For more than ten years, a great deal has been written about the key role that human resources can play in acquiring a competitive advantage. HRM activities would become strategic if the organization's philosophy, policies, programs, practices, HRM processes and strategic needs were...

The author offers a theoretical examination of the concept of a human resources (HR) architecture and its two main dimensions: vertical alignment and horizontal consistency. Regarding vertical alignment, the author theorizes that, on the whole, organizations that are of the same type and that...