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Strategic Human Resource Management: 37 Years in Academia, How Many in Practice? A Focus on Large Companies

In: Beyond Human Resources - Research Paths Towards a New Understanding of Workforce Management Within Organizations

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  • Alaine Garmendia
  • Unai Elorza
  • Urtzi Uribetxebarria

Abstract

In the fast-changing global workplace of today, maintaining competitive advantage has become imperative to survival. Employees matter today more than ever since they become non-imitable sources of firm uniqueness that can deliver value to every stakeholder. Based on this, the field of Strategic HRM has gained a special interest among researchers and practitioners since it employs a strategic approach to the role of employees within the organisations. However, looking at the business world results, it looks like there is a divorce between academia and practitioners and that they are operating in a parallel way. With the aim of evidencing this gap and echoing this issue, this chapter is structured as follows. It starts with a summary of the research conducted under the SHRM field in the last two decades. It follows with a section that evidences the gap between research and practice showing the results of global companies' surveys related to people management. In the third section a special focus on big companies is done due to their importance when legitimizing managerial trends. The chapter finishes with some conclusions and thoughts for future managers.

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  • Alaine Garmendia & Unai Elorza & Urtzi Uribetxebarria, 2021. "Strategic Human Resource Management: 37 Years in Academia, How Many in Practice? A Focus on Large Companies," Chapters, in: Gonzalo Sanchez & Fernando Martin-Alcazar & Natalia Garcia-Carbonell (ed.), Beyond Human Resources - Research Paths Towards a New Understanding of Workforce Management Within Organizations, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:227967
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.96677
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    Keywords

    strategic human resource management; research-practice gap; organisational performance; employee engagement; employee empowerment;
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    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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