Strategic HRM for Employee Performance Management

Strategic HRM

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
HRM or Human Resource Management................................................................................1
SHRM or Strategic Human Resource Management...............................................................1
HRM and SHRM....................................................................................................................2
HRM and SHRM for employee performance management...................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The human resource management refers to the management of the workforce for enhancing
their performance within the organisation by performing HRM activities like organising,
recruitment, directing, providing wages etc. on the other hand, strategic HRM refers to the
unification of efforts of the people working within an organisation with the organisational goals,
objectives and aims. The following report will be describing HRM and strategic HRM within an
organisation for improving the performance management within an organisation to enhance
employee performance. Moreover, it will also discuss and illustrate the connection within HRM
and SHRM for enhancing the performance management activities.
MAIN BODY
HRM or Human Resource Management
Human resource management can be explained as planning, organising, staffing, directing,
controlling, coordinating, reviewing and paying activities concerned with the human resource,
working within an organisation. The main activities of HRM within an organisation are to hire,
retain, and provide training and development to the staff or employees (Bouaziz and Hachicha,
2018). HRM is a practiced device to increase the productivity of employees for making them
more efficient and effective by applying the principles of management to manage the employees.
The main focus of HRM is to recruit, provide training, appraise, organise, safety and growth,
industrial relations, training etc. to the employees of the entity. The main functions of an HR
manager includes planning, staffing, directing, controlling, monitoring, evaluating and managing
relations with the employees within an organisation.
SHRM or Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategic human resource management refers to the activity are the strategy of the business
to combine or align the strategies of the business with the human resource practices within an
organisation. In simple words it can be stated as the strategy of an organisation to align the
business objectives, mission, vision, aims and goals with the human resource practices within an
organisation. The primary objective of strategic HRM is to raise the performance of business and
maintain a work culture that encourages the performance of employees towards improvement of
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