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...

The purpose of the study was to construct and test the psychometric properties of the Nurse Manager Competency Inventory (NMCI), a self-assessment tool for measuring the job competencies linked to performance and staff retention of first-line nurse managers employed in the hospital setting. The...