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Consider how SAS used organizational strategy to drive HRM practices. What are they doing that is different than most others? How and why did SAS do what they did? What was their goal? How did it work out? How did it impact their employees in terms of retention, satisfaction, and productivity? Could your firm do what SAS did? Explain why or why not. Cite sources.

(http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/sanity.html)
(http://www.sas.com/corporate/index.html)
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/main50102.shtml--)
(http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=550244n )

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Strategy in short is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term which achieve advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment to meet the needs of market and to fulfill the expectations of the stakeholders.

Organizational strategy is a clear definition of how the organization needs to change - over time - in order to be able to deliver the strategy of the enterprise and an actionable plan of how to make the transformation. This requires both the thinking and analysis to compare current state to desired state and define the gap, and the execution capabilities to make the requisite changes happen.

The second definition serves our purpose in the sense that it states:-

How the organization needs to change over time;
In order to be able to deliver the strategy of the enterprise an actionable plan;
Of how to make the transformation;
This requires both thinking and analysis to compare ...

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