CHAPTER 16 Strategy and Human Resource Development.

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. Planning3. 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

--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 16Reflection Questions1. How is strategic planning

different than planning?2. 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.

4. How does scenario planning inform strategic planning? How are these two processes related?

5. Illustrate strategic from nonstrategic HRD practices. 6. Describe a major strategy for

advancing the human resource development profession.