Specific Aspects Of The Strategic Human Resource Management In Companies From Western Region Of Romania

This paper aims to bring into focus a concept extensively studied over the years in the international literature, but to a limited extent in the local. Importance basis resulting from the need for awareness that is absolutely necessary to move to another level in companies in Romania, pointing to a strategic human resource management, to support the organization in achieving goals. The original purpose of this paper is to present, by summarizing existing information in the literature, the meanings given to the concept of strategic human resource management, focusing only on those specific but the last decade. The second part consists of an investigating effort on the existence of strategic human resource management in large or very large companies in the Western Region of the country (Arad, Caras-Severin, Hunedoara, Timis) and which are not subsidiaries of multinational companies. We started from the hypothesis that can identify a relationship between the extent of the existence of strategic human resource management in organizations and the characteristics of the human resources strategy, specific activities of the Human Resources Department and human resource practices that are used strategically, in order to contribute to the strategic objectives. The results confirmed the hypothesis established, demonstrating there is a direct, positive and statistically significant between the variables listed above. The research in this part represents a singular approach and representative for the Western Region of the country, providing important information to all stakeholders and could represent a starting point for further research.