Competitive Advantage In Human Resource Management

The human resource management stands for the management of an entity’s workforce and all that relates to the workforce. The significance of human resource management includes recruitment, orientation, and the ability to retain employees. The human resource management with other managers utilizes these practices in order to produce a solution that relates to challenges. A competitive advantage refers to the business ability to gain the advantages of its economic activities that, it recognizes the organization’s ability to survive and overcome competition in the marketplace. This paper will discuss the concept of competitive advantage in human resource.

The human resource management job is to make a strategic impact to competitive advantage

One of the causes that influences an organization’s human resource is its strategy. A strategy refers to a plan that in place to guide business operations and activities. The business strategy then provides schedules and activities for the employee, and as a result affects the human resource. The scope is to build on qualifications and capabilities, therefore influences human resource to higher capacity while the unsuitable distribution of tasks may dampen human resource to poor results. Managers in the organization play a significant role in influencing human resource. The type of leadership structure and leadership style implemented by the organization establishes the level of encouragement that a leader and their leadership have on human resource. An ineffective leadership will fail to mobilize human resource into performing required tasks due to poor control of employees. Effective leadership influences human resource management responses to the management’s needs towards competitiveness. Ammi, F. T., & Mushatt, S.

Human resource competencies are for example important in facilitating efficiency in performance of organizations’ operations towards competitive advantage. Business knowledge, change management, and human resource distributions are examples of human resource competencies that contribute to organizations’ competitive advantage. Such initiatives are however, undermined by institutional factors such as business ‘short termism’, cost centered strategies, as well as professional factors such as lack of business skills, inefficiency in measuring and evaluating success, attitude, and organizational