What is strategic human resource management?

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This free course is about the interplay between decision making about people management and the environments within which such decisions are made. The underlying premise is that, normally, better choices are made when they are informed by an understanding of the multiple contexts which are relevant to those choices (Storey, Wright and Ulrich 2009). Numerous practitioners and analysts increasingly refer to the unusual levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in the wider environment. Turbulence is found, for example, in shifts in: economic fortunes across the globe severe weather events which interfere with air traffic and trade uncertainties arising from the threats and opportunities introduced to industry by the internet domestic political difficulties geopolitics in areas of regional unrest.