Human Resource Management I The history of human resource management has reflected prevailing beliefs and attitudes held in society about employees‚ the response of employers to public policy (for example‚ health and safety and employment standards legislation) and reactions to trade union growth. In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in Britain‚ the extraordinary codes of discipline and fines imposed by factory owners were‚ in part‚ a response to the serious problem of imposing standards
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Why is strategic HRM so important for organisations? Explain how strategic HRM can be facilitated and how it can contribute to an organisation. Strategic HRM: can be defined as the linking of human resources with strategic goals and objectives in order to improve business performance and develop organizational culture that brings up innovation‚ flexibility and competitive advantage. Strategic HRM involves setting employment standards and policies. Moreover it is not any particular human resource
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and operational origins. Promoting the strategic significance of HRM has given HR Managers the opportunity to raise their status through developing HR strategies which link with corporate strategies. 12/08/2011 5 There are two broad approaches to linking HRM to strategy One approach advocates ‘best practice’ or ‘universalism’ and argues that firms will be better off if they adopt best practices in the way they y organise work and manage people‚ irrespective
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HRM GOALS HRM has three basic goals‚ which contribute to achieving management objectives: First goal is integration of HRM in two senses: integrating HRM into an organization’s corporate strategy‚ and ensuring an HRM view in the decisions and actions of line managers. Integration in the first sense involves selecting the HRM options consistent with (and which promote) the particular corporate strategy. The option is determined by the type of employee behavior expected (e.g. innovation)
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effectiveness depends on they’re being a tight ‘fit’ between human resource and business strategies. Human resource as could be said is all about making business strategies work. It is therefore important that emphasis is placed on how to best match and develop ”appropraite” human resource management (HRM) approach/system of managing people in the tourism hospitality and leisure industry (THL). This easy would therefore be looking at some of the HRM approaches used such as the Harvard model; hard
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com/0142-5455.htm ER 25‚3 Line manager involvement in HRM: an inside view Douglas Renwick Management School‚ University of Sheffield‚ Sheffield‚ UK 262 Received September Keywords Line management‚ Employee relations‚ Strategy‚ Human resource management 2002 Revised December 2002 Abstract Although line managers have always been involved in managing human resources Accepted December 2002 (HR)‚ it is within human resource management (HRM) that their involvement has been placed centre-stage as
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Study Question: Contrast the best-fit with the resourced based approach to human resource strategy. Sabrina Kuschminder Essay Globalisation and the rapid growth in technology and communication changed the competitive environment of companies‚ because they compete against foreign firms‚ both domestically and abroad (Gómez-Mejía et al. 2007 and Wright‚ P. 2008) and nowadays the global presence by itself is not enough to guarantee global competitive advantages (Gupta and Govindarajan 2001)
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Assignment 1 Question 1 i. Name and describe in your own words two such HRM challenges as discussed in class. (4 marks) Two of the challenges are technology and motivation. Technology challenge is a new change that HRM has to face when working in a corporate. Advanced technology changes HR practices such as recruitment‚ training and collecting information and so on. To specific‚ HR uses technology to work more efficiently than before. Therefore‚ in the information age‚ HR has to know how to
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The Data Protection Act 1998‚ prevents Marks and Spencer’s from using their customer’s personal information. If Marks and Spencer did not follow this law then their customers will not be fully protected. Also any information about Marks and Spencer’s customer can only be kept for a specific period of time. If Marks and Spencer’s don’t comply with this law then they will start to lose customers as all customers want their details to be protected as they don’t want their credit cards to be stolen etc
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1.1 Rationale The area of research was chosen due to the author working in a factory in Morocco‚ manufacturing clothing solely for Marks and Spencer. The eight months spent in the factory were very insightful into retailer-manufacturer relationships as the author got an inside view from the manufacturers point of view. The author’s knowledge of Marks and Spencer’s well documented good relationships with their suppliers and manufacturers (Bevan‚ 2001) contradicted what was actually being observed
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