Strategic Resource Management

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Strategic Resource Management
Introduction
This report will analyze the challenges of strategic resource management for a manufacturing company operating in four countries—the U.S., Mexico, France, and Turkey. The report will describe the special challenges of strategic resource management as it pertains to all four geographies, with special attention to human capital, information capital, organizational capital, strategy alignment, and enterprise continuity management. The conclusion is that the greatest challenge in such an environment is most likely to be strategy alignment.
Human Capital
Chew and Gottschalk (2009) explain that “Organizations manage human capital by instituting a variety of human resource and work practices” (p. 149)....

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