Strategic Alignment of HR in Organizations

The goal of s trategic human resources management is alignment between s trategy and HR practices. In other words, if HR practices designed to be aligned with organizational s trategy, they can create value. For this reason, this research was done to design a mechanism for aligning business s trategy and HR practices by design science research.Metod based on this research method, after problem introduction, a solution is proposed, developed and implemented and finally is evaluated. For this research a method was proposed by reviewing literature and implemented in an example organization. Data were collected and analyzed in five s tages. In order to identify the business s trategy, the organization’s documents including its vision and mission s tatement, organizational goals s tatement, and projects or activities were subjected to thematic analysis. Business capabilities were identified through interviews with seven experts. In the next s tep, interviews were conducted with two experts and the organization’s procedures and practices are reviewed to identify the s trategic processes and the s trategic jobs corresponding to each capability. A competency profile is then defined for each s trategic job using the DACUM method. Finally, HR practices in the example organization were designed. After implementing this method in example organization, in the final s tep of design science research, the HR alignment method was evaluated.