Towards Strategic Human Resource Management: A Pilot Study in a Finnish Power Industry Company

Abstract

Describes a process through which an organization moved from traditional personnel management towards a more strategically oriented human resource management. Focuses on tracking down, periodically, the actions taken by the human resource manager and his/her relationships with the strategic management team within the context of major structural and strategic changes. Suggests that the internal dynamism of the human resource function led by an innovative leader, serves as a critical mechanism to keep the change process going after its start under favourable organizational and strategic circumstances.

Citation

Ropo, A. (1993), "Towards Strategic Human Resource Management: A Pilot Study in a Finnish Power Industry Company", Personnel Review, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 35-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/00483489310042680