Paper #1

Strategic Management of HRM: Implications for Organizational Engagement

Ogutu Joseph Odhiambo

Abstract: The current study attempted to examine the relationship between some of the strategic HR factors and how they can enhance organizational engagement. Therein, the study strives to explore how training opportunities that can be strategically useful for employees can enhance their organizational engagement. Accordingly, the study also tested how career development opportunities that employees deem to be viable for them in the long run would relate with their organizational engagement. The study sampled employees from the manufacturing sector in Bahrain and reported significant impact of employee training opportunities with organizational engagement. Accordingly, the study also reported significant relationship between career development opportunities provided by the organizations and their organizational engagement. The study therefore concluded that organizations could help enhance employees` connectivity with the company through providing healthy training and career growth opportunities that they will perceive to be useful for them strategically. The paper presents notable implications for HRM practitioners.

Keywords: Strategy; Training; Career; Engagement; Engagement Strategy; Strategic Management; HRM.