Human Resource Strategy ─ Formulation, Implementation, and Impact

What is Human Resource Strategy? How are human resources strategies formulated and how can we explain the variance between what is espoused and what is actually implemented? What impact – if any – does human resource strategy have on the organization’s "bottom line," and how can this impact be explained? Is there one best HR strategy for all firms, or is the impact of HR strategy on performance contingent on some set of organizational, technological or environmental factors?

Human Resource Strategy, 2nd ed. provides an overview of the academic and practitioner responses to these and other questions. Applying an integrative framework, the authors review thirty years’ worth of empirical and theoretical research in an attempt to reconcile often-conflicting conceptual models and competing empirical results. Complex theoretical models and scientific findings are presented in an accessible and relevant way, in the context of the strategic decisions that executives are forced to make on a regular basis. This new edition features an updated literature review, coverage of the latest challenges to HR strategy, new mini-cases, discussion questions, additional examples, and an emphasis on the strategic implications of the research.

Peter A. Bamberger is Professor at Recanati School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Michal Biron is Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa, Israel, and a visiting researcher in the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Ilan Meshoulam is Professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa, Israel.