Management Journal (2013) xxx‚ xxx– xxx journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/emj Challenges and strategies for global human resource executives: Perspectives from Canada and the United States Subramaniam Ananthram a‚* ‚ Christopher Chan b‚c a School of Management‚ Curtin Business School‚ Curtin University‚ Kent Street‚ Bentley‚ Western Australia 6102‚ Australia School of Human Resource Management‚ Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies‚ York University‚ 4700 Keele Street‚ Toronto
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products and processes; improving quality‚ productivity‚ and speed to market; and more importantly by improving their individual performance within the organization. In order to do this‚ a set of distinctive human resource strategies‚ defined as internally consistent bundles of human resource practices (Dyer & Reeves‚ 1995)‚ is clearly essential. Sparrow and Marchington (1998) suggested that HR practices are the most advanced‚ the most sophisticated‚ and the most efficient basis for organizing and
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Case Study Integrating McDonald’s Business‚ Human Resource‚ and Staffing Strategies People are McDonald’s most important asset. The company’s success depends on the satisfaction of its customers‚ which begins with workers who have the attitudes and abilities required to work efficiently and provide good customer service. To execute its growth strategy‚ McDonald’s has identified people as one of its three global corporate strategies. McDonald’s claims that as an employer‚ it wants “to
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2010‚ Managing Human Resources‚ 3rd edn‚ John Wiley & Sons‚ Milton‚ Qld. In chapter 1 of the text‚ the author shows an overview of human resource management and strategic human resource management. The author also shows the relationship between HRM and management‚ manager’s role meaning of strategy‚ strategic approach to HRM and strategic challenges. Lots of diagrams and explanations are used by the author. This chapter has contributed to my understanding of strategic human resource management by
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MSc – Human Resources Management Main Assignment “Flexible firm” as a Hotel’s Human Resource Planning Strategy Overview Human Resource Management (HRM) textbooks often begin their sections of “HRM practices / functions” by first introducing the topic of Human Resource Planning (HRP) and secondly the topic of Recruitment and Selection‚ while other topics such as Training and Development‚ Reward Management‚ Performance Management‚ etc‚ are introduced in later chapters. It is observed that this
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About KFC Colonel Harland Sanders‚ born September 9‚ 1890‚ actively began franchising his chicken business at the age of 65. Now‚ the KFC® business he started has grown to be one of the largest quick service food service systems in the world. And Colonel Sanders‚ a quick service restaurant pioneer‚ has become a symbol of entrepreneurial spirit. More than a billion of the Colonel’s "finger lickin’ good" chicken dinners are served annually. And not just in North America. The Colonel’s cooking is
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excellent human resource management. This report will analyze the human resource management and strategies of Volkswagen‚ and try to explain its success secret. Human Resource Management After Volkswagen AG established‚ it is almost 70 years. In these years‚ Volksvagen AG has developed from a small plant to an international automotive corporation. The Managers of this corporation has done many organizational strategies to complete the company-wide innovations. These organizational strategies lead
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*|*IT I* I ranr n (ji^Jp A typology of international human resource management strategies and processes Michael Dickmann and Michael MUller-Camen Abstract This paper develops a framework of international human resource management (lHRM) that moves bcyotid strategy and structtire to focus on proces.ses. The results of six case studies of large German multinational corporations in three countries show different conligurations of IHRM strategies and policies. International knowledge flows and coordination
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Human Resource Planning Human Resource (HR) Planning is the practice of determining and analysing the requirement for and supply of workforce in order to achieve the organisation’s goals and objectives‚ fulfil its mission and reach its vision (Mathis & Jackson‚ 2000). HR planning predicts forces that will affect the availability and requirement of employees in the future. This process will result in top executives having superior analysis
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Human resources management is a series of corporate human resource policy and management activities. These activities consist primarily of corporate human resources strategy development‚ staff recruitment and selection performance management‚ ‚training and development‚ compensation management‚ employee turnover management‚ employee relations management‚ employee safety and health management. : The use of modern management methods‚ (optional)‚ development (education)‚ keep (to keep people) and utilization
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