RESEARCH MATTERS: HRM – THREE WAYS TO MAKE A STRATEGIC DIFFERENCE
How can coaching support business strategy? Examining the role human resource management (HRM) plays in organisations will help put coaching in context, says Adrian Myers, senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University
There are three ways in which human resource management (HRM) can support business strategy according to Torrington et al (2014): the “universalist”, “best fit” and “resource-based” approaches.
In the case of the universalist approach, the assumption is made that a range of HR practices (eg, employee involvement programmes,...