1. CHAPTER 16
Strategy and
Human Resource
Development

2. Chapter 16 Strategy and Human Resource Development Chapter Outline
• Introduction
• Schools of Strategic Thinking
• The Strategic Roles of HRD
• Adopting a Strategic HRD Perspective
• Scenario Planning and Strategic Planning
• Advancing Scenario Planning Theory and Practice
• Strategic Planning
• Conclusion
• Reflection Questions

3. Schools of Strategic Thinking
1. Design
2. Planning
3. Positioning
4. Entrepreneurial
5. Cognitive
6. Learning
7. Power
8. Cultural
9. Environmental
10. Configuration

4. The Strategic Roles of HRD
--Contributed by Richard J. Torraco & Richard A. Swanson
• HRD, Expertise, and Strategy
• HRD as a Shaper of Strategy

5. Adopting a Strategic HRD Perspective
• Strategic Role 1: Performance-Based HRD
• Strategic Role 2: Demonstrating the Strategic Capability of HRD
• Strategic Role 3: Emergent Strategy and HRD

6. Scenario Planning • Interviews • Interview Questions • Workshops
--Contributed by Thomas J. Chermack
• Interviews
• Interview Questions
• Workshops
• Creating the
Scenario Stories
• Using Scenarios
to Examine Strategy

7. Advancing Scenario Planning
Theory and Practice

8. Strategic Planning • Contributions of HRD to
Strategic Organizational Planning
• Strategic Agenda Facing HRD

9. Chapter 16 Reflection Questions How is strategic planning
different than planning?
Select the strategic thinking
school you believe to be the
best for HRD and explain why.
3. What are the three strategic roles
of HRD? Describe each and give
an example of each.
How does scenario planning
inform strategic planning? How
are these two processes related?
Illustrate strategic from nonstrategic HRD practices.
6. Describe a major strategy for
advancing the human resource development profession.