Strategic HRM is a theoretical model rather than a practical reality. Discuss

Abstract The essay that's undertaken presents the conflicting issues between Industrial Relations and Unitarism, which reflects a Strategic perspective. It was easily recognizable that society as a whole is slowly converging into unitarism. What became blatantly clear is the conflicting interest between Strategic HRM and Industrial Relations, which ultimately reflected the trend of management simply putting HRM first, which excluded Industrial relations issues. Also, HRM was found as a means to bypass Industrial relations, this …

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