Agile HR Strategies: Prerequisite of Business Competitiveness in a Dynamic Environment

This article aims to analyze the domain of agile HR strategies that are oriented towards creating agile workers who play a strategic role in gaining and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage of business in a rapidly changing market environment. Organizational agility is needed to be adaptive in responding to various dynamics of change in the business environment. The concept of agile organization applies to all forms of organization both manufacturing and services. Various domains of organizational agility studies in previous organizational studies. Literature review is used to analyze that problem. Organizations respond to changes in the business environment by utilizing the resources they have. How Agile HR strategies can leverage the dynamic dimensions of organizational agility (agile enablers), namely knowledgeable employees who have the agile capabilities for conduct learning, coordination, communication, and collaboration, are the main discussions of this article. Agile HR strategies include a set of policies and/or practices in the management of human resources in business organizations which, among others, can provide agile workers, collaborative work culture, learning organizations, design work-teams oriented, and practices oriented to empower workers. Managerial implications are presented at the end of this article.