards, career development, etc.

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