Human Resource Strategy: Definitions and Concepts

An HR strategy refers to a firm's pattern of strategic choices in labor management?

All organizations are required by law to have an HR strategy in place for managing people?

HR strategy content concerns the process by which the HR strategy is developed?

HR strategy implementation refers to the way in which the strategy is enacted in practice in the organization?

HR strategies may only be explicit and documented?

Gratton and Truss define HR strategy as a strategy for managing its people to optimal effect?

HR strategy content is influenced by both internal and external factors. True or False?

According to Bowen and Ostroff, HRM content and process must be integrated effectively for prescriptive models of strategic HRM to link to firm performance. True or False?

System architecture, policy alternatives, and practices are the three levels identified by Becker and Gerhart in an HRM system. True or False?

HR architecture refers to the fact that organizations may have different sub-strategies for different employee groups. True or False?

Baron and Kreps identify single-employee consistency, among-employee consistency, and temporal consistency as different forms of consistency in the HR system. True or False?

Consistency is beneficial due to technical, psychological, social, recruitment, and distributive justice reasons. True or False?

According to Wright and Snell (1998), consistency enables prospective employees to understand the type of employment on offer to avoid mismatching. True or False?

The nature of an organization’s HR strategy is heavily influenced only by external factors. True or False?

Becker and Gerhart suggest that there are four levels to an HRM system: System architecture, policy alternatives, practices, and implementation. True or False?

The HR strategy content is not influenced by organizational structure and culture. True or False?

HR strategy refers to the strategy that an organization adopts for managing its people. True or False?

HR strategy content concerns the process by which the HR strategy is developed. True or False?

All organizations are required by law to have an HR strategy in place for managing people. True or False?

HR architecture refers to the fact that organizations may have different sub-strategies for different employee groups. True or False?

The nature of an organization’s HR strategy is heavily influenced only by external factors. True or False?

HR strategies may only be explicit and documented. True or False?

HR strategy content is influenced by both internal and external factors.

HR architecture refers to the fact that organizations may have different sub-strategies for different employee groups.

Baron and Kreps identify single-employee consistency, among-employee consistency, and temporal consistency as different forms of consistency in the HR system.

HR strategy content concerns the process by which the HR strategy is developed.

Gratton and Truss define HR strategy as a strategy for managing its people to optimal effect.

HR strategies may only be explicit and documented.

The nature of an organization’s HR strategy is heavily influenced only by external factors.

HR strategy implementation refers to the way in which the strategy is enacted in practice in the organization.

According to Bowen and Ostroff, HRM content and process must be integrated effectively for prescriptive models of strategic HRM to link to firm performance.

The HR strategy content is not influenced by organizational structure and culture.