'In Zimbabwe There Has Been a Non-Strategic Cost Cutting Associated With the Zimbabwe Is Open for Business Mantra and Zimbabwe Companies Have Been Grappling With the Fallout of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) and the Excessive Short-Term Thinking' Examining This Statement Using the ‘Evidence-Based Management’ and Any Other Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) Tools

Zimbabwe companies have been grappling with the fallout of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) and the excessive short-term thinking and arguably non-strategic cost cutting associated with the Zimbabwe is Open for Business mantra. Some human resources professionals feel that they have been forced out of the loop as their companies undertook organisation-wide transformation to survive the attended economic crisis. According to Ndimande and Moyo (2018) the Zimbabwe is open for business is a foreign policy under President Emmerson Mnangagwa and this foreign policy has shifted from focusing on the political towards the economic. Ndimande and Moyo (2018) denotes that Zimbabwe's foreign policy has been designed in such a way that provides assistances to Zimbabwe's economic recovery, aids economic growth, generates employment and reassures a climate conducive to attracting investors into the country. This paper seeks to gain an understanding of the Zimbabwe is Open for Business mantra and the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), to examine that in Zimbabwe there has been a non-strategic cost cutting associated with the Zimbabwe is Open for Business mantra and Zimbabwe companies have been grappling with the fallout of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme and suggesting any other strategic human resources management tools which supports actions of Zimbabwean companies grappling with the fallout of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme