Strategic Human Resource Management Abstract Human resources refers to the sum of the ability to work within a certain range of the overall population; or means the sum of intellectual and physical labor ability which can contribute to the entire economic and social development. The focus of human resource management (HRM) is on managing people within the employer-employee relationship. Specifically, it involves the productive use of people in achieving the organization’s strategic business objectives and the satisfaction of individual employee needs. (Stone, 2010) The Strategic Human Resource Management focuses in the linking of all human resource activities with the organisation’s strategic objectives. (Stone, 2010) It was first developed in the late 1980s and then it has an impressively development in the following 20 years. This idea has been discussed and researched intensively, European, American and Japanese business management practices proved that it has competitive advantage to approach a long-term strategic for sustainable development. Compared to traditional Human Resource Management, Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) is positioned to support corporate strategic role and functions of human resource management. This assessment is to discuss the idea of Strategic Human Resource Management and the roles that a Human Resource manager will need to undertake. It is aimed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the study of Human Resource Management.

Thompson and Strickland define strategic management as “the process whereby managers establish an organisation’s long-term direction, set specific performance objective, develop strategies to achieve these objectives in the light of all the relevant internal and external circumstances and undertake to execute the chosen action plans.” (Thompson, 1987) It helps organisation to achieve a