Strategic Human Resource Research
Businesses around the world employ a variety of strategic measures to secure and enhance human resources. The knowledge acquired through an organization’s human resources is what enables executives to realize strategic objectives. McShane and Von Glinow 2004 write, “intellectual capital is the knowledge that resides in an organization [and] is the sum of everything that an organization knows that gives it competitive advantage—including its human capital, structural capital, and relationship capital” ( p. 23).
The members of Learning Team C have evaluated the InterClean, Inc. scenario to determine viable measures for maximizing human resources to improve their competitive advantage in the marketplace. InterClean, Inc. executives have changed the organizational focus and have acquired a new set of employees with the acquisition of EnviroTech. Executives are challenged to realize new strategic objectives by aligning the corporate vision with an integrated human resources strategy. The following paragraphs offer a comparative analysis of several major corporations that have experienced similar marketplace challenges. In addition, the analysis provides a correlation of key concepts as identified by team research and highlighted in the individual synopses that follow.
Analysis
InterClean executives desire a change in strategic vision and are seeking to capture a greater market share in the cleaning industry. Executives are challenged to integrate sixty new employees with the acquisition of EnviroTech, who pioneered the customer and service based systems InterClean intends to implement. This acquisition offers InterClean an opportunity to capitalize on this “fit” of intellectual capital ...