Strategic Alignment between Human Resource Strategy, Business Strategy, and Corporate Culture

This paper studies the relationship between HR and business strategies of a large Iranian tissue manufacturer with regard to the effect of organizational culture on formulating these strategies. In strategic human resource management it is necessary to have a holistic view towards business strategy, organizational culture and HR strategies due to their interrelatedness. Secondary data was used to identify the business strategy and 145 questionnaires filled out by organizational employees were used to identify organizational culture. Although formulating HR strategies which are aligned with business strategies and organizational culture is regarded as an example for applying natural models for formulating HR strategy, this paper has not only used a natural model but also has proposed three different scenarios.