Reinventing Strategic Human Resource Management

ABSTRACT

Strategic HR professionals need to possess certain competencies in order to develop and implement strategic human resource management (SHRM) policies, procedures, practices and strategies in the new normal. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Industrial Revolution 4 and other future challenges highlight a need for SHRM to be reinvented. A qualitative research method within an interpretivist research philosophy was used to allow for an in-depth analysis of secondary data on SHRM in the new normal. Phenomenology was used as the research design. The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges, policies, procedures, practices, strategies and competencies of SHRM in the new normal. Electronic databases were used and 12 relevant articles were included for secondary data analysis. A theoretical framework to reinvent SRHM was developed. SHRM challenges and competencies were identified to ensure the successful development and implementation of SHRM policies, procedures, practices and strategies. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.