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Strategic HRM in the Era of Hybrid Work: Redefining Employee Engagement and Productivity

Issue Abstract

Abstract

The post-pandemic move towards hybrid operating has dramatically reshaped the group of workers, and in reaction, companies have been reviewing and reshaping their Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) practices. This study aims to observe how SHRM can reconceptualise worker productivity and engagement in hybrid settings, based on the strategic deployment of adaptable regulations, technological collaboration tools, and compassionate management. With employees traversing physical and digital spaces, maintaining motivation, accept as true with, and performance is now a vital HR issue. In its combined-techniques layout, incorporating survey information and expert interviews, the research examines the role of strategic engagement practices, virtual empowerment, and paintings-existence balance projects in influencing worker outcomes. It reveals that agencies embracing evidence-based, human-centred processes achieve greater worker retention, better morale, and improved productivity. The key achievement elements involve encouraging autonomy, flexibility, and psychological protection to make sure that employees sense valued and engaged regardless of where they are working. They have a looked at also requires growing a lifestyle of belonging and shifting far away from the conventional time-based measures of overall performance towards a results-oriented dimension, which better suits hybrid work arrangements. Through the emphasis of results over operating hours, agencies set up a tradition whereby personnel are assessed based on what they supply instead of what number of hours they paintings. Further, the research highlights SHRM's key role in fuelling resilience, flexibility, and lengthy-time period personnel viability. Through the focus on people's wellness, virtual empowerment, and regular mastering, SHRM permits companies to navigate the demanding situations of hybrid paintings at the same time as sustaining high performance throughout the team of workers. Overall, this has a look at specialises in SHRM as a primary pressure in the back of the fulfilment of an agency, securing each worker's job satisfaction and overall performance, and allowing corporations to excel in the changing hybrid work culture.

 Keywords: (Strategic HRM, Hybrid work, Employee engagement, Work-from-home, Organizational performance)

 


Author Information
R. Santhosh, Dr.S. Raja - II MBA Student, Department of Management Studies Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi Chennai, India.
Issue No
5
Volume No
11
Issue Publish Date
05 May 2025
Issue Pages
14-18

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