A study by Armstrong (1994: p. 52) found that there were three common threads in developing strategies within each of the 10 blue-chip companies he questioned: • Strategic leadership from the top, which creates the vision and sets the direction. ... One of the main underlying themes in the philosophy of HRM is that human resource needs must be taken into account in getting everyone to meet organisational objectives, and that this will be to the advantage of everyone concerned. ... Schein (1987) sees HRM as a philosophy, and maybe even a discipline in its own right, where as perso...

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