Strategic Human Resource Management Content in the Annual Report of Companies: An Analysis Through Text Mining

Abstract:     
In light of different annual report studies, the paper argues that annual reports, considered to be a rich source of information about the future strategy of any company, can be analyzed for finding out the importance that top management places on SHRM concepts. By employing frequency analysis under text mining approach, the paper first identifies top ranked SHRM concepts by probing SHRM literature and then compares their ranking in the text of annual reports. The findings suggest that so far as annual report narratives are concerned, the area of interest of SHRM researchers are disjoint with those of the top management.

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Keywords: SHRM, Annual Reports, Text Mining, Concept Mining, Frequency Analysis

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