Integrating Human Resource Management and Corporate Strategy: A Preview of the 3M Story.

This article describes the initial stages of an endeavor to bring about an integration of strategic management and human resource management in a major manufacturing organization-3M. The focus is on the agenda of the organization's Vice President of Human Resources for bringing about the innovation through a systematic program of cultural analysis, professional development of line managers and human resource specialists, restructuring of the human resource management organization, and creation of a new partnership between line and human resource managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]