Changes such as how employees are hired into the organization, training and development, performance appraisal and employee relations are all factors that affect an organization (Mello 2015). This can be a barrier for organizations that fail to view unsuccessful efforts as a learning experience and impose consequences for failure. According to Mello, people are creatures of habit and resist change. This can cause strategies to fail. Conclusion The reason why organizations encounter these obstacles when implementing strategic human resource strategies is due to the culture of the organization and the resistance of employees to change. Strategic human resource management can be successful if organizations invest more in their employees, recognize employees for their efforts, change their mindset towards offering non-quantitative incentives, consider long-term results rather than short-term results and provide more to their human resources departments.