Strategic human resource management: Employee involvement, diversity, and international issues

The new millennium will necessitate many changes in organizations and therefore in the issues we study. The field of strategic human resource management has certainly come to an evolutionary crossroads. It has evolved quite rapidly during the past decade, growing from early definitional and theoretical beginnings to the current state of an accumulation of empirical work exploring the fit among human resources practices, strategy, and performance. We attempt to stretch the boundaries of how we define and research strategic human resource management, by introducing three arenas for inquiry that may serve as a springboard or starting point for provocative and controversial discussion which may influence both the theoretical and empirical progress in the field. We focus on Employee Involvement, Diversity, and Strategic International Human Resource Management as presenting important challenges for current researchers and future scholars.