Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration

The literature review on Human Resource Administration (HRA) permits inferring that since the late 1970s, interest emerged to align processes in personnel management with the business strategy. Along with new practice, also came a new field of study: Strategic Human Resource Administration (SHRA). I...

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Main Author: Héctor L Bermúdez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad del Valle 2014-12-01
Series:Cuadernos de Administración
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-46452014000200010&lng=en&tlng=en
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description The literature review on Human Resource Administration (HRA) permits inferring that since the late 1970s, interest emerged to align processes in personnel management with the business strategy. Along with new practice, also came a new field of study: Strategic Human Resource Administration (SHRA). It was proved that, since the last quarter of the century, the global tendency in the executive practice has been the application of Strategic Human Resource Models (SHRM). These have been classified by this new field of study from each of their theoretical contributions. Thus, it is possible to currently find in the world four dominant theoretical perspectives: the Universalist, the contingent, the configurational, and the contextual perspectives. This article presents a concise description of these perspectives and criticizes the fact that, in spite of the huge theoretical accumulation, within this strategic vision of personnel management, the ethical aspects are quite problematic. This leaves the need to formulate local investigations seeking to improve the state-of-the-art and it is concluded that with these types of theoretical approaches, it is not possible to conduct human management stricto sensu
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spelling doaj.art-ef7713628d7e47d9a7d225ec4d8500152022-12-22T01:24:39ZengUniversidad del ValleCuadernos de Administración0120-46452014-12-01305294104S0120-46452014000200010Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource AdministrationHéctor L Bermúdez0Escuela de Altos Estudios Comerciales (HEC)The literature review on Human Resource Administration (HRA) permits inferring that since the late 1970s, interest emerged to align processes in personnel management with the business strategy. Along with new practice, also came a new field of study: Strategic Human Resource Administration (SHRA). It was proved that, since the last quarter of the century, the global tendency in the executive practice has been the application of Strategic Human Resource Models (SHRM). These have been classified by this new field of study from each of their theoretical contributions. Thus, it is possible to currently find in the world four dominant theoretical perspectives: the Universalist, the contingent, the configurational, and the contextual perspectives. This article presents a concise description of these perspectives and criticizes the fact that, in spite of the huge theoretical accumulation, within this strategic vision of personnel management, the ethical aspects are quite problematic. This leaves the need to formulate local investigations seeking to improve the state-of-the-art and it is concluded that with these types of theoretical approaches, it is not possible to conduct human management stricto sensuhttp://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-46452014000200010&lng=en&tlng=enadministración estratégica de recursos humanosalineación horizontalalineación verticalestrategia
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Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration
Cuadernos de Administración
administración estratégica de recursos humanos
alineación horizontal
alineación vertical
estrategia
title Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration
title_full Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration
title_fullStr Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration
title_full_unstemmed Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration
title_short Contemporary Perspectives of Strategic Human Resource Administration
title_sort contemporary perspectives of strategic human resource administration
topic administración estratégica de recursos humanos
alineación horizontal
alineación vertical
estrategia
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