- Strategic i.e. planned, deliberate, seeking to achieve set objectives
- Capabilities i.e. people or resources with potential (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) which can be developed to contribute to organisational success.
- Competitive advantage – by tapping into and developing these capabilities organisations give themselves an edge over their rivals
- Integrated – that the range of things under HRM (recruitment, selection of employees, their training and development, how they are rewarded) is looked at together not as separate things.
