...Assignment Question Part A. Locate, read and review the following article: Tansley, C. and Tietze, S. (2013) ‘Rites of passage through talent management progressions stages: an identity work perspective’, The International Journal of Human Resource Management 24(9): 1799—1815. Part B. Reflect on the discussions that you have engaged in within your study groups on Blackboard. Explain how the lessons that you have learnt from the activities have influenced how you have approached and written your assignment Word Count: Part A: 1,054 Part B: 509 Total: 1,563 Research Questions Addressed by Study The research questions by Tansley & Tietze (2013) are ‘What constitutes rites of passage across successive levels of a talent management programme?’ and ‘What is the role of identity work in ensuring successful advancement through each talent management rite of passage?’ Theoretical Framework Underpinning the Study The study was to build on the literature of talent management at the individual and communal levels since existing talent management literature is mainly concerned with the structural aspect of talent management strategies. Therefore, not much emphasis has been placed on how management strategies and protocols are experienced and responded to by talent at different stages of talent management process and how these responses inform, incorporate and involve identity work by such talent (Huang and Tansley 2012, cited in Tansley...
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...Student Name | | Abdulrahman Redwan | 1316429 | A Global Perspective of Human Resources For Dr. Ali Alkahtani Human Resources: A Global Perspective Employee engagement and cultural issues have become the first challenge facing HR professionals around the world, according to the 2015 Global Human Capital Trends report, released by Deloitte. The report concludes, “Today’s HR challenges require a new playbook—one that helps make HR more agile, forward thinking and bolder in its solutions.” The report says today’s organizations are facing a new world of work that will require a reshaping of strategies for leadership and talent management. Because culture is the driving force in most organizations, engagement and retention strategies need to be responsive to these changes. However, more than half of survey respondents said their organizations have poor programs or no programs at all in place to gauge or bolster engagement levels. Other issues uncovered by the report include a global lack of leadership succession programs, with only 10 percent of respondents saying they have an “excellent” program in place, and the need for a complete makeover of most HR departments. Only 5 percent believe their organization's performance is excellent, with 22 percent saying their department is adapting to their workplace’s changing needs . What is happening in HR in 2011? Are we going to see a shift in the way that HR managers are recruiting employees to...
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...The Critical evaluation of Strategic Human Resource Management approaches By Willem van Mourik Over the past decades more and more companies have formulated a Human Resource Management policy for their employees. Where some employers see their staff as important resources to achieve a competitive advantage, others see them as valued assets and a source of competitive advantage (Guest, 1999). The way personnel were managed can be seen as the most significant reason to gain a competitive advantage over others (Salaman, Storey and Billsberry, 2005). In the 19th century and large parts of the 20th century labour was seen as abundant and economists classified it as the main variable costs (Salaman, Storey and Billsberry, 2005). People where hired and fired very quickly and pay was give on a performance related basis. Organizations and their managers did not want to invest in their personnel and their skill development. According to Kirkaldy and Flanders (1965), the decades before SHRM existed managing labour were based on productivity bargaining (Kirkaldy and Flanders, 1965). This period can also be described as the traditional HRM era. This all changed in the 1980’s when several big organizations started to think of new concepts and aspirations to create a competitive advantage over their rivals. British Airways for example demanded their staff to take the ‘commitment approach” instead of just complying. The airline had to make a bald move due to the enormous competition in...
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... monitoring and control aspects of resources whereas Personnel Management was mainly about refereeing between the management and employees. Many scholars view Personnel Management as being workforce whereas HRM is resource. The differences between these two terms have to be viewed from many perspectives through the times and in context of the industry that is being studied. Keywords: Human resource management, Personnel management, SHRM Introduction Many researchers have been arguing recently the difficulty of distinguishing clear differences between Personnel management and Human resource management. Some authors believe that the difference is just a change of label as Torrington (1989cited in Koster 2007) said and there is no different in the content of Human resource management. On the other hand, there are researchers such as Guest (1987 cited in Arsmtrong, 1999) who argued that Human resource management is differentiated from traditional Personnel management. However, HRM is concerned with performing the same functional activities traditionally carried out by personnel function, but HRM approach performs these functions in a qualitatively distinct way when compared with personnel management (Storey, 1989). 161 European Scientific Journal June edition vol. 8, No.13 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 In this article, the differences between Human resource management and Traditional personnel management are...
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...International Human Resource Management product: 4273 | course code: c252|c352 International Human Resource Management Centre for Financial and Management Studies, SOAS, University of London First Edition 2008, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this course material may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, including photocopying and recording, or in information storage or retrieval systems, without written permission from the Centre for Financial & Management Studies, SOAS, University of London. International Human Resource Management Course Introduction and Overview Contents 1 Course Objectives 3 2 The Authors 4 3 Course Structure 4 4 Learning Objectives 5 5 Study Materials and Resources 6 6 Teaching and Learning Strategy 6 7 Assessment 7 International Human Resource Management 2 University of London Course Introduction and Overview Centre for Financial and Management Studies 3 1 Course Objectives This course aims to introduce you to the study and practice of International Human Resource Management (IHRM). To benefit from this, you need, of course, to have a basic understanding of Human Resource Management (HRM) itself. HRM has developed from personnel management, but instead of concentrating primarily on the hiring and firing of staff, it is the strategic and coherent approach to the overall management of an organisation’s most valued assets – the people working there who contribute...
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...Capital Metrics? A Review of Human Capital Metrics Human Resource Metrics has become crucial for Balanced Scorecards and other performance measurement systems. This is a result of the need for effective management over human resource capital. Senior management often fails to comprehend the value of human resources within the organization. Thus, there is too often little emphasis on human resource management within a balanced scorecard. As a result, it is essential to demonstrate the value of human resource capital to executive management. Human Capital Metrics represent the activities a company engages in to fully access the value of their employees. All companies have employees, from CEO’s to receptionists; knowing how well each employee does his or her job is critical to remaining competitive. A scorecard measures financial, business, workforce, and customer tasks completed by employees. These individual metrics allow a company to cumulatively put information together on each employee. The holistic perspective of each activity on the human capital scorecard typically starts singularly and is reviewed all together once it is complete. The first step for human resource management to make is to understand value-based and financial metrics. Once there is an understanding of value, then a company can move into developing a set of metrics that recognizes the relationship between human resources and finance. The primary focus in human Capital Metrics is on people...
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...Abstract: this paper explore the relationship between the corporate strategy and human resource management of the organisation and their effect on organisation performance outcome. A survey based approach is used to collect data from selected number or organisation. Overall we expected that the fit between corporate strategy and HRM practices will yield to a positive effect on organisation performance List of Contents Abstract ……………………………… 1 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview ………………………………. 3 1.2. Literature review and hypotheses ………………………………. 4 2. The research method and conceptual framework 2.1. Method ………………………………. 6 2.2. Measures ………………………………. 7 3. Results and conclusion ............................... 8 4. References ………………………………. 9 Appendix ………………………………. 10 1. Introduction: 1.1 Overview: Each organization has its particular strategy to fit its distinctive competencies, needs and circumstances. Strategy can be conceptualized into three levels: corporate level, business...
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...------------------------------------------------- MBA SEMESTER 2 ------------------------------------------------- MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL ------------------------------------------------- LECTURER DAVID HALL AND DR. RAJENDRA KUMAR ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ADRIAN ALEJANDRO GALINDO LARA ------------------------------------------------- STUDENT ID L0174MVMV012 ------------------------------------------------- MBA SEMESTER 2 ------------------------------------------------- MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL ------------------------------------------------- LECTURER DAVID HALL AND DR. RAJENDRA KUMAR ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- MHC ASSIGNMENT | HRM-TQM PERSPECTIVES AND RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION METHODOLOGIES | MHC ASSIGNMENT | HRM-TQM PERSPECTIVES AND RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION METHODOLOGIES | PART “A” ESSAY 2327 WORDS (EXCLUDING REFERENCES) HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES Table of Contents Table of contents 3 Abstract 4 Introduction 5-6 Literature Review/Discussion ..7-9 British Perspective 7-8 Latin American Perspective 8-9 Conclusion 9-10 References 11 ABSTRACT Nowadays in the modern organizations Human Resource Management (HRM) is a key issue not only for a competitive advantage in the business and the development or success...
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...Ethics In Human Resource Management Alisha Wood Saint Augustine’s University Ethics and Human Resource Management Wikipedia, defines ethics as: "…a study of values and customs of a person or a group. It covers the analysis and employment ofconcepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility." Wikipedia, defines utilitarianism as: “…ethical doctrine of greatest good. The ethical doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the criterion of the virtue of action The complexities of business and our human/social society makes corporate ethics a very interesting study. To a practicing manager in the working world today, this becomes critically important, especially if they don’t get it! And many obviously have not and still do not. The questions are really simple to ask - yet hard to answer: What does good business today really mean? What does ethics have to do, if anything, with good business? What impact can the human resource function have on either? Within business, what is my responsibility as a human resource professional? Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is known as one of the areas that has drawn many attentions in the business environment over the last twenty years. Carroll (1991) argued that corporation should be addressed not only from economic and legal perspectives but also from ethical and philanthropic perspectives; the idea of CSR’s pyramid is then derived. Furthermore, the efficiency theory...
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...“Best Perspectives to Human Resource Management” Author: Arrey Mbongaya Ivo ©2006 African Centre for Community and Development (www.africancentreforcommunity.com ) All rights reserved. Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction, Perspectives in Management and the genesis of Human Resource Management 1.1 Scientific or Closed management, Human Relations or Semi open system, Open System or Contingency system 1.2 Personnel management/ Personnel Manager 1.3 The genesis of Human Resource Management(HRM)/Defining Human Resource Management 1.4 What is ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ HRM? 1.5 The Debate between Human Relations(HR) and Human Resource Management(HRM) 1.6 The Human Resource Manager and his role 2.0 Attempting a framework for Human Resource Management(HRM) 2.1 Using HRM as a style, a strategy and an outcome 2.2 Is HRM a restatement of Personnel Management? 2.3 Is HRM a new managerial discipline? 2.4 HRM as a resource-based dimension of management 2.5 The Strategic and international possibilities of HRM 3.0Using some models of HRM to critically assess HRM “Hard” and “Soft” Approaches. 3.1The Harvard Model 3.2The Michigan Model 3.3Guest comparative models 3.4The ‘Choice Model’ and its benefits. 4.0The influence of senior management and their Effectiveness 4.1 policy makers 4.2 senior managers and their frames of reference 4.3 The more effective the better the policies 4.4 The Japanese example 5.0 Conclusion, limitations and proposals 5.1HRM a widespread contemporary, evolving & contingent...
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...What is talent management? There is a degree of debate in relation to the conceptual boundaries of talent management (TM) when the literature on the topic is reviewed (Collings & Mellahi, 2009). According to Lewis and Heckman (2006), it is not easy to figure out the exact meaning of talent management as a result of the confusion with regard to the many definitions, assumptions and terms made by other authors on the topic. Furthermore, the practitioner-orientated literature has provided us with a few recent articles which describe “talent management” as “a mindset” (Creelman, 2004). It is also seen as an essential part of effective succession planning as well as a bid to guarantee that “everyone at all levels works to the top of their potential” (Redford, 2005). Many authors have not been successful in defining talent management. Ashton and Morton (2005) state that “there isn’t a single consistent or concise definition”. However, they acknowledge that “good TM is of strategic importance”. From a broad and analytical review of the literature on talent management in the academic and professional press, Lewis and Heckman (2006) identified three distinct perspectives of the term. The first perspective by Lewis and Heckman (2008) defines talent management as a group of human resource department functions, activities, practises or specialist areas including career and succession management as well as recruiting, selection and development. In this perspective, HR must manage...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/2046-9012.htm EJTD 36,1 Employability and talent management: challenges for HRD practices Staffan Nilsson Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and HELIX VINN Excellence Centre, ¨ Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linkoping University, ¨ Linkoping, Sweden, and 26 Received 14 May 2011 Revised 15 August 2011 Accepted 16 September 2011 ¨ Per-Erik Ellstrom HELIX VINN Excellence Centre, ¨ Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linkoping University, ¨ Linkoping, Sweden Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to illuminate the problems that are associated with defining and identifying talent and to discuss the development of talent as a contributor to employability. Design/methodology/approach – The world of work is characterised by new and rapidly changing demands. Talent management has recently been the target of increasing interest and is considered to be a method by which organisations can meet the demands that are associated with increased complexity. Previous studies have often focused on the management of talent, but the issue of what exactly should be managed has generally been neglected. In this paper, the authors focus on discussing the substance of talent and the problems associated with identifying talent by using...
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...product (food being served in the case of the restaurant) than the actual delivery of the service. 5. Why is communication within an organization an important part of the quality improvement process? - It is difficult to devise a coherent strategic plan relating to quality when communication is imprecise. One important attribute of a strategic plan is functional alignment or consistency. If different departments in a company understand quality differently, then the strategic plan will not be in alignment. Understanding that different definitions and dimensions of quality exist allows measures to be taken to provide a good basis for communication and planning. 7. Describe the “systems view” that underlies modern quality management thinking. Which of the perspectives of quality discussed in Chapter 1 Is most closely aligned with the systems view? - The...
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...Journal of Management 1999, Vol. 25, No. 3, 385– 415 Human Resources Management: Some New Directions Gerald R. Ferris University of Mississippi Wayne A. Hochwarter University of Alabama M. Ronald Buckley University of Oklahoma Gloria Harrell-Cook Mississippi State University Dwight D. Frink University of Mississippi The theory, research, and practice of Human Resource Management (HRM) has evolved considerably over the past century, and experienced a major transformation in form and function primarily within the past two decades. Driven by a number of significant internal and external environmental forces, HRM has progressed from a largely maintenance function, with little if any bottom line impact, to what many scholars and practitioners today regard as the source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations operating in a global economy. In this 25th anniversary Yearly Review issue, we conduct a less comprehensive and more focused review of the field of HRM. In doing so, we attempt to articulate some key concepts and issues that can be productively integrated with HRM to provide some interesting and important directions for future work, and consider ways to bridge the gap between the science and practice of HRM. © 1999 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. This 1999 Yearly Review marks the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Management, and indeed, over this quarter century, the organizational sciences have witnessed an evolution...
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...Human Resource Management 1. Executive Summary Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has established great in recent years in the fields of Human Resource Management (HRM). SHRM is the new concept for both the strategic management field and the human resource management field. The SHRM concept is based mainly on the HRM Practices, which are the main force driving organizational performance. SHRM is concerned with approaches to HRM practices as a critical strategic dimension affecting organization performance; which is the objective of this assignment. Strategic human resource management enhances organizational effectiveness and also productivity. The implementations of the HRM practices mentioned in this assignment are able to achieve their goals and objectives. This assignment on SHRM highlights its importance in TECO Electric and Machinery Pte Ltd. And it focuses on what best practices of strategic planning the organization can achieve organizational effectiveness and performance. 2. Introduction 2.1. Human Resource Management (HRM): Torrington, Hall and Taylor (2005, p.14) defines Human Resource Management is a series of activities which: first enables working people and the organization which uses their skills to agree about the objectives and nature of their working relationship and, secondly, ensures that the agreement is fulfilled. Armstrong (2008, p.5) defines HRM as a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization’s most valued assets...
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