Why academics and HR professionals embraced SHRM?

Why academics and HR professionals embraced SHRM?

by MICHAEL EMMANUEL KRISTANTO . -
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Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has gained popularity among academics and HR practitioners due to its ability to closely integrate HR practices with the organization's overarching strategic goals. This leads to several key benefits:

  • Integration with Business Strategy: 

Rather than performing alone, SHRM ensures that HR initiatives promote and advance the organization's long-term goals.


  • Improved Organizational Performance:
Businesses can increase productivity, employee engagement, and competitive advantage by integrating HR methods with business strategy.


  • Proactive Talent Management:

Rather than responding to pressing issues, SHRM promotes foreseeing future labor demands and nurturing talent appropriately.


  • Evidence-Based Practice:

It offers a framework for calculating how HR affects business results, which makes HR choices more rational and data-driven.


  • Responding to Changing Environments:

By coordinating HR policies with these outside variables, SHRM assists businesses in adjusting to shifts in markets, technology, and workforce composition.


  • Enhanced Role of HR Professionals:

HR professionals now play a more strategic role in organizational decision-making, moving up from administrative duties.


I believe SHRM has a solid commercial case, but to reap the rewards, actual dedication and deft implementation are needed. It won't be beneficial to merely embrace the language of strategy without altering behavior or coordinating HR with business objectives.

Therefore, even if professional positioning and self-interest may have contributed to SHRM's appeal, when done well, the core idea of SHRM—connecting people practices to strategy—makes a significant impact.