Time for Realignment: The HR Ecosystem

The concepts of fit and alignment have been foundational to the field strategic human resource management. And while theoretical premises that underlie these remain useful intuitively compelling, lack empirical evidence support them proves problematic. Part reason, we suspect, is current research on does not fully reflect realities contemporary organizations or practical challenges faced by managers. We argue HR researchers an opportunity reframe better complexities dynamics models strategy organization. suggest ecosystem perspective can help us study processes alignment, just its static features. It depict interactions among elements workforce compositions, capabilities, cultures. Because are myriad constantly in flux, might approach evolutionary way whereby practices changing then being reintegrated into system assure consistency synergy. benefit doing so reinvigorate HR.