...Strategic human resource management has been defined as ‘the linking of human resources with strategic goals and objectives in order to improve business performance and develop organizational culture that foster innovation and flexibility’ (Hussain, 2010). It is for certain that when a company decides to change directions in it strategy the HRM practices needs to change to support the new strategy. In order to effectively gain competitive advantages though HRM practices; the HRM practices needs to change in three major areas: knowledge workers, employee empowerment, and teamwork. Knowledge workers are employees whose main contribution to the organization is specialized knowledge, such as knowledge of customers, a process, pr a profession (Noe et al, 2009). Employee empowerment means giving employees responsibility and authority to make decisions regarding all aspects of product development and customer service (Noe et al, 2009). Teamwork is the assignment of work to groups of employees with various skills who interact to assemble a product or provide a service (Noe et al, 2009). Redmond Minerals gained a great competitive advantage by utilizing their understandings of how important the HRM practices are to it company. The company’s HRM practices allowed his company to maximize its productivity of the organization by optimizing the effectiveness of its employees. Technology/Internet Advances in computer-related technology have had a major impact on the use of information...
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...The Influence of Organizational and Human Resource Management Strategies on Performance by Raduan Che Rose, PhD, and Naresh Kumar, PhD T oday a firm’s success largely depends on the capabilities of its members. Firms may have the capital and technology, but it is Human Resources (HR) that will help firms face the challenges of business globalization. Capital can be generated. So can technology. But the HR required to propel an organization through the coming challenges must be rightly and appropriately encouraged and motivated. Significantly, these days careful management of this important resource calls for a strategic focus on Human Resource Management (HRM) in the organization. Previous research on HRM widely accepted that employees create an important source of competitive advantage for firms (Barney, 1991; Pfeffer 1994). As a result, it is important that a firm adopt HRM practices that make best use of its employees. This trend has led to increased interest in the impact of HRM on organizational performance, and a number of studies have found a positive relationship between so-called “high-performance work practices” (Huselid, 1995) and different measures of company performance. Furthermore, there is some empirical support for the hypothesis that firms, which align their HRM practices with their business strategy, will achieve superior outcomes (Bae & Lawler, 1999). However, a review of the literature indicates a serious lack of large-sample empirical studies designed...
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...superior to others a. Geocentrism b. Polycentrism c. Ethnocentrism d. Egocentrism 2. It is the systemic study of job requirements & those factors that influence the performance of those job requirements a. Job analysis b. Job rotation c. Job circulation d. Job description 3. This Act provides an assistance for minimum statutory wages for scheduled employment a. Payment of Wages Act, 1936 b. Minimum Wages Act, 1948 c. Factories Act, 1948 d. Payment of Gratuity act, 1972 4. __________ is the actual posting of an employee to a specific job a. Induction b. Placement c. Attrition d. None 5. Broadening an individual’s knowledge, skills & abilities for future responsibilities is known as a. Training b. Development c. Education d. Mentoring 6. Change that is designed and implemented in an orderly and timely fashion in anticipation of future events a. Planned change b. Technology change c. Structural change d. None 7. It is a process for setting goals and monitoring progress towards achieving those goals a. Performance appraisal b. Performance gap c. Performance factor d. Performance management system 8. A method which requires the rates to provide a subjective performance evaluation along a scale from low to high a. Assessment centre b. Checklist c. Rating scale d. Monitoring 9. It is the sum of knowledge, skills, attitudes, commitment...
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...1: THE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT OF HRM LEARNING OUTCOMES After reading this chapter, students should be able to: • Discuss how cultural environments affect human resource management (HRM) practices. • Describe how technology is changing HRM • Identify significant changes that have occurred in workforce composition • Describe the HRM implications of a labor shortage • Describe how changing skill requirements affect HRM • Explain why organizational members focus on quality and continuous improvements • Describe work process engineering and its implications for HRM • Identify who makes up the contingent workforce and the HRM implications • Define employee involvement and list its critical components • Explain the importance of ethics in an organization. CHAPTER OVERVIEW The chapter’s opening vignette illustrates how Four Seasons Resorts and Hotels uses the Golden Rule to treat the employees as you expect them to treat the customer. While customers like to be pampered, so do the employees as evidenced by the Four Seasons being listed in Fortune magazine as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” every year since the list started in 1998. Overviews of today’s dynamic business world, highlighting cultural environments, globalization, technology, and social history evolution, set the stage for discussions about the implications to the HR field. These topics include: multicultural issues, global workforces, HRM technology, workforce diversity...
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...|[pic] |LISA BEGGS | | |School of Business | | |HRM/300 Fundamentals of HumanResourceManagement | Copyright © 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. MU12BSM05 7/11/2012-8/8/2012 Course Description This course explores the critical role of human achieving resources in business results. The course will help students to have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of human resource management and its strategic relevance in business today. This course will provide students with a critical perspective on the development of human capital in the context of a unified system of attracting, retaining and developing talent that creates and supports the vision and values of the organization. Students will develop an understanding of the critical business implications for human resource professionals today. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies:...
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...RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, BUSINESS STRATEGY FIT AND FIRM PERFORMANCE Oya Erdil & Ay e Günsel Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey ABSTRACT While there has been growing interest concerning the relationship between human resource (HR) practices, firm strategy and firm performance, limited research attention has been paid providing empirical evidence in support of them. This study investigates the relationships between HR practices, human resources management (HRM) - firm strategy fit and the firm performance of 63 small and medium sized firms located around Kocaeli and Gebze from both theoretical and empirical perspective. The findings indicate a strong relationship between different HR practices and HRM-firm strategy fit and firm performance. Further, the results provide support for the assertion that HR-firm strategy fit can significantly assist a firm in improving performance. Therefore, empirical support is obtained for the efforts at aligning HRM practices with firm strategy and firm performance. (recruitment, development, etc.) share the same basic character and play a similar kind of role in relation to strategic management (Luoma, 2000: 771). Effective HRM strategy systematically organizes all individual HRM measures to directly influence employee attitude and behavior in a way that leads business to achieve its competitive strategy. (Huang, 2001: 134). In view of the fact that the goals and necessities of each of the competitive...
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...Ethnocentrism. 2. It is the systemic study of job requirements & those factors that influence the performance of those job requirements a. Job analysis b. Job rotation c. Job circulation d. Job description Answer: Option ‘a’ – Job Analysis 3. This Act provides an assistance for minimum statutory wages for scheduled employment a. Payment of Wages Act, 1936 b. Minimum Wages Act, 1948 c. Factories Act, 1948 d. Payment of Gratuity act, 1972 Answer: Option ‘b’ – Minimum Wages Act, 1948. 4. is the actual posting of an employee to a specific job a. Induction b. Placement c. Attrition d. None Answer: Option ‘b’ - Placement 5. Broadening an individual’s knowledge, skills & abilities for future responsibilities is known as a. Training b. Development c. Education d. Mentoring Answer: Option ‘b’ Development. 6. Change that is designed and implemented in an orderly and timely fashion in anticipation of future events a. Planned change b. Technology change c. Structural change d. None Answer: Option ‘a’ -Planned change 7. It is a process for setting goals and monitoring progress towards achieving those goals a. Performance appraisal b. Performance gap c. Performance factor d. Performance management system Answer: Option ‘d’- Performance Management System 8. A method which requires the rates to provide a subjective performance evaluation along a scale from low to high a. Assessment centre b. Checklist c. Rating scale d...
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...COURSE OVERVIEW This course presents key theoretical concepts and examples of HR issues in practice today. We will cover material on the origins, the nature and the likely future of HRM, including legal aspects and international perspectives. Discussions will center on HRM policy and practice concerning recruitment and selection, organizational exit, performance management, careers, training and development, job design and reward. We will also examine employee relations and equal opportunities in the context of their relationship with HRM. LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: 1. Understand HRM from a systemic and strategic perspective. 2. Explain the practice of HRM as it relates to managers and employees in organizations. 3. Appreciate fundamental employment laws in a global context (e.g. France, North America and/or Europe). 4. Conduct a basic job analysis and apply this understanding of job requirements to other HRM systems such as selection, performance appraisal, and compensation. 5. Analyze business challenges involving HR systems. 6. Critically assess and evaluate HR policies and practices. TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS A combination of the following teaching methods and tools will be used in this course: § Lectures (“CM” or ‘Cours Magistraux’)—There ...
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...influence on enterprises. Moreover rapid development of information technologies affects the process of human resources management in enterprises. The aim of the paper is the analysis of utilization of IT in human resources management in high-tech enterprises in the USA. These practices will be presented in following areas: recruitment and selection, development and training, performance management, motivation, talent management, employee self-service systems. There will be also presented results of studies on the utilization of IT tools in HRM conducted in Polish enterprises. Results of conducted survey shows increasing utilization and variety of IT solutions in all surveyed areas in high-tech enterprises in the USA what caused the crucial influence of HRM process. The level of IT tool implementation in HRM processes taking place in Polish enterprises is low, which, according to enterprises, results from the lack of funds for implementation of this type of solutions. In the future enterprises are planning further implementation due to drawn advantages, consolidate individual HRM processes and implement cloud-based solutions. Keywords: human resources management, information technology, e-HR, HRM practices 1567 1. BACKGROUND 21. century has seen a rapid growth of information technologies in nearly all aspects of human activity and growth of the Internet users which was less than 1% of world population in 1995 and more than 40% in the middle of 2014 (Internet World...
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...1. Introduction The discussion between promoters of best practice and best fit approaches has sparked widespread controversy in the human resource management (HRM) area. The topic has gained much scholarly attention because it not only addresses a theoretical controversy but also possesses a high degree of practical managerial significance. The essay has the aim to analyse best practice and best fit approaches in HRM of a multinational enterprise. The reader receives insight into Lincoln Electric's organization through a case-study analysis of practical HR approaches serving as a basis for developing practical managerial implications in the last part of the paper. 2. Critical evaluation of "best practice" and "best fit" practices in HRM 2.1 Best practice approach The best practice approach claims that certain bundles of HR activities exist which universally support companies in reaching a competitive advantage regardless of the organizational setting or industry (Redman and Wilkinson 2009). Best practice models imply a close connection between HR practices and organizational performance and are often associated with high commitment management (Paauwe & Boselie 2003). Empirical research in the best-practice field shows similar groups of HR polices which are especially suitable for maximizing performance irrespective of market and product strategies (Peffer 1998, Guest 2000). Best practice bundles of activities are characterized as mutually compatible HR activities...
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...often noting the critical difference between competitive strategy and business strategy. Some even went further into corporate strategy, the resource based, and knowledge based view as well as ethics, culture and institutional setting. Surprisingly none of them questioned what was meant by a firm’s HR system. I will follow the same line of argument in this paper with thanks to the students, very few of whom have any intention of becoming HR professionals. We start with some of the classics in strategy and HRM, go on to look briefly at some major studies, or the ones that have influenced my thinking. Thereafter the paper notes the problems with the assumed link with competitive strategy as a dominant, or the dominant, force in determining an HR system. Once the focus is widened to cover business strategy two very interesting, and linked, phenomena can be observed. First, what we thought strategy was all about has changed hugely. Second, our definition of what constitutes HRM (or the management of employment relations) has broadened beyond recognition. This is where the definition of...
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...Mining Excellence at Redmond Minerals HR Management Foundations HRM 500 Mining Excellence at Redmond Minerals The HRM practices that Redmond Minerals needed to change to the support the new strategy within their company was to first recognize the importance of their company personnel and create a strategy that will eliminate fear and promote growth within the company at all positions. The HR department now must attain and evaluate each employee contributions to the company on a scale relevant to their position. This is where a high performance work system comes in to play which creates the best possible fit between their employee social system and their equipment technical system. This function of having a high performance work system is based on the reliance of knowledge workers, the empowerment of employees to make decisions, and the use of team work. The HRM practice has to incorporate various measures to create outlets for performance management, training, work design, and compensation to demonstrate the importance for successful output. This in turn allows HRM to focus on the strategy of the company putting emphasis growth and efficiency; allowing the department to implement total quality management practices. Those practices consist of methods and processes that are designed to meet the needs of internal and external customers, every employee in the organization receives quality training, quality is designed into a product or service so that errors are...
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...Chapter 01 Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage True / False Questions 1. Companies have historically looked at HRM as a means to contribute to profitability, quality, and other business goals through enhancing and supporting business operations. True False 2. The human resource department is most likely to collaborate with other company functions on outplacement, labor law compliance, testing, and unemployment compensation. True False 3. The three product lines of HR include a) administrative services and transactions, B) financial services, and c) strategic partners. True False 4. The amount of time that the HRM function devotes to administrative tasks is decreasing, and its roles as a strategic business partner, change agent, and employee advocate are increasing. True False 5. Advances in technology have allowed HR services to be offered more on a self-service basis than in the past. True False 6. HR functions related to areas such as employee development, performance management, and organizational development are outsourced most frequently. True False 7. Evidence-based HR provides managers with data to make decisions, instead of just relying on intuition. True False 8. Stakeholders of a company are shareholders, the community, customers, employees, and all of the other parties that have an interest in seeing that the company succeeds. True False ...
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...25, 2012 Abstract Human resource development has become an essential component in the developmental process of any organization. In the field of human resource management, training and development is the field which is concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in an organizational environment. Human resource training is of growing importance to companies seeking to gain an advantage among competitors. Training has an effect on both the employee and organizational goals. Forces at various levels influence changes in human resources strategies and directions. Those with the most direct effect include changes in the nature of the organization’s mission, work and overall policy direction. Other forces are internal to the organization itself (its culture, work organization and management style), while still others originate outside the organization and are related to the global economy and other changes in society. Training and development helps an organization to equip each employee with the knowledge and skill needed to perform his/her job effectively. This project will evaluate the effectiveness of the training and development programs offered by the HRtrainingCenter.com. A HRM company which provides training and certification services Marketing Environmental Forces That Affect Human Resource Management Industry Introduction As with any market there are external environmental forces that directly and/or indirectly...
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...2010 Volume 5, Number 2 Impact Of Job Analysis On Job Performance: Analysis Of A Hypothesized Model Rehman Safdar, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Pakistan Ajmal Waheed, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan Khattak Hamid Rafiq, National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan ABSTRACT Researchers have developed a relationship between HRM practices and organizational performance, but the relationship between HRM practice like job analysis – employee Job performance remains unexplored. This paper, based on a study of employees of Pakistan Public sector regulatory authorities of telecommunication, oil and gas, power, media, security exchange, banking sector and organizations being regulated by these authorities is an attempt to develop and test a hypothesized model linking HR importance of job analysis with employee job performance. Survey results of 568 employees indicated that practice of job analysis was strongly related to employee job performance. The findings suggest that an organisation-wide policy of job analysis is an important source of competitive advantage in its own right, and requires due attention of HR professionals. The study extends the findings of the HR–employee job performance research pursued in Western countries to a non-Western context. Keywords: Human resource management; HR practices in regulatory authorities; HR-performance linkage; Job analysis; Job performance; Job satisfaction; Job retention; Recruitment Process; Knowledge...
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