Professional Documents
Culture Documents
– Involves aligning initiatives involving how people are managed with organizational
mission and objectives
Models of Strategy
• Mission statement
• Environmental analysis
• Organizational self-assessment
• Establishing goals and objectives
• Facilitates development of high-quality workforce through focus on types of people and skills
needed
• Facilitates cost-effective utilization of labor, particularly in service industries where labor is
generally greatest cost
• Facilitates planning and assessment of environmental uncertainty, and adaptation of
organization to external forces
• Philosophy
– Statements of how organization values and treats employees; essentially culture of the
organization
• Policies
– Expressions of shared values and guidelines for action on employee-related business
issues
• Programs
– Coordinated and strategized approaches to initiate, disseminate, and sustain strategic
organizational change efforts necessitated by strategic business needs
• Practices
– HR practices motivate behaviors that allow individuals to assume roles consistent with
organization’s strategic objectives
– Three categories of roles:
• Leadership
• Managerial
• Operational
• Processes
– Continuum of participation by all employees in specific activities to facilitate formulation
and implementation of other activities