ABSTRACTHistorically, there has been a myth in Corporate America which says there is a labor shortage of qualified talent, particularly among women and minorities in the high tech industry. Likewise, in 1998, the Joint Ventures Workforce Initiative Study, which analyzed the supply of skilled...

Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has become synonymous with describing the functional relationship between business strategy and human resource management. More specifically, Wright and McMahan (1992) described SHRM as the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities...