Strategic human resources partnerships with businesses – Cambodian banking sector experience’

ABSTRACT

Strategic human resource (HR) management suggest that HR strategic partnerships bring positive impacts to business resulting in an improvement in organisational excellence. Qualitative and quantitative surveys of the Banking industry in Cambodia were executed to determine the current HR strategic partnerships in the business; and what is the extent of the effectiveness of the partnerships on the organisational performance.  The findings revealed that effective HR strategic partnering affects organisational performance positively; HR strategic partners play an increasingly important role to achieve business objectives. HR leaders achieved a moderate extent of HR effectiveness, leaving areas for improvement outlined in this article.