Strategic Human Resource Managers: Creating a path from administrative to strategic function

In the previous years, the personnel department” played the role of administrative expert with the responsibility of hire, fire and handle disciplinary issues. In prior of 1970’ the personnel department” strictly played an administrative role with no involvement of strategic decisions ssand organization planning

The role of human resource management in organization has been evolving dramatically in recent years. Today's business organization requires HR managers to play a key business role.

People are now days recognized as the vital assets in the organization. Strategic human resource management realize that the people make or break an organization because all decisions made regarding finance, marketing, operations, or technology are made by an organization's people. The role of strategic human resource management is to formulate company strategies and implement those activities through HR activities. Today, if an organization is to survive, it need to be adopt and continuously seek to increase quality and performance, introduce or create new product and also seek to reduce cost. Thus HR is becoming the strategic partner by identifying the need of employee's skills and providing them training to develop and deploy those competencies.