Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …

Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have … organization structure of the business and (2) because diversified/allied business models prevail, it is important to lay out the …

knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly assume that HR … professionals must be fully versant about external business realities that directly or indirectly influence how to apply that … knowledge. We examine four of the most central categories of external business knowledge: advancements in technology, the causes …

in the "missing middle" sector of Kenya's economy, and (b) to investigate the business strategies used by these managers … business. Other methods such as mail, newspaper, radio and television advertising were rarely used. The existing government …' decision to go into business. Flexibility, quality products, and customer service were the principal business strategies used …

Business Development Program (SBDP) and those who have not received any business training with a view to identifying training … perceptions of the business problems and their causes than those entrepreneurs who did not participate in the training program …. The SBDP Group perceived and reacted broadly to the business environment while the untrained group perceived and reacted …