..................................................................................................... 4 OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................... 5 HR AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER .................................................................................. 5 A GLANCE AT STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ............................. 7 VARIOUS HR STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY ORGANIZATIONS ................................. 7 Fig 1 Strategic Framework for Human Resources .......................................................... 8 LOYAL SOLDIER (INTERNAL/COST HR STRATEGY) .............................................. 8 BARGAIN LABORER (EXTERNAL/COST HR SRATEGY) ......................................... 9 COMMITTED EXPERT (INTERNAL/ DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGY) .................. 10 FREE AGENT (EXTERNAL/DIFFERENTIATION HR STRATEGY) .......................... 10 ALIGNING HR STRATEGIES WITH COMPETITIVE BUSINESS STRATEGIES ......... 11 Table 1 Compitetive strategies and HR strategies ........................................................ 11 SHRM & ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE ........................................................... 12 DEVELOPING & IMPLIMENTING A HIGH PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEM (HPWS) ...................................................................................................................................... 14 Fig 2 Integrating Core functions to create a HPWS ..........................
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...Resources (HR) strategy aligns with the company’s business strategy and the job positions and responsibilities of the HR department. The paper will then address personal preferences and reasoning. Finally, the paper will discuss methods of improving Marriott’s competitive advantage and three ways they can increase diversity. Ensuring HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy One way a company can ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy is to organize the HR department to be a strategic entity. This would entail every aspect of HR – hiring, training, development, compensation, performance, etc. - being strategically focused in alignment with the business strategy of the organization. It will take effort and a realization that HR is more than administrative support. The definitive goal is for HR to support an organization through the management of human capital, which is the major subset of the broader organization’s strategy (Righeimer, n.d.). A more specific way to ensure the strategies are in alignment is to incorporate the company’s strategy into performance management. Goals are developed for personnel which incorporate the specific tasks necessary for each area to successfully complete in support of the vision. This assists in the accountability of employees in support of the business strategy and allows employees to see how they personally and specifically contribute to the success of the organization. And when employees...
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...Elements of Successful Organizational DiversityManagement Organizational Diversity Management Why is organizational diversity important? Historically, diversity in the workplace has been recognized as an employment equity issue. Now, however, diversity in the workplace is being recognized as a benefit that will contribute to an organization’s bottom line. Increased employee and customer satisfaction end up as increased productivity, all of which are measurable outcomes (Goff, 1998). Diversity goes beyond employment equity to nurturing an environment that values the differences and maximizes the potential of all employees, one that stimulates employee creativity and innovativeness (U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (U.S. MSPB), 1993). To create an organizational culture that supports workforce diversity involves several important elements. These elements include a needs analysis, administrative and management support and commitment, education and training, culture and management systems changes and continuous follow-up and evaluation. Needs Analysis In many of my resources, a needs analysis was the second crucial element after senior management support and commitment. I feel a needs analysis should be prepared first to provide information to senior management in sequestering their support as well as to adequately determine workforce and organizational needs for creating a ...
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...| | |Ethical Issues in HRM Strategy | | | |Raynor | | | |Dr. Morgan | | | |HRM 530 – Strategic Human Resource Management | | | |October 28, 2012 | | ...
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...foundation for the organizations structure. They establish all the organizations decisions when strategic planning is necessary. They are liable for finding ways to support the organization. Functions of management also include making sure that all other individuals associated with the organization have the information and understand the strategy; this includes problem-solving, decision making, collaboration, development and cost containment. Although, management strategizes the organizations plans they are also held accountable for the execution and overall outcome of the strategy. A successful outcome for an organization proves great managerial accomplishments. The organization that I am employed is a healthcare facility that specializes in home health aide. The functions of healthcare management apply to me because I am a part of the staff. When a manager specifies a strategic plan, it is my responsibility to help execute the plan hands on. Even though, management does all the strategic planning employees are obligated to the task involved achieving success. Organizations are not only based on managerial decisions but incorporate much-needed teamwork. Functions of management when managing others include decision-making and implementation of policies. A great manager has to ensure that all employees are competent and understand their role in making the organization successful. When managing a healthcare organization you have to relate to each. Amplifying the diversity of health care...
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...different cultures and people. From this, I have developed a main value in my heart, which the respect of diversity and respect from the others. It’s why I will be willing to adapt, share and integrate these values within a company. During all my internships and work experience, I have notice in French companies a lack of diversity and sometimes a lot of discrimination. This fact has jumped to my face when I was working as Human resources employee within a company that highlighted a policy of diversity and non discrimination which were in total adequacy with my values. This policy was completely different comparing to the company where I worked before, which was totally at the opposite in term of internal policy. In my deep and personal opinion I am totally convince that a policy of diversity and non discrimination could be considered as a key factor of success an organization. And I could resume this opinion in one sentence “Diversity and non discrimination within the company, social performance which drive to economic performance.” Its why according to my values that I think it’s very important to set up within an organization a policy of diversity and non discrimination. But this policy is a very wide concept it’s why I will only develop its main points. We could define this policy as “the testimony to the commitment of agencies in the prevention of discrimination, equal opportunity and promoting diversity within the human resources management.” This concept can include a...
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... o Equipping managers to lead a diverse workforce. o Managing diversity. • Methods: o Limit the content type to be from scholarly journal articles o Refine my search to be workplace diversity o Limited the date of publication to be most present. • Strategies to finding credible sources Finding credible sources are easy to find, but some credible sources sometimes can be difficult to find by digging through all sorts of websites. There are three great reliable credible resources which are the University online libraries, links from academic websites, and government or educational websites. These three credible resources are all safe to use for researching reliable information, and also give the researcher great references for what they researched. • Explain your strategies for finding credible sources. The strategies I used to find my credible sources was that the reliable sources I found where either journal articles, and government or educational websites, and using this strategy of having the opportunity to access these websites allow me to grasp accurate and credible research. • Write an annotated bibliography summarizing each article in 3 to 5 complete sentences and identify whether the source is primary or secondary. Diamante, T., & Giglio, L. (1994). Managing a Diverse Workforce.. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, (15), 13-17 This article is a primary source....
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...The role of diversity and inclusion plays a major role in my workplace for achieving organizational goals. The managers at my workplace uses strategies for managing and leveraging diversity. One strategy used by managers at my workplace to manage and leverage diversity is a recruitment and selection strategy. When my workplace hire new employees they take the extra effort to recruit and select individuals that can not only complete the work required for the job but also those who will help with the diverse atmosphere. This strategy is used to "capitalize on diversity". (Judge, 2011, p.56) Having a diverse atmosphere at my workplace adds to the culture of the company. Also the diversity and inclusion at my workplace is important because the customers that are involved with my company are a diverse group. This diversity and inclusion of employees is important for my company because it provides comfort for the customer base. The comfort is in knowing that you can see and communicate with people that share the same race, culture and sometimes background. At my workplace, working in groups and teams is very common and essential. The managers at my workplace take the necessary steps to ensure the work groups or teams are diverse. For example, if the managers are creating a team or group to accomplish an important organizational assignment, then they will analyze what needs to be done and assign team members accordingly. Most of the time these teams or groups consist of members...
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...Leadership for Diversity Management in Multinational Organizations Spring 2008 Introduction The objective of this paper is to emphasize the role of a leader in solving issues related to diversity management that challenge multinational organizations in the era of globalization. Shehata (2004) defines globalization as an increasing interconnectedness that involves “deepened and accelerated movement of information, capital, and people across the planet” (para. 6). The globalization process has been occurring for a number of centuries but its unprecedented growth in the twenty first century is altering the global economy and causing tremendous changes in the management and conduct of business and organizations. Globalization requires multinational organizations to eliminate borders and barriers of trade between nations resulting in a shift in traditional patterns of investment, production, distribution and trade. Due to elimination of geographical boundaries, multinational organizations face some unique cross-cultural people management challenges that can be addressed by effective diversity management initiatives. In this paper, I will present solutions to such unique issues from a hypothetical leader’s perspective. In the first section of the paper, I will explain the concept of diversity management through a thorough literature review, and propose an effective leadership style that can help to reinforce the affirmative action plans and foster diversity in multinational...
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...BEHS 220 (2152) Personal Action Plan for Diversity Consciousness 8 March 2015 Introduction Diversity is an ongoing discussion in day-to-day life. Not many situations occur without diversity having a role. There are a multitude of topics that introduces or involves diversity, to include age, sex, race, gender, ethnicity and so on. Prior to participating in this Diversity Awareness class, I’ve always thought diversity was more geared around discrimination and racism. Through weekly readings and discussions, I have discovered that diversity is much broader than that. There are many countries that are mixed culturally with people from all over the world, but none like the United States. The United States has the largest mixed culture in the world. Growing up in South Carolina I was exposed to different cultures, however I never fully witnessed some of the cultural things I’ve witnessed since joining the Army. My time in the Army has taken me places I never would have imagined and have exposed me to many different cultures. Reasons for taking BEHS Diversity Awareness I am pursuing a baccalaureate degree in Criminal Justice and it is required for me to complete 6 semester hours of Behavioral and Social Science courses. I’ve always been fascinated with understanding and learning more about...
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... Many organizations have to develop and implement programs that will attract qualified people to join their companies and offer rewards that will encourage them to stay. To stay competitive in today’s market management has to create programs that address issues such as organizational structure and culture, ethical conduct, diversity, and the continuing evolution of the global market. Analyze the leadership style(s) of a senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, etc.) in your current or previous organization who made a positive or negative impact on you. In my previous employment the company functioned under a combination of directive leadership and achievement-oriented leadership styles. Through the immediate manager employees were told exactly what is expected of them by receiving specific guidelines with information on how they were to perform their assigned tasks, they had a daily schedule on what are to be accomplish, and there were standards of performance in place to ensure that each employee followed the standard rules and regulations that governed the department. Also, the immediate manager will get with each employee and set some challenging goals with the understanding that expectations are high and that a significant level of confidence is placed in that individual to assume responsibility for each set goal and that extraordinary efforts will be put forth in order to accomplish them. The Chief Executive Officer of the company at the time of my employment was...
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...DEVRY SOCS 350 Complete Course – NEW 2015 http://www.spinwoop.com/?download=devry-socs-350-entire-course For Further Information And For A+ Work Contact US At SPINWOOP@GMAIL.COM SOCS 350N all discussions all you decide and full course projct but no quiz and final Discussion 1 Ethnocentrism is generally defined as viewing one’s own culture as superior to all others. However, quite often, it is not quite that obvious. Whenever we encounter something that seems strange or different, we will feel some degree of discomfort. How we respond to that feeling is a gauge of how ethnocentric we are about it. Let’s suppose that you are entertaining a business client from France. You take him to a very fine french restaurant where he looks over the menu very carefully, then asks the waiter if he or she, by chance, has cheval available. The waiter shakes his head and explains that it is not served in America. Your client becomes somewhat upset and tells you that a truly fine restaurant would serve “proper” cuisine, and that he was very disappointed with American hospitality so far. He eventually settles for the prime rib, but is ill-tempered for the rest of the evening. The next morning, he leaves for France without consummating the expected business deal. Your boss asks you what happened, and you explain that the client was upset because the restaurant didn’t serve something called cheval. Your boss nearly chokes on his morning coffee and asks, “You mean he actually...
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...test. The top ones are the strongest ones: • Fairness, equity and justice • Industry, diligence and perseverance • Judgment, critical thinking and open-mindedness • Leadership • Appreciation of beauty and excellence. My lowest score traits The following have been identified as my least attributes. I will start here by the lowest as per my scores. What it means is that this list is in reverse order: • Bravery • Forgiveness and mercy • Capacity to love and be loved • Social intelligence • Humor and playfulness According to the list above what it means is that I am poorest in bravery and valor. I am better in forgiveness and mercy than in bravery and valor. Am I in agreement? Yes I am in agreement with the results of the test I have taken. The only point where I do not think I am such low on is in mercy. I am a very merciful person, but sometimes it is a bit difficulty for me to forgive people who continuously are wrong to me. Those who commit offences once or twice and that is through mistakes, I am willing and able to forgive. I am in agreement in most of these attributes because what is explained is what usually what I do in my life. For example my first rated point is that of: fairness, equity and justice. I have these principles because of my religious orientations. In one of the courses I did, that is of human resources, these are the qualities that we have been taught as the most essential for management purpose as it relates to human resources. I put employees...
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...Homework Reflective Paper: Diversity, What Does It Mean to You? Today the world was radically changed from all sides. Things are not like in the past; all cultural fundamentals were upset by this change. Technological advances have also facilitates this situation; it helps and easily promotes peoples to move from a city to another one, from a country to another, from a continent to another. Obviously, it has brought closer people from diverse origins. Thus, the world has become a small village. People are forced to live together by ignoring or considering their differences such as race, religion, national origin, age, gender and disability based on equal representation, valuing differences, embracing others, respect, inclusion. We call this fact diversity. Taking in account diversity by organizations involved some considerations. That’s why implementing and managing diversity to be successful need adequate approaches. The term “Diversity” is not sound simple; it refers to a range of elements as mix, numerous, variety… Here, it means a huge, large composition of people from different origins and backgrounds. In the broadest sense, it also include race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, cognitive style, religion, social status, primary language, tenure, organizational function, education and more. Then, to effectively manage all this, we need to take in account many considerations and strategies to avoid frustrations and other consequences because it can harm or...
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...Managing Diversity in the Workplace One of the most important issues to emerge over the last 30 years has been the increasing diversity of the workforce. Diversity is dissimilarities-differences-among people due to age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, education, experience, physical appearance, capabilities/disabilities, and any other characteristic that is used to distinguish between people. (Hill. McGraw, 2006, p324). A main contributing factor in work place diversity is Immigration. Diversity in the workplace brought about through immigration can be a difficult subject for some companies’ managements to tackle. Continued use of diversity training and open communication with employees about companies’ reasons for hiring immigrants may help alleviate the problem. Managers are the key in learning and teaching those under them the importance of valuing different cultures in fellow employees and customers. The longevity of a business depends on being able to embrace different cultures and welcome the talent and ideas that could come from this diverse group of people. The primary issue that diversity must deal with is difficult for some to imagine and believe (i.e., showing diversity’s measurable impact on organizational strategy and the financial bottom line). The ability to utilize a diverse mixture of human and other resources to create a unique blend of strategy-focused solutions, by its very nature, creates an innovative...
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