Stone Argues That HRM Activities Contribute to the Development of an Organisation's

Stone argues that HRM activities contribute to the development of an organisation's culture and provide it with a competitive edge by:

A) selecting only applicants with specialist skills to fill vacant positions.
B) restricting the organisation's strategic objectives to those that can be readily achieved with the existing human resources.
C) designing highly specialised jobs which allow employees to perform a narrow range of tasks more efficiently.
D) stimulating and reinforcing behaviours needed to achieve the organisation's strategic objectives.