CHAPTER 16 Strategy and Human Resource Development
Chapter 16 Strategy and Human Resource Development Chapter Outline • Introduction • Schools of Strategic Thinking • The Strategic Roles of HRD • Adopting a Strategic HRD Perspective • Scenario Planning and Strategic Planning • Advancing Scenario Planning Theory and Practice • Strategic Planning • Conclusion • Reflection Questions
Schools of Strategic Thinking 1. Design 2. Planning 3. Positioning 4. Entrepreneurial 5. Cognitive 6. Learning 7. Power 8. Cultural 9. Environmental 10. Configuration
The Strategic Roles of HRD --Contributed by Richard J. Torraco & Richard A. Swanson • HRD, Expertise, and Strategy • HRD as a Shaper of Strategy
Adopting a Strategic HRD Perspective • Strategic Role 1: Performance-Based HRD • Strategic Role 2: Demonstrating the Strategic Capability of HRD • Strategic Role 3: Emergent Strategy and HRD
Scenario Planning • Interviews • Interview Questions • Workshops --Contributed by Thomas J. Chermack • Interviews • Interview Questions • Workshops • Creating the Scenario Stories • Using Scenarios to Examine Strategy
Advancing Scenario Planning Theory and Practice
Strategic Planning • Contributions of HRD to Strategic Organizational Planning • Strategic Agenda Facing HRD
Chapter 16 Reflection Questions How is strategic planning different than planning? Select the strategic thinking school you believe to be the best for HRD and explain why. 3. What are the three strategic roles of HRD? Describe each and give an example of each. How does scenario planning inform strategic planning? How are these two processes related? Illustrate strategic from nonstrategic HRD practices. 6. Describe a major strategy for advancing the human resource development profession.