The human resource management is certainly linked with hiring & recruiting people, and then managing them for an organization, but this is the simplest of activities performed by HR department. The HR department has to look at human resource management process beyond just hiring and managing employees, and make it a strategic tool to align with strategic business goals, so that an organization can achieve what it wants to achieve though its people. It is important to understand that just hiring people is not going to do anything big for an organization; rather it is crucial for HR to understand that they have to come up with a strategy, which is looking for high level of performance. So it is critical to link human resources with strategic goals of an organization so that overall performance of the business can be improved, and system can go in the right direction. The human resource department has to come up with strategies which nurtures a great workplace environment so that an organization can achieve success with great level of competitive advantages (Bagga and Srivastava, 2014)

References of Human Resource Management as a Strategic Tool

Bagga, Teena, and Sanjay Srivastava. 2014. "SHRM: alignment of HR function with business strategy." Strategic HR Review 13 (4/5).