HGL Case study

Name: Hemnarayansingh Doorga

Module: SHRM

Tutor: Kristine Henry

Submission Date: 03/06/2013

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Halcrow Group’s strategy.

Halcrow Group Limited (HGL) is a consulting group specialised in planning, design and management of services for infrastructure development around the world. It operates through a network of 29 UK and 32 international offices. The company operates as four main business groups: consulting, property, transport and water. Those groups functions as a matrix structure across eight geographical regions around the world. HGL argues that it has a purpose instead of a mission statement. The purpose is to ‘sustain and improve the quality of people’s lives (Milmore, Lewis, Saunders, Thornhill and Morrow, 2007). Its purpose emphasises on series of values that are pivotal to the groups: skills and innovation, enjoying what we do, delivering within time and budget, codes of business behaviour, and business principles. The group operates with professional engineers who take pride in jobs well done. One of the competitive edges the company has embraced is technical excellence that has preceded its commercial success.

Linkages between Halcrow Group’s Strategy and its strategic human resource management.

In 2004 Halcrow initiated change within the organisational hierarchy that would change the way things are done both at domestic and international level. The group’s strategy is to sustain and improve quality of people’s lives. In order to