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Linking business agility with people management practices

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  • Mollet, Léonie S.
  • Kaudela-Baum, Stephanie

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Organisations pursuing - agility often struggle with strategic alignment issues. In this paper, we link business agility, as a competitive strategy, and strategic Human Resources Management (HRM), and investigate how HRM can facilitate business agility by creating a suitably organised workforce. By means of an explorative case study of agile small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in New Zealand and Switzerland, we describe hypotheses about a new HRM archetype. In these knowledge-intensive organisations from the service sector, HRM grows into a distributed and collaborative people management practice across the whole organisation. Characterised by self-organisation, it emphasises individual and collective learning, encourages continuous sensemaking and connecting to a common purpose.

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  • Mollet, Léonie S. & Kaudela-Baum, Stephanie, 2022. "Linking business agility with people management practices," Die Unternehmung - Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 76(4), pages 430-442.
    • Handle: RePEc:nms:untern:10.5771/0042-059x-2022-4-430
    DOI: 10.5771/0042-059X-2022-4-430
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