...think it is important for HR to be a strategic partner to the business? Within a business the Human Resource department is a strategic partner, also there will be appropriate utilization for the human resources in any company, in order to direct the business to achieve it appropriate goals. Utilizing this can result into an asset, or advantage for all individuals involved. In my opinion it is important for HR to be a strategic partner for a business because HR partners help Motivate, and help retain worthy hard working employees for the company. This is achieved by the right Training curriculums in order to aid in enhancing employee’s skills set or provide new skills that are necessary to help improve the company’s capability and functionality at that given time. Also it help’s in architecting incentive plans for employees in order to motivate them and somewhat modify in working environment. HR is strategic partners due to the fact that there are boundaries between the employees and employers. Guidance is given between the two entities in respect to dealing with matters in an appropriate matter according to company standards or rules. They also participate incorporating the company beliefs on the importance of the corporation’s plans in its entirety. HR instilling in every individual the corporation’s policies and procedures throughout and making sure that it is being followed to its entirety. In all HR is a great strategic partner in any company because they...
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...elevated position the Human Resource Department aims to help by streamlining functions of the department and move to a centralised Business Partner model. It is hoped this will bring added benefits to the Snow Mountain Hotel in a number of ways by standardising operations and creating a base for excellence. This report aims to analyse the proposed Business Partner model in the context of the Snow Mountain Hotel and explore the disadvantages and advantages of the aforementioned model and evaluate the potential setbacks. It also aims to set out clearly the implementations of the model in practical terms going forward. The Business Partner model first put forward by Ulrich (Ulrich 1997), is sometimes referred to as the “three-legged stool” model. This maintains that all three components of the HR Business Partner model must work cohesively and in tandem for the model to be effective and workable. Within the model there is an HR Business partner who takes on five roles (Ulrich & Brockbank 2005). These are specified as being a “strategic partner,” a “change agent,” an “administrative expert,” an “employee champion” and an “HRM leader.” Leading from the HR Business partner are “Shared Service Centres” and “Centres of Excellence,” hence the reference to a “three-legged stool.” The HR Business partner aims to be strategic in following closely the business organisational goals and core strategies. From historically being on the periphery of...
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...Organizations HR AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN? CEO PUBLICATION G 03-2 (430) EDWARD E. LAWLER III SUSAN A. MOHRMAN Center for Effective Organizations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California January 2003 Center for Effective Organizations - Marshall School of Business U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a - L o s A n g e l e s, C A 9 0 0 8 9 – 0 8 0 6 (2 1 3) 7 4 0 - 9 8 1 4 FAX (213) 740-4354 http://www.marshall.usc.edu/ceo HR as a Strategic Partner: What Does It Take to Make It Happen? by Edward E. Lawler III & Susan Albers Mohrman A number of articles, books and studies have argued that HR needs to become a strategic partner (Ulrich, 1997; Brockbank, 1999; Lawler & Mohrman, 2000a). But is HR becoming a strategic partner? What does becoming a strategic partner entail? And is the HR function more effective when it is a strategic partner? The answers to these questions are critical to the future development and direction of the human resource function in organizations. A number of forces have converged to support the idea of HR being more of a strategic partner. Corporations are undergoing dramatic changes with significant implications for how human resources are managed. Perhaps the most important of these changes is the rapid deployment of information technology and the increasing amount of knowledge work that organizations do. Also important are the rapidly changing business environment and...
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...Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education 2013 New HR organizational structures in Czech and Slovak organizations Marek Striteskya* a University of Econonics, Prague, W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67 Prague, Czech Republic Abstract The paper deals with Human Resource Organizational Structures in Czech and Slovak organizations, reflecting new trends which are related to HR Business Partner model. HR organizational structure is the framework within a human resources department that divides the decision making functions within HR into specific groups with distinct job functions. HR Business Partner model reflects modern expectations arising from new roles of human resources managers in organizations which include its strategic consequences, change support and also its abilities of HR systems development and improvement of employee engagement. The paper in its first part describes basic principles of new roles of human resource departments in organizations based on HRBP concept and also new competencies required. In the second part the paper presents situation in these aspects in organizations from different sectors of the Czech and Slovak economy (especially secondary and tertiary sector), benefits of the HR department transformation and some conclusions drawn from the analysis of data obtained from qualitative and quantitative survey. It also compares specific situations and documents specific applications of these new trends with more or less developed HR organizational...
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...(Re)Designing the HR Organization Amy Kates, Downey Kates Associates M 22 any HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade. This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 29.2 and controlling the cost of transactional work. Little formal consideration has been given, however, to how these new complex HR organizations should be configured to best achieve these goals. This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws. Each model is described and discussed and a set of considerations for the HR leader is offered in order to maximize the effectiveness of the chosen organization design. Over the last decade there has been a profound shift in the work of the HR function. The publication in 1997 of David Ulrich’s Human Resource Champions spurred HR leaders across various industries to realign their organizations in order to undertake “strategic business partner” work. At the same time, a focus on cost-cutting and efficiency aimed at staff functions in general—and at HR in particular—has pushed much HR transactional work into shared services or to outsourced vendors. For many HR departments, this process of “transformation...
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...MDI Murshidabad in association with HrUdbhav( HR club of MDIM) organized its first HR Meet “Samanvay’15” on 19th & 20th September, 2015. This very first edition of HR Meet was based on the premise that the overall HR scenario in India and at the global level is undergoing a sea change. HR is no more a staff-function; rather it has acquired an agile role. Subsequently many HR managers, unlike in the past, are becoming strategic business partners. They possess significant leadership qualities and are capable of managing organizational change. They are actively involved in redefining culture of the organization. At the same time, they are facing increasing challenges in their search of high HR performance to retain talents and build engagement in the workplace. This Conclave intended to bring eminent and senior professionals from the industry who has significant achievements to their credit. It acted as a rendezvous for the participants to listen to views and experiences pertaining to the emerging challenges in HR. The conclave also extended an opportunity for individuals associated with the field of HRM, namely the corporate managers, faculty members and students, to learn and interact with each other. This enriched the audience and lead to an awakening among them. The panelists shared their experiences and created learning on the HR related best practices which they have been experiencing in their organizations. The event saw active participation both from industry and academia...
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...Center for Effective Organizations WHAT MAKES HR A STRATEGIC PARTNER? CEO PUBLICATION G 09-01 (555) EDWARD E. LAWLER III Center for Effective Organizations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California JOHN W. BOUDREAU Center for Effective Organizations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California Center for Effective Organizations - Marshall School of Business U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a - L o s A n g e l e s, C A 9 0 0 8 9 – 0 8 7 1 (2 1 3) 7 4 0 - 9 8 1 4 FAX (213) 740-4354 http://ceo-marshall.usc.edu What Makes HR a Strategic Partner? Edward E. Lawler III Center for Effective Organizations University of Southern California 3415 S. Figueroa Street., #200 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0871 Tel: 213-740-9814 Email: elawler@marshall.usc.edu John W. Boudreau Center for Effective Organizations University of Southern California 1 What Makes HR a Strategic Partner? Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau Executive Summary For several decades, the HR function in corporations has been encouraged to become a strategic partner. Data from a longitudinal study of large corporations suggest that HR is not now a strategic partner and that little or no movement toward it becoming one has occurred. An analysis of what HR can do to become a strategic partner shows some clear actions that HR can take. These include talent development in HR, creating corporate centers of excellence, developing the right...
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...Split Up HR? Mind the Talent Management Gap: HR-A and HR-LO Abstract Human Resources has gone through ever-evolving changes over the years. They have been transitioning from transactional to becoming a strategic business partner with the high level executives of businesses. They are moving towards becoming the corporate centers of excellence by developing the right metric and analytics, the right talent and understanding how much human capital impacts successful business results. This paper analyzes the trends, contributions, skills and challenges that HR professionals have been and are going through to become the effective Strategic Partner. Mind the Talent Management Gap: HR-A versus HR-LO Ram Charan, a worldwide business adviser and speaker, suggests to eliminate the position of Chief Human Resources Officer and split human resources into 2 strands for the sake of practicality in helping HR build business intelligence to help organizations perform best. One strand would be called something like HR-A for administration, would manage compensation and benefits, and report to the CFO. This strand would view compensation to attract talent and not just a large cost. The other strand would be called something like HR-LO for leadership and organization, would focus on talent development and performance and report to the CEO. High potential line managers from operations or finance with business expertise and people skills would lead HR-LO. Leading employees from HR-LO would...
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...you think is it important for HR to be a strategic partner to the business? Strategic partners (also called strategic allies) are two or more companies that work together in joint ventures. Strategic partners often share long-term relationships and all parties within the partnership strive towards similar goals. Partners also do not get in the way of each other. Instead, they reinforce one another in order to obtain their set business objectives. For an HR department to be a strategic partner for a business, they must understand the strategic plan of that business, and vice-versa. Strategic planning produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. It requires broad-scale information gathering, an exploration of alternatives, and an emphasis on the future implications of present decisions. Planning simply improves decision-making. And, all levels of management and partnership engage in planning. It is important for an HR department to be a strategic business partner because it allows them to be able to work in (and with) every other department in an organization. There’s even a strong need for the HR function to adopt a more strategic and business-like approach too. Due to this type of involvement, workers at all stages of employment will become familiar with, and trust, the HR team. Some corporations may even find it beneficial having HR members present in corporate business meetings, so that they can witness...
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... Global Business partner – strategic planner – talent ACQUISITION ➢ Managed best-in-class Business Unit acquisition in Frankfurt Germany for Nypro Healthcare ➢ Advisory Board member for Pharmaceutical Packaging strategic initiative ➢ Sourced/hired senior level Design/Development team for new medical/surgical group ➢ Integrated PEAK Surgical (Palo Alto, CA) with Salient Technologies (Portsmouth, NH) MEDTRONIC, INC. Portsmouth, NH 2012 – Present Advanced Energy, LLC Global HR Director/Strategic Business Partner • Direct report to VP/GM global $300M surgical technologies business unit – HR/OD strategy. • Focus on 200 person commercial team – transition from distributorship model to B2 B direct sales. • Part of new leadership team – long-term strategic goal: $1B annual revenues by 2020. • Aggressive expansion plans in underserved surgical markets: India, China, and South America. • Executive staffing, succession planning, leadership development and talent management focus. • Driving unique high-performance culture setting the bar for MDT in double digit growth model. NYPRO, INC. Clinton, MA 2009 – 2012 Healthcare Global Business Unit $1.4B Global Medical Device Manufacturer Global Director, Human Resources • Sr. HR Executive for Healthcare Global Business Unit – reported to GBU Group President • Lead Global HR Teams in Hong...
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...Strategic partners (also called strategic allies) are two or more companies that will work together in joint ventures. Strategic partners often share long-term relationships and all parties within the partnership strive towards similar goals. Partners also do not get in the way of each other. Instead, they reinforce one another in order to obtain their set business objectives. Strategic planning produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. It is important for an HR department to be a strategic business partner because it allows them to be able to work in and with every other department in an organization. There’s even a strong need for the HR function to adopt a more strategic and business like approach too. Due to this type of involvement, workers at all stages of employment will become familiar with, and trust, the HR team. Some corporations may even find it beneficial having HR members present in corporate business meetings. A proper HR team should help with moving business in the right direction and should also know what the goals of the people they manage are, and what motivates them to move forward. 2. By arranging HR to be a strategic partner, employees will develop a greater understanding of how the business that they work for actually functions. Employees that are blindly working towards an unknown goal tend to lose motivation and question there position. Having HR strategically...
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...HR Service Hub- Service Commitment 1. Purpose This document outlines the core Monash HR services delivered through the HR Hubs and supported by the HR Centres of Expertise to the Australian staff of Monash University. It sets out the services, the key performance metrics, service quality assurance and issue resolution process. 2. Vision and values Our vision is to be seen as integral to the success and reputation of Monash University by delivering exceptional HR strategy, service and solutions. Our purpose is to facilitate staff engagement and organisational performance by providing workforce management expertise and HR service and solutions. Our values, which guide our behaviour and priorities, are: • Excellence • Innovation • Collaboration • Integrity. 3. Lead HR Business Partners The Lead HR Business Partner is a strategic partner with the group of Faculties/Divisions assigned and is accountable for the strategic and operational management of HR services for their HR Service Hub and actively contributes to University- wide HR effectiveness. They report to the Director HR Business Partnering and have significant delegations and decision making capacity. They are responsible for identifying and delivering HR services for the dean/divisional director and faculty managers/resource managers, as appropriate and will actively support senior management and academic heads. Lead HR Business Partners will meet at least annually with the Dean/Portfolio Head and Faculty...
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...ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD (Department of Business Administration) Course: Human Resource Management (5532) Level: MBA Semester: Autumn, 2010 CHECKLIST This packet comprises the following material: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Note: Text book Assignments # 1 & 2 Course outlines Assignment 6 forms (2 sets) Assignment submission schedule In this packet, if you find anything missing out of the above-mentioned material, please contact at the address given below: The Mailing Officer Mailing Section, Block # 28 Allama Iqbal Open University, Sector H/8, Islamabad. Tel: (051) 9057611, 9057612 Mohammad Majid Mahmood Bagram Course Coordinator ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD (Department of Business Administration) WARNING 1. 2. PLAGIARISM OR HIRING OF GHOST WRITER(S) FOR SOLVING THE ASSIGNMENT(S) WILL DEBAR THE STUDENT FROM AWARD OF DEGREE/CERTIFICATE, IF FOUND AT ANY STAGE. SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM OTHER(S) AS ONE’S OWN WILL BE PENALIZED AS DEFINED IN “AIOU PLAGIARISM POLICY”. Course: Human Resource Management (5532) Level: MBA Semester: Autumn, 2010 Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 40 ASSIGNMENT No. 1 (Units: 1–4) Q. 1 Why HR is called the most important asset and competitive advantage of any organization in the world? (20) Your Solutions 2 Helping Material HR and Competitive Advantage In order to have an effective competitive strategy, the company must have one or more competitive advantage, factors that allow an...
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...Alignment of HRM and Business Strategies HRM 530 Jernita Taylor Dr. Joe DiBenedetto Starbucks Coffee Company is a global coffeehouse chain that started in Seattle Washington in 1971. With revenues increasing every year since its opening year Starbucks began to publically trade in 1992. In this paper I will evaluate Starbucks Coffee Company’s Human Resource and business strategy by describing HR positions in Starbucks and the responsibilities listed for the HR Department. I will determine which HR position I would prefer while working for Starbucks with reasoning. I will analyze how Starbucks can establish HRM strategies to improve competitive advantages and Lastly, I will discuss three ways the company can continue to increase diversity. I. To ensure that the HR strategy is aligned with the business strategy Starbucks can ensure that employees hired know what the goals and growth strategies are for the company as a whole and on an individual store basis. One of Starbucks business strategies of 2015 is to be the employer of choice. Starbucks believes its company’ success lies a great deal with the people the company chooses to employ and it’s also important for the company as a brand to have a name that’s respected in the way it treats its employees. A survey conducted by Starbucks shows that 27% of the customers love the brand because of the way it treats its people. (Starbucks Press Release, 2015) Starbucks HR strategy since 2011 has been to hire people who are the very...
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...changing HR function Contents Summary of key findings 2 Introduction 4 Restructuring the HR function 5 Benefits and challenges of HR structures 10 Roles and responsibilities of HR 15 HR skills and careers 24 Conclusions 26 Background 27 Acknowledgements 28 References 28 The changing HR function Summary of key findings • Fifty-three per cent of organisations have restructured of centres of expertise were identified, the most their HR function in the last year and 81% have done common being deeper professional knowledge. so in the last five years. By far the most common Other commonly perceived benefits are in the reason for restructuring was to enable the HR consistency of HR advice, the quality of advice function to become a more strategic contributor. given to HR partners and making the function a • Three out of ten respondents whose HR function has been restructured say that it now reflects the more strategic contributor. • In general, the most common difficulties three-legged ‘Ulrich model’ and a further 28% say encountered in restructuring the HR function are that this is partially true. However, only 18% of HR in defining new roles (42%), having insufficient functions actually had in place all three elements resources (40%), dealing with skills gaps (38%), of this model (shared services, business partners having...
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